Citizenship, Activism and the City: The Invisible and the Impossible

ISBN-13: 9780815351535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 126 str.

Patricia Burke Wood

Opis

This book examines post-crisis protest as a global yet intensely local movement. It reframes the theorization of both protest and of the city, in local and global contexts. It bridges four key ideas: human rights discourse and citizenship practice; political economy and social geography approaches to understandings of the city; "post-political" literature and the history of politics and protest; and Marxist and anarchist ideas about the time and space of politics. This book adopts a unique approach to provide new theoretical insights and challenges to post political thinking.

Spis treści

Introduction: The invisibile and the impossible 1. What we talk about when we talk about Occupy: Politics and citizenship in crisis 2. Radical politics and the 'post-political' critique 3. Sad, sick and diva citizens: Resistance, refusal and urban space 4. The arc of politics

O autorze

Patricia Burke Wood is Professor of Geography at York University, Toronto, Canada.