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, but 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 organization. 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 practices for
radical transformation which requires a radical transformation of
research practices. During this attempt, methodological rules of
scientific research are broken, and 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 individualized 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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Nomad Science and Contentious Spatial Practice
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781538146354
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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