Place and the Politics of Identity

by Steve Pile (Editor)

In the last two decades, new political subjects have been created through the actions of the new social movements; often by asserting the unfixed and `overdetermined' character of identity. Further, in attempting to avoid essentialism, people have frequently looked to their territorial roots to establish their constituency. A cultural politics of resistance, as exemplified by Black politics, feminism, and gay liberation, has developed struggles to turn sites of oppression and discrimintion into spaces of resistance.
This book collects together perspectives which challenge received notions of geography; which are in danger of becoming anachronisms, without a language to articulate the new space of resistance, the new politics of identity.

Genres: Theory

244 pages, Paperback

First published September 9, 1993

Reviews

[Malcolm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many of the papers in this collection are more theoretical that empirical, but all seek to challenge and problematise issues of identity, place and spatiality. Although in many case more obviously theoretical, all draw on solidly gorunded empirical evidence to make their cases. I keep coming back to this collection.