Staging Equality in Greek Squares: Hybrid Spaces of Political Subjectification

Karaliotas, Lazaros

doi:10.1111/1468-2427.12385

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“…The Squares movement in Greece is the empirical focus of Karaliotas's () article in this issue. Although his analysis is centred on Syntagma Square in Athens, he contextualizes it within the broader dynamics and practices of square occupation, the history of radical politics and the regulation of urban space in Greece.…”

Section: An Urban Political Agenda: What This Symposium Is Aboutmentioning

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Theorizing the Politicizing City

Dikeç

Swyngedouw

2017

Int J Urban Regional Res

127

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This introductory symposium article develops a framework for an urban political reading and a theorization of urban uprisings. We argue that there is a need to foreground the notion of the urban political as central to the theoretical and practical demands of urban research today. First, we revisit critical urban theory in light of recent urban insurrections and point out a lack of sustained theoretical engagement with the political. Second, based on this critique, we argue for what we call a ‘re‐centring of the urban political' to rethink urban theory in ways that consider the city as a site of political encounter, interruption and experimentation, even when, or perhaps especially when, these ways fall outside institutional forms or lack the organizational form or legitimacy of social movements. Thus, we attempt to place politics at the heart of radical urban political theory and practice today in order to make sense of urban subjects, events and claims that elude established government practices and institutionalized structures.

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Section: An Urban Political Agenda: What This Symposium Is Aboutmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorizing the Politicizing City

Dikeç

Swyngedouw

2017

Int J Urban Regional Res

127

109

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“…The Rancierian perspective on political subjectivation, the police order, and the political has found fertile ground in geography, urban studies and planning (Dikeç, 2005;Haughton, Allmendinger and Oosterlynck, 2013;O'Callaghan, Boyle and Kitchin, 2014;Swyngedouw, 2009Swyngedouw, , 2011Swyngedouw, , 2014Temenos, 2017). Urban protests represent one of the main topics analysed through this lens (Garcia-Lamarca, 2017a, 2017bKaraliotas, 2017). For instance, Kaika and Karaliotas (2016) have emphasized the spatial character of the political through an analysis of the occupation of Syntagma square in Athens, which embodies a possible encounter between the police and the political, i.e.…”

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Struggles over property in the ‘post-political’ era: Notes on thepoliticalfrom Rome and Dublin

Feliciantonio

O’Callaghan

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Geographical analyses on protests against austerity politics using the framework of post-politics have proliferated in recent years, mostly building on the work of Jacques Rancière and his conceptualisation of the political and the police order. The paper continues this tradition but seeks to move beyond those analyses reducing the political gesture to a ‘rare’ and ‘heroic’ act. It does so by bridging the work of Rancière with the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, developing two main arguments. The first one concerns the local and situated dimension of the political moment; the second concerns the dialectical relation between the police order and its disruption, while at the same time viewing insurgent acts as part of a chain of perpetual acts that destabilise the police order, which moreover are the inevitable outcome of its excess. These theoretical arguments are developed in relation to the analysis of the trajectory of disruptive politics around vacant property in Dublin and Rome. In both cities, several contentious political initiatives around property emerged as a response to the crisis and austerity politics, but they were unable to translate into bigger movements. To account for this, the paper identifies two main factors: the limited violence of the crisis in terms of evictions and foreclosures, and the instrumental use of ‘legality’ and ‘rules’ by the police order. Nevertheless, we argue, activist engagements with vacant property can be considered as examples of ‘world forming’ that create the possibilities for further disruptive politics.

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“…In this regard, both contemporary and historical geographers have unsurprisingly been interested in the sites in which solidarity is enacted (Kelliher, ). Work on resistance to austerity in Greece, for instance, has emphasised the centrality of urban squares in this process, while research on the anti‐apartheid movement has explored the picket of the South African embassy in 1980s London (Arampatzi, ; G. Brown & Yaffe, ; Karaliotas, ). Both the anti‐apartheid picket and the squares movements were comparatively short term.…”

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Historicising geographies of solidarity

Kelliher

2018

Geography Compass

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This article evaluates two of the most productive recent areas of research in the historical geographies of solidarity: first, work relating to class and the labour movement; and second, debates clustered around race and colonialism. The two are, of course, not entirely distinct, and there has been much useful thinking at their intersections. I suggest that questions of mobility have been crucial in thinking about the formation of diverse solidarities across geographical and social boundaries. The article looks at how relationships can both be developed across differences of gender, race, and sexuality and how solidarities can be used to entrench forms of oppression and inequities of power. Thinking about this issue through the concept of intersectionality, I argue, would be a useful way of engaging with such questions. I suggest three areas which could be developed further. First, there is potential for a greater engagement with theoretical debates around the nature of solidarity itself. Second, historical geographers could pay more attention to the role of memory and “usable pasts.” Finally, I argue that more ambitious historical narratives, framed within wider social processes, would allow us to make broader arguments about how solidarity develops over time.

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Staging Equality in Greek Squares: Hybrid Spaces of Political Subjectification

Cited by 42 publications

References 42 publications

Theorizing the Politicizing City

Theorizing the Politicizing City

Struggles over property in the ‘post-political’ era: Notes on thepoliticalfrom Rome and Dublin

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