Politicizing In/Security, Transnational Resistance, and the 1919 Riots in Cardiff and Liverpool

Featherstone, David

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“…Similarly, the paper notes smaller acts of violence, as well as more general conditions, which reflected a wider presence of racism within the places considered. As commented on further below, this links with critical thinking around race, violence and the political (Hall et al, 1978;Featherstone, 2018;Kelliher, 2020). Given the salience of racialised violence and the emotive nature of reviving such histories, we begin our discussion with reflections on a theoretical framework to understand such moments.…”

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The 1919 ‘race riots’ – Within and beyond exceptional moments in South Shields and Glasgow

Griffin

Martin

2021

Political Geography

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The 1919 ‘race riots’ – Within and beyond exceptional moments in South Shields and Glasgow

Griffin

Martin

2021

Political Geography

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“…3 Mutinies on these vessels represent a paramount form of insurgent politics. Geographers such as Featherstone (2009Featherstone ( , 2018 and Davies (2013Davies ( , 2019 point to the longer term and more broadly spatialised political trajectories that inform mutinies beyond just seeing them as disputes narrowly confined to the ship. Assessing such mutinies through reconstructing the problem-space in which they occurred aligns with these efforts to produce more relational understandings of these events.…”

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Thinking problem‐space in studies of revolt and archival methods

Gowland

2023

Geography Compass

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This article engages with Jamaican anthropologist David Scott's conceptual analytic of problem-space and maps out the potential contributions problem-space thinking can make to geographical studies of revolt and protest as well as archival methods. Scott's theory is broadened spatially through the introduction of space-time geographies scholarship and in particular the spatial ontology of Massey. I suggest Scott's theory can compliment and advance the work of political and historical geographers seeking to produce more broadly spatialised and temporalised accounts of insurrections and political protests. Problem-space thinking also develops efforts to recover subaltern voices and political motivations in such studies both empirically and methodologically.

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“…Yet violence from and between workers, even narrowly defined, has undoubtedly been a feature of labour activism. This has taken complex and sometimes clearly reactionary, including racialised and gendered, forms (Featherstone, 2018; Jenkinson, 2008). Physical force has certainly been used around picket lines and industrial disputes.…”

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Class struggle and the spatial politics of violence: The picket line in 1970s Britain

Kelliher

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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The late 1960s to the mid‐1980s in Britain was a period of intense industrial struggle, with strike levels at their highest since the 1920s. Concerns surrounding trade union power became central to broader anxieties about British “decline” and “crisis.” These issues took a spatial form in conflicts around the nature of the picket line. This paper discusses the picket line in 1970s Britain in the context of recent debates on the geographies of violence, particularly in relation to questions of class and property, and the mutually constitutive temporalities of structural and direct violence. Rather than focusing on the diffuse processes of an abstract capitalism, I argue for greater attention to be paid to class conflict in shaping experiences and epistemologies of violence. This paper therefore places more emphasis on agency in the production of violence than has been prevalent in recent debates in geography. Drawing on extensive archival research, the paper focuses on three key disputes in this period. Building on work in labour geography, it explores how the assertive working‐class presence of mass pickets were portrayed as violent through an account of the miners' strike in 1972. It then considers a similar process in relation to flying pickets during the 1972 builders' dispute, emphasising the threat of a politicised working‐class mobility. Finally, the paper considers the coercive state response in the violent policing of the picket line during the 1976–8 Grunwick dispute. The radical right‐wing project of neoliberalism emerged in part as a solution to the perceived threat of the labour movement; critical to its success and consolidation was challenging the “enemy within” of militant trade unionism. These violent class struggles around picketing in the 1970s, I argue, are crucial for understanding the long‐term, structural violence of neoliberalism.

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Politicizing In/Security, Transnational Resistance, and the 1919 Riots in Cardiff and Liverpool

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

The 1919 ‘race riots’ – Within and beyond exceptional moments in South Shields and Glasgow

The 1919 ‘race riots’ – Within and beyond exceptional moments in South Shields and Glasgow

Thinking problem‐space in studies of revolt and archival methods

Class struggle and the spatial politics of violence: The picket line in 1970s Britain

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