Poetics Of Resistance Research Articles

Re-Claiming Place: The Millennium Forest, Borgie, North Sutherland, Scotland

In this paper I explore the metaphorical and material significance of the Millennium Forest at Borgie in the context of an emerging movement for the collective purchase of private estates in the crofting areas of Scotland. My argument focuses, first, on the means whereby the Forest, as visual art, is constituted as a site through which what Edward Said calls a ‘culture of resistance’ is mobilised and through which an inclusive sense of belonging to place is imagined. Second, I connect the poetics of resistance of the Forest with the politics of territorial land claims of the North Sutherland Community Forestry Trust, whose objective is to reverse ongoing processes of dispossession through the collective ownership and management of the 3000–hectare Borgie Forest which the one-hectare Millennium Forest borders.

The Poetics of Resistance

The Poetics of Resistance

The Poetics of Resistance: Heidegger's Line

The Poetics of Resistance: Heidegger's Line

A Poetics of Resistance: Narrative and the Writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini

A Poetics of Resistance: Narrative and the Writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini

A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States

A survey of the empowering poetry of politically active women in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States.

Reviews

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