This seminar forms part of the 'Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Research Theme'.
Rarely is geography itself considered a constitutive stake of political struggle. How do social movements inscribe their claims into the world? How do they inscribe the world into their claims? And how do they reassemble the elements of geography to create a world within which their claims might be made intelligible and effective?
Drawing on evidence from Jordan and Palestine, this paper situates social movements within place-and-world making (and deeply intertwined) projects of colonialism and commodification, suggesting how they mobilize elements of the material world to establish alternative relations of power, economy and significance, and counter-geographies of possibility. The paper is not primarily concerned with the constitution of relations within space, but with the constitutive relationality of space itself—the ways in which place and world are co-produced in ways that make some political claims intelligible and effective at the expense of others.
Event Details
Speakers: Dr Christopher Parker, Ghent University
Chair: Professor Fran Tonkiss, LSE
Date: Tuesday 26 April 2016
Time: 17:15-19:15
Event Hashtag: #LSEParker
Location: Room 9.04, Tower 2, Clement's Inn, LSE
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Speaker
Christopher Parker is an Associate Professor of Political Studies at Ghent University. He is a senior fellow of the Ghent Center for Global Studies, and an associate of the Middle East and North Africa Research Group.