Title: Everyday activism and transitions towards post-capitalist worlds
Abstract: Transactions of the Institute of British GeographersVolume 35, Issue 4 p. 475-490 Everyday activism and transitions towards post-capitalist worlds Paul Chatterton, Paul Chatterton School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JTemail: [email protected] for more papers by this authorJenny Pickerill, Jenny Pickerill Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RHSearch for more papers by this author Paul Chatterton, Paul Chatterton School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JTemail: [email protected] for more papers by this authorJenny Pickerill, Jenny Pickerill Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RHSearch for more papers by this author First published: 22 June 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00396.xCitations: 185Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract This article aims to broaden and deepen debates on the everyday practices of autonomous activists. To do this we present three main research findings from a recent research project that looked in detail at what we called ‘autonomous geographies’. First, in terms of political identity, we highlight how participants in political projects problematise and go beyond the simple idea of the militant subject, set apart from the everyday who opposes the present condition. Second, we highlight how everyday practices are used to build hoped-for futures in the present, but that this process is experimental, messy and contingent, and necessarily so. Finally, we illuminate the contested spatialities embedded within political activism that are neither locally bounded nor easily transferable to the transnational. This exploration of everyday activism has illuminated that the participants we engaged with express identities, practices and spatial forms that are simultaneously anti-, despite- and post- capitalist. We argue that it is through its everyday rhythms that meaning is given to post-capitalism and it is this reconceptualisation that makes post-capitalist practice mundane, but at the same time also accessible, exciting, feasible and powerful. This paper draws upon material collected during a 30-month empirical research project into the everyday lives of grassroots, non-party political activists in the UK between 2005 and 2008. Three case studies were explored in detail – autonomous social centres, Low Impact Developments, and tenants’ networks resisting gentrification. Citing Literature Volume35, Issue4October 2010Pages 475-490 This article also appears in:Geographies of Co-Production RelatedInformation
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Publication Date: 2010-06-22
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