Geographies Of Resistance Research Articles

Detailing spaces and processes of resistance: Working women in Dundee’s jute industry

Recent and ongoing calls within labour geography and social and cultural geography have highlighted the importance of resistance, its spatial productions and manifestations. However, within this work, the geographical history of the factory system has been largely overlooked. Drawing upon Foucauldian theorisings in the fields of management and organisation, together with recent writings on the geographies of resistance, this paper takes Dundee’s jute industry at the turn of the twentieth century as its focus and explores how the workplace itself, and the very workplace discipline used to ensure a productive, efficient and hardworking workforce, engendered workplace protest among the industry’s working women. Writing through a number of modes and scales of protest within the workplace, within and between work groups, departments, mills and factories, and across the city, this paper adheres to an approach that carefully details the spaces and processes of resistance, paying careful attention to how union and non-union resistances operated and the geographies they worked through and created.

Atlantic networks, antagonisms and the formation of subaltern political identities

This paper engages with historians Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker's account of the connections and circulations which they argue constituted a multi-ethnic Atlantic working class in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Linebaugh and Rediker 1991, 2000). Their stories of the mobile, networked insurgencies that traversed the early modern Atlantic challenge accounts of the geographies of resistance and labour which treat ethnicities as given and sealed, view subaltern movements as trapped in place and privilege the boundaries between spatial scales. This paper sketches some preliminary aspects of an agenda for thinking spatially the political identities constituted through Atlantic resistances. The paper foregrounds the multiple antagonisms constituted through Atlantic subaltern resistances to explore three aspects of the formation of subaltern political identities in the early-modern Atlantic. Firstly, how the spatial relations of Atlantic networks were brought into contestation through subaltern struggles. Secondly, the plural and mobile character of antagonisms between and within subaltern groups. Finally, the paper explores how subaltern agency and identities were formed in relation to the materialities of Atlantic networks. These arguments are developed through discussion of subaltern resistances in and between Ireland, Newfoundland, the West Coast of Africa, the Virgin Isles and London in the eighteenth century.

'Vagrants Wearing Make-up': Negotiating Spaces on the Streets of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Since the start of the financial crisis in late 1997, there has been a significant increase in the numbers of children living and working on the streets of Indonesia, including a dramatic rise in street girls. All street children are marginalised by the state and mainstream society, and this is reflected in the marginality of the spaces they occupy in the streets. In Indonesia, street children are seen by mainstream society to be committing a social violation, as their very presence contradicts state ideological discourse on family values and ideas about public order. Such an offence justifies the 'cleaning up' of children from the streets, arrests, imprisonment and, in some extreme cases, torture. This paper seeks to explain how girls in particular suffer discrimination on the streets, and how their social position is doubly marginal to that of street boys. This is because they are seen to be actively violating the construction of femininity in mainstream discourse, where the street is 'no place for a girl', an ideology that street boys also adhere to. By examining the lives and experiences of a group of street girls, the paper describes how they are not passive victims of the male gaze, but survivors who actively reject the roles society expects of them. Their behaviour patterns are explained as survival mechanisms that are articulated through their style, income-earning activities and the production of street girl identities. The paper shows how street girls negotiate social and personal spaces that are different from those of boys, and how they have succeeded in creating their own gendered sense of place on the street. These socio-spatial patterns are explained as 'geographies of resistance', which are a response to the pervasive patriarchal discourse within Indonesian society, a society which believes that girls, in particular, should not be on the streets.

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: New Frontiers in Space, Bodies and Gender, RosaAinley (Eds.). Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano, Geographies of Resistance, Steve Pile and Michael Keith (eds.), BorderMatters: Remapping American Cultural Studies, Jos David Saldvar BorderTheory: the Limits of Cultural Politics, Scott Michaelsen and David E. Johnson, (eds.)

Reviews: Geographies of Resistance: Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies, the Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. The Power of Identity. Volume II, the New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City, Contested Countryside Cultures: Otherness, Marginalisation and Rurality, Urban Policy in France: The Contrat De Ville, the Work in the World: Geographical Practice and the Written

Reviews: Geographies of Resistance: Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies, the Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. The Power of Identity. Volume II, the New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City, Contested Countryside Cultures: Otherness, Marginalisation and Rurality, Urban Policy in France: The Contrat De Ville, the Work in the World: Geographical Practice and the Written

Reviews: Geographies of Resistance, Archeticture: Ecstasies of Space, Time, and the Human Body

Reviews: Geographies of Resistance, Archeticture: Ecstasies of Space, Time, and the Human Body

Book Reviews: Formations of Class and Gender, Single Mothers in an International Context: Mothers or Workers?, Introducing Contemporary Feminist Thought, Cultural Studies in Question, Video Critical: Children, The Environment and Media Power, The End of Knowing: A New Developmental Way of Learning, Realistic Evaluation, Modern Social Theory: Key Debates and New Directions, The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organization,

Book Reviews: Formations of Class and Gender, Single Mothers in an International Context: Mothers or Workers?, Introducing Contemporary Feminist Thought, Cultural Studies in Question, Video Critical: Children, The Environment and Media Power, The End of Knowing: A New Developmental Way of Learning, Realistic Evaluation, Modern Social Theory: Key Debates and New Directions, The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organization,