Contemporary articulations of dissent to social order and its production of truth cannot be ignored any longer. Hamburg, during the G20 gathering, Washington D.C. on the day of Trump’s inauguration, the squares and streets of Paris and Tunis at the end of 2018. Public space is temporarily taken by those who rise against the powers that keep structural oppression and social order in its place. Not only riots, collective social centres, protest camps and temporary as well as permanent occupations of lands and buildings are other, utopian spatial alternatives created by autonomous social movements to prefigure a horizontal social organisation.This book discusses spatial practices of autonomous social movements, the movements who “see their everyday experiences and creations as the revolution they are making”, together with these movements and in taking the diversity of their articulations into account. Sites of Dissent is thus the story of a daring attempt to create research for radical transformation which requires a radical transformation of research practices. During this attempt, methodological rules of scientific research are broken, methodological heresy and wild experimentation with research practices take place.Sites of Dissent aims at opening new possibilities of including diverse ways of knowing and speaking into a collective knowledge creation process, at overcoming the individualised isolation in which the researcher produces knowledge about the outside world; and it aims to create a space for collective learning about spatial practices of autonomous social movements, to learn with and from the movements.
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This book discusses spatial practices of autonomous social movements.
IntroductionChapter 1. Nomad Science and Sites of DissentChapter 2. Studying Autonomous Social Movements: A CollageChapter 3. Horizontal Participatory Action ResearchChapter 4. Sites of DissentChapter 5. Collective AnalysisChapter 6. Lines of Flight towards HorizontalityConclusionsAppendix AAppendix BAppendix CReferences
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ISBN
9781538146330
Publisert
2021-10-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield
Vekt
517 gr
Høyde
231 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
206
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Biographical note
Alissa Starodub is a Graduate Researcher at the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.