Spatial Politics by Featherstone, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Series Page Title page Copyright page List of Figures Notes on Contributors Foreword Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements

The Lipman–Miliband Trust

Introduction

Space, Politics and Radical Democracy Regions, Labour and Uneven Development Reconceptualising Place Political Trajectories

Part One: Space, Politics and Radical Democracy

Chapter One: Space, Hegemony and Radical Critique

Introduction Critique as Withdrawal From Critique as Hegemonic Engagement With Conclusion

Chapter Two: Theorising Context Chapter Three: Power-Geometry as Philosophy of Space

Introduction Space as Open and Closed Doreen Massey’s Philosophical Geography Power-topology For Marx Conclusions

Chapter Four: Spatial Relations and Human Relations

Introduction The Categories of Space and Time Relational Approaches in Psychoanalysis Space and Time in Psychoanalysis Space-Time Relations in Geography and Relational Approaches in Psychoanalysis

Chapter Five: Space, Democracy and Difference: For a Post-colonial Perspective

Introduction The Imperial Context Democracy and the Geopolitics of Difference For a Post-colonial Perspective on Democratic Politics Concluding Remarks

Part Two: Regions, Labour and Uneven Development

Chapter Six: Spatial Divisions and Regional Assemblages

Introduction Questioning the Assumptions Conceptualising Spaces and Places Re-thinking London and the South-East What Is a Region? Conclusion: Relational Thinking and Regional Assemblages

Chapter Seven: Making Space for Labour

Introduction Labour, Divided Recovering Agency Turning Points

Chapter Eight: The Political Challenge of Relational Territory

Introduction Conceptualising Territory Territory as a Portion of Space Territory as a Portion of Relational Space Territory as a Bounded Portion of Relational Space

Interlude: Your Gravitational Now

Epilogue

Part Three: Reconceptualising Place

Chapter Nine: Place and Politics

Introduction Politics in Place The Politics of Place Politics and Place

Prologue Wendy Harcourt: Space, Place and the Body Politics of Development Questions for Wendy Alice Brooke Wilson: Food Politics and Geographies of Sustenance Questions for Alice Brooke Arturo Escobar: Relational Ontologies and Geographies of Responsibility Questions for Arturo Dianne Rocheleau: Rooted Networks and Geometries of Power Questions for Dianne

Chapter Twelve: A Physical Sense of World

Introduction A Relational World Beyond the Social Conclusions: Beyond the Divide

Part Four: Political Trajectories

Introduction Myth, Politics and Relational Space-Time Simultaneity and Linearity in Aotearoa New Zealand Claims Making – Open and Closed spaces A Closing and an Opening: Towards a Progressive Politics of Place in Aotearoa New Zealand?

Chapter Fourteen: Doreen Massey: The Light Dances on the Water

Introduction Habitat Ecology Cultivation Conclusion

Chapter Fifteen: Place, Space and Solidarity in Global Justice Networks

Introduction Global Justice Networks, Flat Ontologies and Geographies of Responsibility Spatiality, Responsibility and Solidarity Place, Territory and History in the Politics of Social Movements Conclusion

Introduction The Geographical Time-Space as a Social Dimension Traditional Approaches to the Spatial Theme Direct Democracy: An Alternative Model for Addressing the Problem Hegemony and Power Geography as a Component of Revolutionary Strategy

Chapter Seventeen: Place Beyond Place and the Politics of ‘Empowerment’

Introduction Place Beyond Place Flows and Counter-flows Recombining Local and Global: Demonstrating that There Is an Alternative The Struggle over Alternative Futures – a Local yet Global Experience Who Is Empowered? A Different Kind of State Enabling the Market versus Strengthening Democratic Control The Challenges of the GLC’s Unfinished Business

References Index