Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance
Title | Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Hesketh |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2017-12-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 082035175X |
Based on original fieldwork in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, this book offers a bridge between geography and historical sociology. Chris Hesketh examines the production of space within the global political economy. Drawing on multiple disciplines, Hesketh’s discussion of state formation in Mexico takes us beyond the national level to explore the interplay between global, regional, national, and sub-national articulations of power. These are linked through the novel deployment of Antonio Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution, understood as the state-led institution or expansion of capitalism that prevents the meaningful participation of the subaltern classes. Furthermore, the author brings attention to the conflicts involved in the production of space, placing particular emphasis on indigenous communities and movements and their creation of counterspaces of resistance. Hesketh argues that indigenous movements are now the leading social force of popular mobilization in Latin America. The author reveals how the wider global context of uneven and combined development frames these specific indigenous struggles, and he explores the scales at which they must now seek to articulate themselves.
Spaces of Hope
Title | Spaces of Hope PDF eBook |
Author | David Harvey |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780520225787 |
"There is no question that David Harvey's work has been one of the most important, influential, and imaginative contributions to the development of human geography since the Second World War. . . . His readings of Marx are arresting and original--a remarkably fresh return to the foundational texts of historical materialism."--Derek Gregory, author of Geographical Imaginations
Spaces of Global Capitalism
Title | Spaces of Global Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | David Harvey |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Total Pages | 161 |
Release | 2019-03-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1788734653 |
Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy. David Harvey is the single most important geographer writing today and a leading social theorist of our age, offering a comprehensive critique of contemporary capitalism. In this fascinating book, he shows the way forward for just such an understanding, enlarging upon the key themes in his recent work: the development of neoliberalism, the spread of inequalities across the globe, and ‘space’ as a key theoretical concept. Both a major declaration of a new research programme and a concise introduction to David Harvey’s central concerns, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.
Resistance and the City
Title | Resistance and the City PDF eBook |
Author | Christoph Ehland |
Publisher | Brill |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Cities and towns in art |
ISBN | 9789004369184 |
Resistance and the City focuses on the diverse strategies of resistance and subversion that challenge the stability of the hegemonic order of urban communities.
Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas
Title | Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Téllez |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2021-10-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0816542473 |
Near Tijuana, Baja California, the autonomous community of Maclovio Rojas demonstrates what is possible for urban place-based political movements. More than a community, Maclovio Rojas is a women-led social movement that works for economic and political autonomy to address issues of health, education, housing, nutrition, and security. Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas tells the story of the community’s struggle to carve out space for survival and thriving in the shadows of the U.S.-Mexico geopolitical border. This ethnography by Michelle Téllez demonstrates the state’s neglect in providing social services and local infrastructure. This neglect exacerbates the structural violence endemic to the border region—a continuation of colonial systems of power on the urban, rural, and racialized poor. Téllez shows that in creating the community of Maclovio Rojas, residents have challenged prescriptive notions of nation and belonging. Through women’s active participation and leadership, a women’s political subjectivity has emerged—Maclovianas. These border women both contest and invoke their citizenship as they struggle to have their land rights recognized, and they transform traditional political roles into that of agency and responsibility. This book highlights the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as a space of resistance, conviviality, agency, and creative community building where transformative politics can take place. It shows hope, struggle, and possibility in the context of gendered violences of racial capitalism on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Geographies of Resistance
Title | Geographies of Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Pile |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780415154963 |
Drawing on material from around the world this book attempts to explore how new geographies of resistance emerge and are articulated. New geographical spaces which have arisen out of different forms of resistance are explored.
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Title | Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | David Harvey |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Total Pages | 207 |
Release | 2012-04-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1844678822 |
Manifesto on the urban commons from the acclaimed theorist.