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:  Articulations of climate justice were central to the diverse mobilisations that opposed the Copenhagen Climate Talks in December 2009. This paper contends that articulations of climate justice pointed to the emergence of three co‐constitutive logics: antagonism, the common(s), and solidarity. Firstly, we argue that climate justice involves an antagonistic framing of climate politics that breaks with attempts to construct climate change as a “post‐political” issue. Secondly, we suggest that climate justice involves the formation of pre‐figurative political activity, expressed through acts of commoning. Thirdly, we contend that climate justice politics generates solidarities between differently located struggles and these solidarities have the potential to shift the terms of debate on climate change. Bringing these logics into conversation can develop the significance of climate justice for political practice and strategy. We conclude by considering what is at stake in different articulations of climate justice and tensions in emerging forms of climate politics.

This paper explores the spatialities constructed through resistances to globalization. It focuses on the Inter-Continental Caravan, an ambitious project which united activists from the Indian New Farmers Movements with West European green activists in contesting neo-liberal institutions and biotechnology. The paper argues that these political activities constructed distinctive 'maps of grievance'. This term is used to suggest that the construction of grievances has both a distinctive spatiality and is constitutive of political identities. The paper argues that the different maps of grievances generated through the project were both a condition of possibility for these transnational alliances and exerted pressure on the formation of solidarities. It concludes by arguing that the location of counter-globalization politics at the intersection of different routes of resistance can be integral to the formation of alternative political imaginaries. key words counter-globalization politics India geographies of resistance antagonism contested environments solidarities

This paper argues that rejecting a bounded notion of past struggles can generate stories that resonate with the diverse and spatially stretched resistances to neoliberal globalisation. It explores some of the routes and connections which made up subaltern struggles in eighteenth-century London. It uses these stories to position militant particularisms as mobile, as the product of interrelations and as actively negotiating spatial relations rather than as fixed, bounded, origins of political struggles. The final section of the paper uses this re-imagining of militant particularisms to address key tensions in counter-globalisation politics. The paper argues that choices between local or global resistance are false and destructive of political possibilities. It contends that connections between different place-located struggles are crucial to opposing exclusionary nationalist oppositions to globalisation.

A decade has passed since Katharyne Mitchell (1997) famously called for a reinsertion of geography into research and writing on transnationalism. This plea, for the 'contextualization' of prevalent discourses around transnationalism, emerged from a concern that an overzealous and overly abstract celebration of travel and hybridity neglected the broader structures and unequal power relations that underpin contemporary forms of mobility (Mitchell 1997). Migrants were frequently seen as 'transgressive' by simple virtue of their mobility and the materiality of their transnational practices was consequently lost from these accounts. Early work on transnationalism followed a coterminous fashion within the social sciences and humanities more broadly through its use of spatial metaphors (Voigt-Graf 2004). While these metaphors adopted the language of geography, little was said about the ongoing concerns of many geographers with the mundaneness of everyday human experiences and the 'interconnectedness of material and metaphorical space' (Seager 1997; Smith and Katz 1993: 68).This special issue seeks to open up a set of conversations between the concerns of recent work on transnational practices and debates in geography (and beyond) on the spatial construction of social relations. These ostensibly diverse bodies of work have sought to transcend the limits set by restrictively nation-centred accounts of the political, cultural and social. They have also sought to mobilize social relations without losing focus of the situated character of practices -grounded through particular sites, networks and flows. Both sets of work have been involved in reconceptualizing nations, regions and places as key sites in sets of flows and networks, rather than as fixed containers of political and cultural activity. Through the issue we seek to develop productive exchanges between these bodies of work.In this special issue we build on a number of interventions in transnational practices and the spatial construction of social relations (see Anderson 2002;Jackson et al. 2004; Olsson and Silvey 2006;Yeoh et al. 2003). We contend, however, that the implications of thinking about the spatialities of transnational practices have not been explored fully, either in theoretical or empirical terms. By spatialities we mean the diverse ongoing connections and networks that bind different parts of the world