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Citizenship, Activism and the City : The Invisible and the Impossible, Paperback / softback Book

Citizenship, Activism and the City : The Invisible and the Impossible Paperback / softback

Part of the Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics series

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Were the occupations of 2010–11 – from Spain to Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street – a success or failure?

Are they the model for urban radical politics? This book challenges common understandings and underlying assumptions of what constitutes activism and resistance.

It proposes a critical urban theory of politics and citizenship that is grounded in the city as it is inhabited.

For those who are marginalized, the city is a double-edged sword of oppression and emancipation.

This book argues for an intersectional approach that actively dismantles hierarchies and embraces a wider range of acts of resistance and creative transformation, one in which we recognize these acts of citizenship as a form of constitutionalism.

Wood reframes the theorization of protest and of the city, 'post-political' literature and the history of protest, and Marxist and anarchist ideas about the time and space of politics.

Through this, she adopts a unique approach to provide new theoretical insights and challenges to post-political thinking. This book will be valuable reading for those interested in political, urban and social geography, in addition to political economy and progressive politics in the urban context.

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