Paul Routledge
Biographic Data
| ID | 190279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Routledge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Routledge |
| SIGNATURE | ROUTLEDGE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3214-3842 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 19 |
Defusing a carbon bomb: Exploring the strategies of anti-fracking activists in Mexico
Dawn of the debt: Tactical performance, humour and the practice of alter-geopolitics
Putting politics in its place
Contemporary social movement research has focused primarily on the goals, organization and success of particular struggles, paying insufficient attention to how movement character and agency are mediated by place. This article explores this theme within the context of contemporary Indian society which has seen the recent emergence of place-specific, autonomous social movements. The article also considers the interplay between processes of dominat…
Space Invaders: Radical Geographies of Protest
States of just transition: Realising climate justice through and against the state
Resourcing Scholar-Activism: Collaboration, Transformation, and the Production of Knowledge
In this article we offer a set of resources for scholar-activists to reflect on and guide their practice. We begin by suggesting that research questions should be triangulated to consider not only their scholarly merit but the intellectual and political projects the findings will advance and the research questions of interest to community and social movement collaborators.
Engendering Gramsci: Gender, the Philosophy of Praxis, and Spaces of Encounter in the Climate Caravan, Bangladesh
This paper examines the gendered politics of national and international networking amongst peasant farmers' movements in South Asia. In particular the paper provides an ethnographic account, based upon the author's critical engagement with the Bangladesh Krishok (farmer) Federation and the Bangladesh Kishani Sabha (Women Farmers' Association), of the Climate Change, Gender and Food Sovereignty Caravan that was organised in Bangladesh in 2011. The…
Territorialising movement: The politics of land occupation in Bangladesh
This paper considers the politics of land occupation in Bangladesh. Contentious politics have been conceptualised as ‘societies in movement’ by Raul Zibechi, defined through their attempts to disperse power through the reconfiguration of social relations between peasants, the state and capital. Drawing on the author's ethnographic engagement with peasant farmer movements in Bangladesh since 2002, the paper analyses the differential powers generat…
Practising participatory geographies: Potentials, Problems and Politics
Participatory approaches have become increasingly popular within geography in recent years, but some would argue that participatory working is both in vogue and in crisis. In this special section of A rea we have drawn together a series of papers to reflect on the complexities, tensions and difficulties that are caught up with the potentials and politics of participatory ways of working and thinking. In this introductory editorial we set out the …
Situated solidarities and the practice of scholar-activism
Drawing on an analysis of an ongoing collaboration with rural peasant movements in Bangladesh, we explore the possibility of forging solidarity through practices of scholar-activism. In so doing, we consider the practice of reflexivity, reconsider forms of solidarity, and draw on the concept of convergence spaces as a way to envision sites of possibility. We mobilize the notion of situated solidarities to propose an alternative form of reflexive …
Activist Ethnography and Translocal Solidarity
Articulating Climate Justice in Copenhagen: Antagonism, the Commons, and Solidarity
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…
Global Justice Networks: Geographies of Transnational Solidarity
Translocal Climate Justice Solidarities
Sensuous Solidarities: Emotion, Politics and Performance in the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
This paper is concerned with the political performance of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) during the protests against the G8 meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland in 2005. In particular, the paper is concerned with how emotional experiences within political moments or events can be constituted through performances that fashion “sensuous solidarities”. Sensuous solidarities are generated through diverse bodily movements and techniques…
Introduction: Cities, Justice and Conflict
Nineteen Days in April: Urban Protest and Democracy in Nepal
For 19 days in April 2006, Nepal witnessed a popular uprising against the royal-military coup staged by King Gyanendra in February 2005. The Jana Andolan II (People’s Movement II) demanded a return to democracy, the establishment of a lasting peace in Nepal and more political and economic inclusion for the various ethnic and caste groups historically marginalised in Nepali society. Through an analysis of the Jana Andolan (particularly within the …
Obituary: Duncan Fuller 10 January 1972—3 October 2008
Within the River: Collaboration and Methodology
Fashioning Different Worlds
Global Justice Networks: Geographies of Transnational Solidarity
This title provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement' and the first comprehensive geographical analysis of transnational political action after the Seattle protests of 1999.
Transnational Resistance: Global Justice Networks and Spaces of Convergence
This study will consider how the reconfiguration of political life in relation to globalising economic and social processes has seen renewed efforts by social movements to extend their reach beyond local or national boundaries. To achieve this, social movements are constructing multiscalar networks of support and solidarity for their particular struggles, and participating with other movements in broad networks to resist neoliberal globalisation.…
Transnational Political Movements
Labour agency and union positionalities in global production networks
The development of a global production networks (GPN) perspective in economic geography has brought valuable insights into the social and political relations between regional, state and corporate actors in understanding processes of value capture in the production of commodities. However, to date, little has been said about labour as an active constituent of the global economy, rather than the passive victim of restructuring processes. In this ar…
The entangled geographies of global justice networks
The recent emergence of global justice networks (GJNs) to counter neoliberal globalization has been an important political and geographical phenomenon. Much has been written about the emergence of a new global civil society, centred upon a new `network' ontology. In engaging with these debates in this paper, our purpose is to develop a more critical spatial perspective. We argue that issues of space and place are critical in understanding the ope…
Convergence space: Process Geographies of Grassroots Globalization Networks
This paper considers grassroots globalization networks, which comprise a diversity of social movements working in association to engage in multi-scalar political action. Drawing upon David Harvey's notion of militant particularism (regarding the problems of effecting politics between different geographical scales), and recent research on networks and their relationship to places, the paper analyses People's Global Action, an international network…
Labour agency and union positionalities in global production networks
The development of a global production networks (GPN) perspective in economic geography has brought valuable insights into the social and political relations between regional, state and corporate actors in understanding processes of value capture in the production of commodities. However, to date, little has been said about labour as an active constituent of the global economy, rather than the passive victim of restructuring processes. In this ar…
Articulating Climate Justice in Copenhagen: Antagonism, the Commons, and Solidarity
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…
States of just transition: Realising climate justice through and against the state
The entangled geographies of global justice networks
The recent emergence of global justice networks (GJNs) to counter neoliberal globalization has been an important political and geographical phenomenon. Much has been written about the emergence of a new global civil society, centred upon a new `network' ontology. In engaging with these debates in this paper, our purpose is to develop a more critical spatial perspective. We argue that issues of space and place are critical in understanding the ope…
Sensuous Solidarities: Emotion, Politics and Performance in the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
This paper is concerned with the political performance of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) during the protests against the G8 meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland in 2005. In particular, the paper is concerned with how emotional experiences within political moments or events can be constituted through performances that fashion “sensuous solidarities”. Sensuous solidarities are generated through diverse bodily movements and techniques…
Critical geopolitics and terrains of resistance
Acting in the Network: ANT and the Politics of Generating Associations
In this paper I will draw upon ANT to consider how political associations are generated within a global network of grassroots peasant movements. ANT has failed to fully consider the ways of generating such associations, especially the processes through which such associations are made. In so doing, the causes of and accountability for differential power relations have been precluded, as have the productive dimensions of that power. Through a cons…
The Imagineering of Resistance: Pollok Free State and the Practice of Postmodern Politics
The conflict over the construction of the M77 motorway in Glasgow, Scotland, is an example of a subculture of resistance which has emerged within Britain over the past fifteen years. The paper focuses upon the actions of Glasgow Earth First!, with whom the author has participated, and on the role of Pollok Free State – an ecological encampment located in the projected path of the motorway. Such resistance is characteristic of a postmodern politic…
Practising participatory geographies: Potentials, Problems and Politics
Participatory approaches have become increasingly popular within geography in recent years, but some would argue that participatory working is both in vogue and in crisis. In this special section of A rea we have drawn together a series of papers to reflect on the complexities, tensions and difficulties that are caught up with the potentials and politics of participatory ways of working and thinking. In this introductory editorial we set out the …
Situated solidarities and the practice of scholar-activism
Drawing on an analysis of an ongoing collaboration with rural peasant movements in Bangladesh, we explore the possibility of forging solidarity through practices of scholar-activism. In so doing, we consider the practice of reflexivity, reconsider forms of solidarity, and draw on the concept of convergence spaces as a way to envision sites of possibility. We mobilize the notion of situated solidarities to propose an alternative form of reflexive …
The Third Space as Critical Engagement
Travelling East as Walter Kurtz: Identity, Performance, and Collaboration in Goa, India
There has been a renewed intellectual concern with the politics of geographical research in recent years, which has expressed, at times, the need for an engagement between the often separate worlds of academia and activism. Interventions by critical geographers such as Ian Maxey, and feminist geographers, including Cindi Kate, Heidi Nast, Gillian Rose, and J-K Gibson-Graham, have provided important insights into the political commitment geographe…
Embodying Spirits of Resistance
There are revolutionary moments of politics that can be most appropriately described as spiritual moments. These are the moments when people are willing to risk their lives while resisting oppressive power. In this paper we address spirits of resistance in a general way, but also as manifested at particular moments in three contemporary resistance movements in England, India, and Palestine. Our intention is not to explain such moments, not to ana…
Our resistance will be as transnational as capital: Convergence space and strategy in globalising resistance
Selling the rain', resisting the sale: Resistant identities and the conflict over tourism in Goa
This paper discusses the development of Goa as a tourist site within India and examines the economic, cultural and environmental impacts of such tourism development upon Goan communities. In so doing, the paper argues that while Goa has become a dispensable space for the exigencies of contemporary tourist development it has also engendered various forms of resistance to this process. The paper utilizes Manuel Castells' notion of 'resistance ident…
Backstreets, Barricades, and Blackouts: Urban Terrains of Resistance in Nepal
In this paper I apply aspects of sociospatial theory to the revolutionary context of urban Nepal during the democratic uprisings of 1990. The urban spaces of Kathmandu and Patan were two of the most important sites within which power was contested, and terrains upon which space itself was contested. As I will show, the location of struggle emerged from conscious movement choices (as to tactics, efficacy of mobilization, etc) and influenced the ch…
Territorialising movement: The politics of land occupation in Bangladesh
This paper considers the politics of land occupation in Bangladesh. Contentious politics have been conceptualised as ‘societies in movement’ by Raul Zibechi, defined through their attempts to disperse power through the reconfiguration of social relations between peasants, the state and capital. Drawing on the author's ethnographic engagement with peasant farmer movements in Bangladesh since 2002, the paper analyses the differential powers generat…
Grassrooting Network Imaginaries: Relationality, Power, and Mutual Solidarity in Global Justice Networks
In this paper we draw critically upon actor network theory (ANT) in order to analyse the contours of relationality, communication, and operational logic within a global justice network-People's Global Action Asia. Drawing upon the concept of translation, we consider how connections are fostered and sustained within the network, focusing upon the work of key organisers (those we term the 'imagineers') and key events in producing the network. In so…
Voices of the dammed: Discursive resistance amidst erasure in the Narmada Valley, India
Entangled logics and grassroots imaginaries of Global Justice Networks
This article concerns the operation of two global justice networks (GJNS): People's Global Action Asia (PGA Asia) and the European arm of the International Federation of Chemical, Energy and Mining Workers (ICEM). We investigate the entangled operational logics of both networks as they combat tendencies towards emerging operational hierarchies while attempting to embed international imaginations among the grassroots. The work of key activists, or…
Introduction: Cities, Justice and Conflict
Putting politics in its place
Within the River: Collaboration and Methodology
Transnational Resistance: Global Justice Networks and Spaces of Convergence
This study will consider how the reconfiguration of political life in relation to globalising economic and social processes has seen renewed efforts by social movements to extend their reach beyond local or national boundaries. To achieve this, social movements are constructing multiscalar networks of support and solidarity for their particular struggles, and participating with other movements in broad networks to resist neoliberal globalisation.…
Hume Reconsidered: Hume's Philosophy of Belief
Dispensable Space, Defensible Space: The Conflict Over the National Testing Range in Orissa
Research Article| August 01 1988 Dispensable Space, Defensible Space: The Conflict Over the National Testing Range in Orissa Paul Routledge Paul Routledge Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 98–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-8-1-2-98 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Routledge; Dispensable Spa…
Putting politics in its place
Terrains of resistance: Nonviolent social movements andthe contestation of place in India
Backstreets, Barricades, and Blackouts: Urban Terrains of Resistance in Nepal
In this paper I apply aspects of sociospatial theory to the revolutionary context of urban Nepal during the democratic uprisings of 1990. The urban spaces of Kathmandu and Patan were two of the most important sites within which power was contested, and terrains upon which space itself was contested. As I will show, the location of struggle emerged from conscious movement choices (as to tactics, efficacy of mobilization, etc) and influenced the ch…
Embodying Spirits of Resistance
There are revolutionary moments of politics that can be most appropriately described as spiritual moments. These are the moments when people are willing to risk their lives while resisting oppressive power. In this paper we address spirits of resistance in a general way, but also as manifested at particular moments in three contemporary resistance movements in England, India, and Palestine. Our intention is not to explain such moments, not to ana…
The Third Space as Critical Engagement
Critical geopolitics and terrains of resistance
Ecology and equity: The use and abuse of nature in contemporary India
The Imagineering of Resistance: Pollok Free State and the Practice of Postmodern Politics
The conflict over the construction of the M77 motorway in Glasgow, Scotland, is an example of a subculture of resistance which has emerged within Britain over the past fifteen years. The paper focuses upon the actions of Glasgow Earth First!, with whom the author has participated, and on the role of Pollok Free State – an ecological encampment located in the projected path of the motorway. Such resistance is characteristic of a postmodern politic…
Space, Mobility, and Collective Action: India's Naxalite Movement
Contemporary theories of social movements have failed adequately to address the spatiality of collective action. I argue that an analysis of collective action that pays due attention to the spatiality of movement practice can provide an important complement to social movement theories. This spatiality of social movement agency involves an analysis of how spatial processes and relations across a variety of scales, as well as the particularities of…
Entanglements of Power: Geographies of Domination/Resistance
This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it.The team of contributors explore themes of identity, embodiment, organisation, colonialism, and political transformation, examining them from historical, contemporary and more …
Our resistance will be as transnational as capital: Convergence space and strategy in globalising resistance
Geopoetics of Resistance: India's Baliapal Movement
Privatizing Nature: Political Struggles for the Global Commons
Selling the rain', resisting the sale: Resistant identities and the conflict over tourism in Goa
This paper discusses the development of Goa as a tourist site within India and examines the economic, cultural and environmental impacts of such tourism development upon Goan communities. In so doing, the paper argues that while Goa has become a dispensable space for the exigencies of contemporary tourist development it has also engendered various forms of resistance to this process. The paper utilizes Manuel Castells' notion of 'resistance ident…
Entanglements of Power
Going globile: Spatiality, embodiment, and media-tion in the Zapatista insurgency
Perhaps more than any other recent guerrilla insurgency (e.g. FMLN, FSLN) the Zapatistas have consciously sought to use the media as an integral part of their overall political strategy, and have used an articulate, humorous, and poetic spokesperson in the masked figure of Subcommandante Marcos. As a result, the Zapatistas have received enormous national and international media attention. Thousands of column inches have been devoted to them in th…
Travelling East as Walter Kurtz: Identity, Performance, and Collaboration in Goa, India
There has been a renewed intellectual concern with the politics of geographical research in recent years, which has expressed, at times, the need for an engagement between the often separate worlds of academia and activism. Interventions by critical geographers such as Ian Maxey, and feminist geographers, including Cindi Kate, Heidi Nast, Gillian Rose, and J-K Gibson-Graham, have provided important insights into the political commitment geographe…
Voices of the dammed: Discursive resistance amidst erasure in the Narmada Valley, India
Convergence space: Process Geographies of Grassroots Globalization Networks
This paper considers grassroots globalization networks, which comprise a diversity of social movements working in association to engage in multi-scalar political action. Drawing upon David Harvey's notion of militant particularism (regarding the problems of effecting politics between different geographical scales), and recent research on networks and their relationship to places, the paper analyses People's Global Action, an international network…
Worlds apart: Civil society and the battle for ethical globalization by John Clark
Entangled logics and grassroots imaginaries of Global Justice Networks
This article concerns the operation of two global justice networks (GJNS): People's Global Action Asia (PGA Asia) and the European arm of the International Federation of Chemical, Energy and Mining Workers (ICEM). We investigate the entangled operational logics of both networks as they combat tendencies towards emerging operational hierarchies while attempting to embed international imaginations among the grassroots. The work of key activists, or…
Grassrooting Network Imaginaries: Relationality, Power, and Mutual Solidarity in Global Justice Networks
In this paper we draw critically upon actor network theory (ANT) in order to analyse the contours of relationality, communication, and operational logic within a global justice network-People's Global Action Asia. Drawing upon the concept of translation, we consider how connections are fostered and sustained within the network, focusing upon the work of key organisers (those we term the 'imagineers') and key events in producing the network. In so…
Transnational Political Movements
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