Thinking problem‐space in studies of revolt and archival methods

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AbstractThis article engages with Jamaican anthropologist David Scott’s conceptual analytic of problem‐space and maps out the potential contributions problem‐space thinking can make to geographical studies of revolt and protest as well as archival methods. Scott's theory is broadened spatially through the introduction of space‐time geographies scholarship and in particular the spatial ontology of Massey. I suggest Scott's theory can compliment and advance the work of political and historical geographers seeking to produce more broadly spatialised and temporalised accounts of insurrections and political protests. Problem‐space thinking also develops efforts to recover subaltern voices and political motivations in such studies both empirically and methodologically.