111 research outputs found
Political education in protest camps: spatialising dissensus and reconfiguring places of youth activist ritual in Mexico City
No full textThis chapter examines how young protest campers in post-1968 Mexico City engage in political education to the effect of reconfiguring places of ritualized activism and cultivating spaces of politics. The analysis identifies two countervailing processes: 1) political education creatively drawing on material and symbolic resources that sediment in places to intensify political antagonism, and 2) political education paradoxically reifying sedimented identities and vocabularies through which state power is exercised. The focus on young protest campers channelling their activism through categories by which the 1968 student movement and its repression are commemorated reveals that this mode of social reproduction may maintain a police order protest campers ostensibly converge to disrupt. It also shows that, for young people channelled along a lifecourse trajectory towards adulthood, political education may enable young activists to creatively articulate solidarities for more thoroughgoing disruption of state power.</p
The Punitive City: Privatized Policing and Protection in Neoliberal Mexico by Markus-Michael Müller
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The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Toward Spatial Emancipation
No full textIn 1882, conservative Parisian journalist Abert Delpit commented on the endorsing speech Élisée Reclus pronounced at the “free union” ceremony of his daughters Magali and Jeannie, who publicly celebrated the fact they went to live with two young men without any legal sanction from a mayor or a priest. Given that this event raised a huge scandal in French mainstream press, Delpit tried to explain the contradiction between the generalized praise of Reclus as a world-famous scientist and his deprecation as an “immoral” anarchist, by addressing Reclus's “psychological profile.” Delpit argued that Reclus's wanderings across mountains and forests, and his studies of the Earth's great phenomena, had thrown him in a sort of psychopathological condition that he called l'ivresse de la géographie (the inebriation of geography)
"To see things in an objective light": the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Ongoing Construction of Settler Colonial Landscapes
No full textThis paper examines the discourses used by proponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) as claims of universality in relation to which the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and allied activists mounted a movement of opposition in 2014–2017, in the historical context of Lakota and Dakota resistance to settler colonialism, which has endured since the nineteenth century. From publicly available texts circulated by key actors in the conflict over the construction of this pipeline project, we identify themes that proponents of this project drew upon to articulate their representations of the land as universal. We suggest that claims like these, when naturalized in practice, have historically materialized in settler colonial landscapes. With the concept of settler colonial landscapes, we focus on ways of seeing and representing places that have facilitated the dispossession of Indigenous people from their territory as well as the construction of a settler-dominated community. In this way, we develop a cultural geographical understanding of the ongoing construction of settler colonial landscapes as a process dependent on claims to neutrality and objectivity
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