Fleshing out the geographies of social movements: Colombia's Pacific coast black communities and the ‘aquatic space’

Oslender, Ulrich

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2004.05.025

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“…For example, Glassman's (2001) insightful analysis of resistance movements to neoliberal globalisation discusses multiple socio‐spatial practices, but his conceptual framework focuses on scale and scale jumping by local activists. Similarly, in analysing black social movements in Colombia, Oslender (2004) subsumes scale, networks of spatial connectivity and mobility under the concept of place.…”

Section: Co‐implicated Spatialities: the Immigrant Workers’ Freedom Ridementioning

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The spatialities of contentious politics

Leitner¹,

Sheppard²,

Sziarto

2008

Trans Inst British Geog

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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.

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Section: Co‐implicated Spatialities: the Immigrant Workers’ Freedom Ridementioning

confidence: 99%

The spatialities of contentious politics

Leitner¹,

Sheppard²,

Sziarto

2008

Trans Inst British Geog

470

374

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“…Fernandes ), a “sustained effort” in this sense “failed to coalesce until recently”, as Nicholls accurately wrote (contributions made by Latin American geographers after the 1990s include, among others, Porto‐Gonçalves , ; Souza , ; as far as the Anglophone academic world is concerned, see e.g. Chatterton ; Hodkinson and Chatterton ; Marston ; Oslender ). However, these contributions made by geographers of different continents and countries have not been influential enough (yet) to change the general perception of other social scientists that geographers are “latecomers” (in the best of all cases) in so far as social movements research is concerned.…”

Section: Insurgent Spatial Practices Autonomy and Horizontality: Thementioning

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Lessons from Praxis: Autonomy and Spatiality in Contemporary Latin American Social Movements

Souza

2016

Antipode

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In the course of the 20th century, left-libertarian thought and praxis never ceased to be present in Latin America, even during the most difficult years of competition with Marxism-Leninism and of military repression. But it was above all from the 1990s onwards that particularly original kinds of libertarian thought and praxis began to flourish there. Alongside more or less renewed versions of classical anarchism, new forms of praxis and analysis emerged at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century; from Mexican neo-Zapatism to a part of Argentina's piqueteros to some expressions of Brazil's sem-teto movement, many new movements and ideas have developed in the last two decades. These new movements are at the same time remarkably libertarian and by no means reducible to the very honourable but somewhat too restrictive label "anarchism". In fact, many of them are clearly "hybrid", in the sense that they are products of both leftlibertarian and Marxist influences. Typically, these Latin American movements share a commitment to principles such as horizontality, self-management and decentralism (which have never been part of Marxism's typical repertoire of practices and principles); moreover, autonomy is a key notion for most of them. Furthermore, spatial practices, territorialisation among them, are proving decisive for many movements and protest actions. The concept of territory is one of those "geographical" concepts that have been intensely subjected, in recent decades, to strong attempts of redefinition and debugging. In this paper, the territory is fundamentally seen (as a first approximation) as a space defined and delimited by and through power relations, and it is important to see that power (both heteronomous and autonomous power) is exerted only with reference to a territory and, very often, by means of a territory. The kind of power exerted by emancipatory social movements does not constitute an exception to this rule. Resumo: No decorrer do século XX, o pensamento e a práxis da esquerda libertária nunca deixaram de estar presentes na América Latina, mesmo durante os anos mais difíceis da competição com o marxismo-leninismo e da repressão durante os regimes militares. Porém, foi sobretudo a partir da década de 1990 que alguns tipos particularmente originais de pensamento e práxis libertários começaram a florescer naquele continente. Juntamente com as versões mais ou menos renovadas do anarquismo clássico (como o assim chamado "anarquismo especifista"), novas formas de práxis e análise libertárias mas não propriamente anarquistas surgiram no final do século XX e início do século XXI: dos neozapatistas mexicanos a uma parte dos piqueteros na Argentina e a algumas expressões de movimento dos sem-teto no Brasil, muitos novos movimentos e ideias têm se desenvolvido nas últimas duas décadas. Esses novos movimentos são, ao mesmo tempo, notavelmente libertários e não redutíveis ao (muito honrado, certamente, mas demasiado restritivo) rótulo de "anarquismo". Na verdade, muitos deles são, inclusive, clar...

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“…Smith contends that in this marginal location, close to the water’s edge (and ‘normal’ society’s edge), people were able to establish ‘alternative ways of living’ (2007, 55). In a similarly themed paper, Oslender (2004) examines the establishment of black communities along river basin sites. David Atkinson and Eric Laurier turned the assumption of sea space as marginal space on its head, in their study that examined the removal of traveller groups from edge spaces as the official Bristol ‘International Festival of the Sea’ approached (Atkinson and Laurier 1998).…”

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Future Promises for Contemporary Social and Cultural Geographies of the Sea

Peters

2010

Geography Compass

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Seventy per cent of the Earth’s surface is sea. Yet, until recently social and cultural geographers have failed to pay much attention to this aspect of the world in which we live, with the most notable contributions deriving from historical perspectives. This study examines the work characterising this area of research before outlining possible reasons for the failure of consistent and comprehensive examination of the seas and ships for social and cultural geographers who take a more contemporary focus. The sea has been typically understood as inferior to and marginal from the land and invisible in modern consciousness, yet it is nonetheless a vital space and one that is integral to the workings of the world as we currently know it. This study travels through the ways in which modern‐day examinations of the maritime world are developing before outlining future promises that are surfacing for more contemporary social and cultural geographies of the sea. The study offers an overview of the relationship between social and cultural geography and the sea, contending by way of a conclusion for a greater volume of contemporary work considering maritime spaces to expand and deepen geographic understandings of the watery world.

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Fleshing out the geographies of social movements: Colombia's Pacific coast black communities and the ‘aquatic space’

Cited by 91 publications

References 24 publications

The spatialities of contentious politics

The spatialities of contentious politics

Lessons from Praxis: Autonomy and Spatiality in Contemporary Latin American Social Movements

Future Promises for Contemporary Social and Cultural Geographies of the Sea

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