Protesting at the crossroads: Framing ‘in-between places’ in spatial analyses of contention

McGahern, Una

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.04.006

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“…38 Our case study reveals how such politics can also be effectuated on a smaller scale and by people tied by transgenerational communal bonds. It also points to the process of de-centring contentious practices in Israel/Palestine, creating new 'geographies of protests' 39 which stretch outside the city, including into rural contexts. 40 The informal place-based activism in Iqrit clearly demonstrates that a physical presence on an expropriated land (crucial, given the Israeli settler colonialism preoccupied with land acquisition and removal of existing populations), together with a mundane performance of 'normalcy' 41 in the ruined village, can count as a political act.…”

Section: Presencementioning

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Spaces of fluidity: articulating ‘politics of presence’ through place-based activism in Iqrit (Israel)

Golańska

Woźniak-Bobińska

2023

cultural geographies

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This article engages with the material geographies of colonialism in Israel/Palestine by looking at the site-specific cultural activities in Iqrit (Israel), a Christian-Arab village depopulated during the 1948 war in the region. We investigate the importance of material infrastructure – and material, bodily encounters with the site – as a basis for the place-based activist memory-work, as well as exposing the ways in which such activities contribute to the advancement of ‘the politics of presence’, understood as a manifestation of a continuous resilience vis-à-vis the discriminatory policy of the state. Our argumentation focuses on the importance of physical presence in specific geographical areas, shedding light on how place-based activities may contravene the expressed state policy by increasing the fluidity of the territory, creating spaces of contestation in which the traditional understandings of state authority partly dissolve. It also explores how the material reconfigurations of the place, and emotional-bodily investment in it, contribute to the semantic instability of the site, turning the place-based memory-work into a future-oriented project with important political aspirations.

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Section: Presencementioning

confidence: 99%

Spaces of fluidity: articulating ‘politics of presence’ through place-based activism in Iqrit (Israel)

Golańska

Woźniak-Bobińska

2023

cultural geographies

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“…A border wall has existed for decades and Trump's reiteration of border wall discourse for political mobilization is nothing new, borders have often been used as a rhetorical device to convey divisions, not just movement (Agnew, 2008). Borders serve as liminal physical markers to divide space and people (McGahern, 2017), and that is exactly what Trump's border wall has done. Dichotomies tend to form around border issues and position people as either for or against an issue.…”

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Straddling the Wall: Comparative Framing of Trump’s Border Wall in U.S. & Mexican Newspapers

Rodriguez

Maio

2021

J Ethn Cult Stud

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Donald Trump’s most notorious promise before and during his presidency was the construction of a border wall. The issues surrounding new construction of Donald Trump’s border wall (both physically and rhetorically) are complex and the outcomes are difficult to predict. The study examines how Trump’s border wall was framed in online newspaper publications of the international border cities of San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, and in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Specifically, the study employs a comparative framing analysis using the John Agnew’s (2008) theoretical lens of borders as equivocal spaces of dwelling that bring about both benefit and harm — the standard of a decent life. The analysis revealed the frames of: Mexico will pay for the wall; DACA as leverage; political contention; protest and dissention; environmental impact; immigration package; separation and divisiveness; safety and security; and economic consequences. A majority of the content published in the U.S. was produced locally, however, most of the content published in Mexico was from news agencies, except for the opinion pieces that were locally produced for outlets on both side of the border.

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“…Azoulay (2012:15) is amongst those researchers to argue that the camera should be seen as an object creating 'powerful forms of commotion and communion' rather than a mere tool used by eyewitnesses. In her study of the spatial dimensions of political contention, McGahern (2017) asserts that the reality of the protest space is shaped by the movement of people around the physical location, as well as its spatial configurations. As discussed previously, there is a clear link be-tween factors such as space affordances and the relationships between the participants, and how protest events are reported by the news media.…”

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The importance of space in photojournalists' accounts of the anti-austerity protests in Greece

Veneti¹,

Reilly²,

Lilleker³

2021

The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism

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Protesting at the crossroads: Framing ‘in-between places’ in spatial analyses of contention

Cited by 14 publications

References 53 publications

Spaces of fluidity: articulating ‘politics of presence’ through place-based activism in Iqrit (Israel)

Spaces of fluidity: articulating ‘politics of presence’ through place-based activism in Iqrit (Israel)

Straddling the Wall: Comparative Framing of Trump’s Border Wall in U.S. & Mexican Newspapers

The importance of space in photojournalists' accounts of the anti-austerity protests in Greece

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