2009/06/06 URP International Colloquium

Date: June 6th 2009
Site: Campus Port Osaka: Room G

"Unbounding urban geography: The example of environmental justice"
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Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard
(Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, USA)

Abstract：
The question of how space matters to the mobilisation, practices and
trajectories of contentious politics has frequently been represented as a
politics of scale. Others have focused on place and networks as key
spatialities of contentious politics. Yet there are multiple spatialities -
scale, place, networks, positionality and mobility - that are implicated in
and shape contentious politics. No one of these should be privileged: in
practice, participants in contentious politics frequently draw on several
at once. It is thus important to consider all of them and the complex ways
in which they are co-implicated with one another, with unexpected
consequences for contentious politics. This co-implication in practice, and
its impact on social movements, is illustrated with the Immigrant Workers'
Freedom Ride in the United States.

Keywords：
contentious politics, social movements, spatialities, immigrant rights, activism
　

Prof Eric Sheppard
AHelga Leitner