Geographies of resistance

Timetable

1.12 (Monday) 13:15 

8.12 (Monday) 13:15 

15.12 (Monday) 13:15 

12.1 (Monday) 13:15 

19.1 (Monday) 13:15 

26.1 (Monday) 13:15 

29.1 (Thursday) 15:00 

Module aim (aims)

The aim of the module is to familiarize students with the concept of resistance in human geography and its role in social life and urban management.

 

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Non-applicable

Syllabus

 

 

Week 1: Introduction (main terms and origins of resistance)
Week 2: Geographies of resistance
Week 3: Resistance and its impact on the place
Week 4: Place-based conflicts
Week 5: Place as a scenography for resistance
Week 6: Place as an actor in resistance
Week 7: Case studies and discussion
Week 8: Summary

Reading list

Castells, M. (2015). Networks of Outrage and Hope. Social Movements in the Internet Age. Polity Press.

Cresswell, T. (2004). PLACE a short introduction. Blackwell Publishing.

Cresswell, T. (2013). Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell.

Gül, M., Dee, J., & Nur Cünük, C. (2014). Istanbul’s Taksim Square and Gezi Park: The place of protest and the ideology of place. Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 38(1), 63–72. https://doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2014.902185

Hayes, T. J. (2017). #MyNYPD: Transforming Twitter into a Public Place for Protest. Computers and Composition, 43, 118–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2016.11.003

Hughes, S. M. (2020). On resistance in human geography. Progress in Human Geography, 44(6), 1141–1160. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519879490

Kotus, J., Sowada, T., Rzeszewski, M., & Mańkowska, P. (2019). Anatomy of Place-Making in the Context of the Communication Processes: A Story of One Community and One Square in a Post-Socialist City.

Routledge, P. (2017). Space Invaders: Radical Geographies of Protest. Pluto Press.