David Featherstone
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 640494 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Featherstone |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Featherstone |
| FIRMA | FEATHERSTONE D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5196-2486 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 790 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Solidarity, Worldmaking and Inter-Connected Geographies of Authoritarianism
This paper intervenes in debates around the relationship between solidarity and worldmaking in the context of decolonisation and the Cold War. While work on worldmaking has drawn attention to key aspects of solidarity formation in this context (e.g. Getachew, 2019; Kelley, 2019), to date it has offered a limited engagement with the role of labour in the articulation of such solidarities. Here, we demonstrate how such a focus on worldmaking can he…
Labor, Democracy, and the Postcolonial State
This article examines the democratic political praxes and contestations developed by trade unions in relations with the postcolonial state in both the Global North and South. Our work is informed by the scholarship of Richard Iton on the postcolonial duppy state and notions of the colonial past haunting the postcolonial present through the rearticulation of racialized, imperial labor regimes and relations in a postcolonial context. We engage with…
Solidarity against the odds
A discussion on the challenges facing trade union activists in the light of the government's determination to create a hostile environment for trade unionists as well as people of colour - including the ways in which intersectionalities of race and class play out in the workplace and the labour movement. Topics discussed include: how and why people get involved in unions - and how to maintain their interest in the face of sometimes outdated pract…
The crisis in higher education
The term “miscarriage” used in this book is a metaphor for systemic failures, flaws, and unethical practices within higher education institutions (HEIs) that hinder students from realizing their academic dreams. These miscarriages can be in the form of institutional structures, policies, and everyday practices that often hinder students' academic progress and even end their journey before it even begins. To say that miscarriage in higher educatio…
Branch life
Two members of the King&'s College London branch of the University College Union (UCU) discuss the union's long-running national dispute over the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), as well as more local disputes they have been involved with at the College level. Their actions over conditions within King's - including on equalities issues, specifically child care issues, London weighting and institutional democracy - illustrate how a branch…
Maritime Labour, Circulations of Struggle, and Constructions of Transnational Subaltern Agency
This paper explores the relations between maritime labour, the circulation of struggles between different sites, and constructions of transnational subaltern agency. It does this through engaging with the interconnected strikes of Indian merchant seafarers in ports and ships across the British Empire in the Autumn of 1939. These strikes broke out after the outbreak of the Second World War and were in part mobilised against the racialised inequali…
Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic brings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The volume introduces new perspectives on the intellectual trajectories of well-known figures and critical activists including C. L. R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter…
Geography Matters! [Audio podcast episode]
Full of Power
Knowledge and politics can be produced in a wide variety of places: a car, football terraces, picket lines, council estates. Doreen Massey was dedicated to popular education. In this introductory episode, we discuss the importance of intellectual spaces beyond the university
Reflections on the spaces of populist politics in Europe
A discussion of the record of left- and right-wing populist parties in Europe in response to the austerity policies that followed on from the financial crisis of 2007-8, focusing both on the populist right and on the trajectories of Syriza and Podemos. Questions discussed include: the issue of definition - whether populism is more than a mobilising strategy/understanding it as a hybrid political practice; what happens to left populist parties whe…
Colours of democracy
This paper locates trade union banners and those of other campaigns and left organisations as part of the ongoing work and labour of producing democratic political cultures. It argues that engaging with the ways in which they were used, shaped, produced and re‐worked can shed important light on often neglected spatial practices and forms of agency of democratic politics. We contend that engaging with the geographical imaginaries and practices sha…
The Red and the Black
This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and various black radical traditions
Introduction
In this introduction we first set out an engagement with the interconnections between forms of anti-politics and spaces of politicization and how these are figured in the special issue. We then detail the ways the papers in the special issue examine questions of depoliticization and politicization of austerity. The final section briefly outlines some key ways in which we envision emergent lines of progressive politicization emerging from the left
Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective
Hitler's seizure of power and the transnational anti-fascist movement in the Nordic countries
Reading Clive Barnett's The Priority of Injustice
Subaltern Geographies
From Out of Apathy to the post-political
This paper offers an alternative approach to some of the temporalising logics and imaginaries which have dominated debates around the post-political and post-democracy. It does this through engaging with the writings of figures associated with the 'First New Left' notably Stuart Hall and E.P. Thompson between 1956 and 1962. I argue that their essays in texts such as Out of Apathy bear some striking similarities with the claims of literatures rela…
Special issue introduction
This article introduces the key contributions of the special issue on 'Maritime networks and transnational spaces'. It draws attention to three key thematics that the papers develop. These are a set of engagements between law, space and maritime networks; a set of questions around maritime spaces, subaltern histories and transnational networks and finally a set of concerns around the forms of 'geopolitical literacy' articulated by maritime actors…
Maritime labour, transnational political trajectories and decolonization from below
This article uses a discussion of struggles over attempts by the National Union of Seamen to exclude seafarers from the maritime labour market in the inter-war period to contribute to debates at the intersection of maritime spaces and transnational labour geographies (cf. Balachandran 2012; Høgsbjerg 2013). By focusing on struggles engendered by the British Shipping (Assistance) Act of 1935, I explore some of the transnational dynamics through wh…
Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket
Challenging the spatial politics of the European crisis
This paper explores the potential for the formation of political solidarities across the spatial divisions being intensified by dominant responses to the European crisis. In doing so, it takes inspiration from Doreen Massey’s thinking around the contested terms on which space and politics are articulated and her engagement with the 2008 crisis through projects such as the Kilburn manifesto. We argue that her book World city powerfully articulates…
Rehearsing the state
No abstract available
Politicizing In/Security, Transnational Resistance, and the 1919 Riots in Cardiff and Liverpool
This essay contributes to work on the contested racialized articulations of conjunctures by engaging with the spatial practices through which racialized in/securities became politicized in the period after the First World War. It explores the forms of opposition to riots against multiethnic communities in Cardiff and Liverpool in 1919 through tracing the significant transnational connections and routes that shaped resistance to this violence, doi…
Corporations and Local States
This entry engages with some of the key ways in which the relations between corporations and local states have been understood by economic and political geographers. We trace the emergence of research on the corporations–local states nexus in relation to debates on local economic development. We explore how these concerns have developed to cover a broader range of state practices, corporate strategies, and forms of social and political mobilizati…
Reading Andy Pike’s origination
Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives
Spatialities of transnational resistance to globalization
This paper explores the spatialities constructed through resistances to globalization. It focuses on the Inter‐Continental Caravan, an ambitious project which united activists from the Indian New Farmers Movements with West European green activists in contesting neo‐liberal institutions and biotechnology. The paper argues that these political activities constructed distinctive ‘maps of grievance’. This term is used to suggest that the constructio…
Articulating Climate Justice in Copenhagen
Articulations of climate justice were central to the diverse mobilisations that opposed the Copenhagen Climate Talks in December 2009. This paper contends that articulations of climate justice pointed to the emergence of three co‐constitutive logics: antagonism, the common(s), and solidarity. Firstly, we argue that climate justice involves an antagonistic framing of climate politics that breaks with attempts to construct climate change as a “post…
On assemblage and articulation
This commentary explores how assemblage thinking might reconfigure understandings of the spatial constitution of articulation. The first section critiques the accounts of the relationalities of political activity associated with site ontology. This argument is illustrated by a brief discussion of the role of West African and Caribbean seafarers in shaping translocal anti-colonial networks in the 1930s. The second section uses assemblage thinking …
The Possibilities of a Politics of Place Beyond Place? A Conversation with Doreen Massey
What follows is the edited and footnoted transcript of a conversation between Doreen Massey, recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from University of Glasgow in July 2009, and the Human Geography Research Group in the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, to mark this occasion. Themes explored include Doreen Massey's early work and influences ranging from geology to Marxism and feminism; recent political engagements i…
Spatial relations, histories from below and the makings of agency
In this paper we propose a conversation between work in labour history and labour geography, in part centring on the formative contribution of E.P. Thompson. We contend that the commitment to multiple and political forms of agency and working-class experience and the positioning of class as process, which are lasting contributions of The Making of the English Working Class, offer resources for re-invigorating debates on agency within labour geogr…
Introduction
Introduction
Towards the Relational Construction of Militant Particularisms
This paper argues that rejecting a bounded notion of past struggles can generate stories that resonate with the diverse and spatially stretched resistances to neoliberal globalisation. It explores some of the routes and connections which made up subaltern struggles in eighteenth-century London. It uses these stories to position militant particularisms as mobile, as the product of interrelations and as actively negotiating spatial relations rather…
Black Internationalism, Subaltern Cosmopolitanism, and the Spatial Politics of Antifascism
This article explores black internationalist articulations of antifascism in the 1930s through a discussion of the “maps of grievance” mobilized by African American volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. It interrogates how African American volunteers linked the conflict in Spain to Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia and to struggles against white supremacy in the United States. Through making such linkages, black i…
Thinking the crisis politically
Dominant forms of left theorizing in relation to the crisis have constructed emergent forms of resistance as limited and reactive. This depiction of resistances, however, is created partly by abstracting the crisis from ongoing contestation of neo-liberalism. This paper situates emerging resistances to crisis and austerity in relation to ongoing trajectories of the contestation of neo-liberalism. It examines some of the solidarities and antagonis…
Spatial relations and the materialities of political conflict
The spatial politics of the past unbound
In this article I consider the relations between historical and contemporary forms of transnational political networks. I contest accounts that counterpose a networked present against a more settled and bounded past, arguing that this contrast rests on a problematic temporalization of difference in the construction of political identities. I consider how this temporalization produces particular accounts of relations between space, politics and id…
Atlantic networks, antagonisms and the formation of subaltern political identities
This paper engages with historians Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker's account of the connections and circulations which they argue constituted a multi-ethnic Atlantic working class in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Linebaugh and Rediker , ). Their stories of the mobile, networked insurgencies that traversed the early modern Atlantic challenge accounts of the geographies of resistance and labour which treat ethnicities as given and se…
Counter-Insurgency, Subalternity and Spatial Relations
This article argues that courts-martial are a distinctive form of counter-insurgent voyage narrative. It seeks to foreground the performances of subaltern speech within the context of counter-insurgent practices through a detailed discussion of the court-martial of six mutineers from the Grampus for their involvement in the mutiny at the Nore in 1797. I draw on Ranajit Guha's influential account of modes of historiography that have either served …
In, against and beyond neo-liberalism
No abstract available
British Jobs for British Workers? Negotiating Work, Nation, and Globalisation through the Lindsey Oil Refinery Disputes
This paper explores the relationships between labour organising, globalisation and national identity through an engagement with the 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes. Some strikers adopted the controversial slogan ‘British Jobs for British Workers’ in response to employers' attempts to undercut existing wages and conditions with a new migrant workforce. This led to accusations of xenophobia. We make three inter‐related arguments. First, we conten…
Maritime labour and subaltern geographies of internationalism
Trade union banners and the construction of a working‐class presence
This paper draws on a project ‘Banner Tales of Glasgow’, which is the result of an ongoing collaboration between geographers, museum staff and trade unionists. The paper draws on testimonies from workers involved in two labour disputes in the mid 1980s. We use these testimonies to think about the use of banners in the construction of working‐class solidarities. This discussion is used to illuminate the relations between the formation of a working…
Co‐producing Caribbean geographies of in/security
This commentary is a friendly response to Chris Philo's Boundary Crossing article on the relevance of security as a theme for that year's RGS Annual Conference (Philo C 2012 Security of geography⁄geography of security Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 37 1–7). The article did the important preliminary work of unfixing the meanings of security, and in particular introduced a fertile heuristic distinction between big‐S and small‐…
Skills for Heterogeneous Associations
Bruno Latour's Politics of Nature (2004, Harvard University Press) argues for a new 'common sense' for political ecology that disabuses it of any foundational grounding in nature. In this paper I interrogate Latour's project in relation to struggles that might be termed 'subaltern political ecologies'. I argue that Latour's account of the political as bearing on the 'progressive composition of the world' offers insights for engaging with the inve…
Intervening in globalization
Trade unions are facing a series of challenges around place-based forms of work in industries such as construction, transport and public services. New spatial strategies by employers involving corporate reorganization, increased outsourcing and the use of migrant labour, allied to a deepening of neoliberal governance processes are accelerating a race to the bottom in wages and conditions. Drawing upon the experience of two recent labour disputes …
Contested Relationalities of Political Activism
This article examines the contested relationalities produced through political activism. I draw on Stuart Hall's account of articulation to engage with the productive geographies of connection forged through political activity. The article outlines an account of articulation as bearing on the linking of different trajectories of political activity, albeit in temporary, contested and partial ways. This processual account of articulation is used to…
Maritime Labour, Circulations of Struggle, and Constructions of Transnational Subaltern Agency
This paper explores the relations between maritime labour, the circulation of struggles between different sites, and constructions of transnational subaltern agency. It does this through engaging with the interconnected strikes of Indian merchant seafarers in ports and ships across the British Empire in the Autumn of 1939. These strikes broke out after the outbreak of the Second World War and were in part mobilised against the racialised inequali…
Introduction
In this introduction we first set out an engagement with the interconnections between forms of anti-politics and spaces of politicization and how these are figured in the special issue. We then detail the ways the papers in the special issue examine questions of depoliticization and politicization of austerity. The final section briefly outlines some key ways in which we envision emergent lines of progressive politicization emerging from the left
Doreen Massey
Doreen Massey: geógrafa radical, feminista, pensadora y activista
Statutory authorizations for the work of local health departments
A study of public health statutes of the 50 states identifies 44 specific services or functions that are assigned to local health departments by all or some of the states. Authorizations are most commonly assigned conjointly both to local and state health departments; exceptions are identified. Data suggest striking inconsistencies between what local health departments are authorized to perform and the services they actually render with regard to…
Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome
Worldwide, it is estimated that there are more than 100.000 infants born with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) each year. In 1998, standard case definitions for surveillance of CRS and rubella were developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2001, 123 countries/territories reported a total of 836.356 rubella cases. In the future more countries are expected to report on rubella as a global measles/rubella laboratory network is further de…
Spatialities of transnational resistance to globalization
This paper explores the spatialities constructed through resistances to globalization. It focuses on the Inter‐Continental Caravan, an ambitious project which united activists from the Indian New Farmers Movements with West European green activists in contesting neo‐liberal institutions and biotechnology. The paper argues that these political activities constructed distinctive ‘maps of grievance’. This term is used to suggest that the constructio…
The Spaces of Politics of the London Corresponding Society
Spatial relations and the materialities of political conflict
Towards the Relational Construction of Militant Particularisms
This paper argues that rejecting a bounded notion of past struggles can generate stories that resonate with the diverse and spatially stretched resistances to neoliberal globalisation. It explores some of the routes and connections which made up subaltern struggles in eighteenth-century London. It uses these stories to position militant particularisms as mobile, as the product of interrelations and as actively negotiating spatial relations rather…
Atlantic networks, antagonisms and the formation of subaltern political identities
This paper engages with historians Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker's account of the connections and circulations which they argue constituted a multi-ethnic Atlantic working class in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Linebaugh and Rediker , ). Their stories of the mobile, networked insurgencies that traversed the early modern Atlantic challenge accounts of the geographies of resistance and labour which treat ethnicities as given and se…
Intervention
The spatial politics of the past unbound
In this article I consider the relations between historical and contemporary forms of transnational political networks. I contest accounts that counterpose a networked present against a more settled and bounded past, arguing that this contrast rests on a problematic temporalization of difference in the construction of political identities. I consider how this temporalization produces particular accounts of relations between space, politics and id…
Skills for Heterogeneous Associations
Bruno Latour's Politics of Nature (2004, Harvard University Press) argues for a new 'common sense' for political ecology that disabuses it of any foundational grounding in nature. In this paper I interrogate Latour's project in relation to struggles that might be termed 'subaltern political ecologies'. I argue that Latour's account of the political as bearing on the 'progressive composition of the world' offers insights for engaging with the inve…
Introduction
Resistance, Space and Political Identities
Counter-Insurgency, Subalternity and Spatial Relations
This article argues that courts-martial are a distinctive form of counter-insurgent voyage narrative. It seeks to foreground the performances of subaltern speech within the context of counter-insurgent practices through a detailed discussion of the court-martial of six mutineers from the Grampus for their involvement in the mutiny at the Nore in 1797. I draw on Ranajit Guha's influential account of modes of historiography that have either served …
The Possibilities of a Politics of Place Beyond Place? A Conversation with Doreen Massey
What follows is the edited and footnoted transcript of a conversation between Doreen Massey, recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from University of Glasgow in July 2009, and the Human Geography Research Group in the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, to mark this occasion. Themes explored include Doreen Massey's early work and influences ranging from geology to Marxism and feminism; recent political engagements i…
Contested Relationalities of Political Activism
This article examines the contested relationalities produced through political activism. I draw on Stuart Hall's account of articulation to engage with the productive geographies of connection forged through political activity. The article outlines an account of articulation as bearing on the linking of different trajectories of political activity, albeit in temporary, contested and partial ways. This processual account of articulation is used to…
On assemblage and articulation
This commentary explores how assemblage thinking might reconfigure understandings of the spatial constitution of articulation. The first section critiques the accounts of the relationalities of political activity associated with site ontology. This argument is illustrated by a brief discussion of the role of West African and Caribbean seafarers in shaping translocal anti-colonial networks in the 1930s. The second section uses assemblage thinking …
“Gramsci in Action”
This chapter interrogates the geographies that structured and produced Antonio Gramsci's engagements with solidarities and internationalism. The first section engages with the importance that Gramsci accorded to the geographies of solidarity through a discussion of his essay “Aspects of the Southern Question.” Such geographies are central to the productive and transformative account of alliances that emerges through this essay. The second section…
Solidarity
David Featherstone is a senior lecturer in human geography at the University of Glasgow. He has key research interests in space, politics and resistance in both the past and present. He is the author of Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks and co-editor of Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey.
Spatial Politics
Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives
Introduction
Reading Mustafa Dikeç's Badlands of the Republic
Articulating Climate Justice in Copenhagen
Articulations of climate justice were central to the diverse mobilisations that opposed the Copenhagen Climate Talks in December 2009. This paper contends that articulations of climate justice pointed to the emergence of three co‐constitutive logics: antagonism, the common(s), and solidarity. Firstly, we argue that climate justice involves an antagonistic framing of climate politics that breaks with attempts to construct climate change as a “post…
Black Internationalism, Subaltern Cosmopolitanism, and the Spatial Politics of Antifascism
This article explores black internationalist articulations of antifascism in the 1930s through a discussion of the “maps of grievance” mobilized by African American volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. It interrogates how African American volunteers linked the conflict in Spain to Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia and to struggles against white supremacy in the United States. Through making such linkages, black i…
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