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Author:   Richard J. White ,  Simon Springer ,  Marcelo Lopes de Souza
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9781783486649

ISBN 10:   1783486643
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   29 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Performing Anarchism, Practising Freedom, Pursuing Revolt, Richard J. White, Simon Springer, and Marcelo Lopes de Souza / 1. Anarchist Geographies in the Rural Global South, Navé Wald and Doug Hill / 2. Anarchist City? Sir Patrick Geddes’ 1925 Anarchist Housing-Based Plan for Tel Aviv, and the Housing Protests of 2011 and Beyond, Yael Allweil / 3. Contesting Imperial Geography: Reading Elisée Reclus in 1930s’ Hokkaido, Nadine Willems / 4. Organizing the APOCalypse: Ethnographic Reflections on an Anarchist People of Color Convergence in New Orleans, Louisiana, Patrick W. Huff / 5. Anarchism, Social Order and the City in Portugal between the End of the Nineteenth Century and the First Decades of the Twentieth Century, Diogo Duarte / 6. The Global Hiroba: Transnational Spaces in Tokyo’s Anti-nuclear Movement, Catherine Tsukasa Bender and Alexander Brown / 7. The Battle for the Common Space, from the Neoliberal Creative City to the Rebel City and Vice Versa: the Cases of Athens, Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Izmir, Matina Kapsali and Charalampos Tsavdaroglou / 8. Spatial Anarchy in Gezi Park Protests; Urban Public Space as Instrument of Power and Resistance Towards an Alternative Social Order, Murat Cetin / 9. Banging on the Walls of Fortress Europe: Tactical Media, Anarchist Politics, and Border Thinking, James Ellison /10. Democracy, Agency and Radical Children’s Geographies, Toby Rollo / Index

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Updating the concepts of freedom and revolt is a major merit of The Practice of Freedom, especially in the present moment, a period full of black clouds for humanity. The particular importance of this book is that it ties emancipation to revolt, where the first is viewed not as a place of arrival (or even a new world), but a matter of what we do every day to be free and outwit the oppressors. -- Raul Zibechi White, Springer and Lopes de Souza's The Practice of Freedom sizzles with incitement. The essays gathered here document spatial practices that are decentralized and elegantly dis-organized - a series of sprawling spatial possibilities that stretch like a necklace of hope around the globe, from Israel and Argentina to Japan and Portugal, from the countryside to the city, and through a range of historical periods. Together, the practices recorded here prefigure a world animated always by love, autonomy, and revolt. Ultimately this fine book reminds us that it is indeed possible to do the impossible, to live the way we wish the world to be - to find the practice of freedom - but only if we do so collectively, courageously, and with a shared commitment to the ongoing unraveling of authority. -- Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University and University of Kent

Updating the concepts of freedom and revolt is a major merit of The Practice of Freedom, especially in the present moment, a period full of black clouds for humanity. The particular importance of this book is that it ties emancipation to revolt, where the first is viewed not as a place of arrival (or even a new world), but a matter of what we do every day to be free and outwit the oppressors. -- Raul Zibechi

Author Information

Richard J. White is Reader in Economic Geography at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Simon Springer is Associate Professor of Geography at University of Victoria, Canada. Marcelo Lopes de Souza is Professor of Geography at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.

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