Place and the Politics of Identity

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 7
WHY THINK ABOUT PLACE, POLITICS AND IDENTITY?......Page 9
THE SPATIAL VOGUE......Page 10
QUESTIONS FOR MAPPING THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY......Page 13
Transparent landscapes: the myth of spatial immanence......Page 15
Anything goes? The perils of spatial relativism......Page 16
A dog’s breakfast: the political economy of regenerating the docks......Page 19
The resistances of Docklands’ people: different spaces, different politics......Page 22
DIASPORIC POLITICS AND POST-COLONIAL AUTHORITY......Page 24
FROM IMAGINATION TO POLITICS TO REALITY…AND ALL THE WAY BACK AGAIN......Page 28
ROUTE 1: THE CASE FOR MULTIPLE SPATIALITIES......Page 30
ROUTE 2: ‘TAKING PLACE’—THEORIZING CONTINGENCY AND RADICAL CONTEXTUALIZATION......Page 34
SESTINATION: MULTIPLE SPATIALITIES, RADICAL CONTEXTUALIZATION, INCOMPLETE IDENTITIES, AMBIVALENT EPISTEMOLOGIES......Page 39
Locations of struggle......Page 42
Communities of resistance......Page 43
Political spaces......Page 45
REFERENCES......Page 46
HAMLET, NORTH CAROLINA......Page 49
THE POSTMODERN DEATH OF JUSTICE......Page 55
THE RESURRECTION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE......Page 61
Breaking out of the local......Page 62
Situating ‘situated knowledges’......Page 65
CLASS RELATIONS, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE......Page 68
CONCLUSIONS......Page 70
REFERENCES......Page 72
THE REASSERTION OF SPACE......Page 74
METAPHOR AND FAMILIARITY......Page 75
Althusser and Foucault......Page 78
Absolute space......Page 81
THE POWER OF SPATIAL METAPHOR......Page 83
CONCLUSION......Page 86
NOTES......Page 87
REFERENCES......Page 88
5 LOCATING IDENTITY POLITICS......Page 90
IDENTITY POLITICS: PROGRESSIVE CHALLENGE OR REACTIONARY CELEBRATION?......Page 91
 FREUD AND MARX: DECENTRED SUBJECTS OR POLITICAL AGENTS?......Page 93
FEMINISM AND IDENTITY POLITICS......Page 97
PLACE AND ESSENCE......Page 103
NOTES......Page 105
REFERENCES......Page 106
6 WOMEN’S PLACE/EL LUGAR DE MUJERES......Page 108
NOTES......Page 119
REFERENCES......Page 120
7 READING ROSEHILL......Page 123
LOCATING ROSEHILL......Page 124
READING ROSEHILL......Page 131
Community, identity and story-telling......Page 134
NOTES......Page 143
REFERENCES......Page 144
8 POLITICS AND SPACE/TIME1......Page 147
SPACE AND TIME......Page 149
Radical geography......Page 151
Issues of gender......Page 152
An alternative view of space......Page 160
NOTES......Page 165
REFERENCES......Page 166
INTRODUCTION......Page 168
HETEROGRAPHIES OF SETTLEMENT......Page 171
RACIAL ANTAGONISMS AND DISLOCATIONS......Page 177
National insides-outside......Page 178
Diasporic out sides-inside......Page 181
BLACK JOURNEYING: A TEMPORARY CONCLUSION......Page 182
REFERENCES......Page 185
10 THE SPACES THAT DIFFERENCE MAKES......Page 188
ON THE DIFFERENCES THAT POSTMODERNITY MAKES......Page 189
THE SPATIAL TURN IN THE NEW CULTURAL POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE......Page 194
FROM MODERN GEOGRAPHY TO POSTMODERN GEOGRAPHIES......Page 201
NOTES......Page 205
REFERENCES......Page 208
11 QUANTUM PHILOSOPHY, IMPOSSIBLE GEOGRAPHIES AND A FEW SMALL POINTS ABOUT LIFE, LIBERTYAND THE PURSUIT OF SEX (ALL IN THE NAMEOF DEMOCRACY)......Page 211
11a THE SPACE OF THE NOT-SPACE (OR WHAT’S SO INTERESTING ABOUT QUANTUM PHILOSOPHY)......Page 213
11b CORRUPTIBLE INFINITUDES AND THE ‘WHAT OUGHT TO BE’......Page 216
11c DEMOCRATIC CELLS, MEMORY AND THE QUESTION OF THE URBAN-CITY......Page 221
NOTES......Page 222
REFERENCES......Page 224
ETHICAL, EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND AESTHETIC GEOGRAPHIES......Page 225
SPACE, BOUNDARIES AND CLOSURE......Page 227
SPATIALITY, HYBRIDITY AND RADICAL POLITICS......Page 228
…AND FINALLY......Page 229
REFERENCES......Page 230
INDEX......Page 231