Kallianos, Y. and Fumanti, M. (2021) The everyday and the evental public space: rethinking the spatiotemporal modalities of radical political events. Antipode, 53 (4). pp. 1104-1123. ISSN 0066-4812
Abstract
In this paper, we put forward an examination of the interconnections between public space, the everyday, and the event in order to rethink the spatiotemporal modalities of political action. Recent mass mobilisations and civil unrest events around the globe have brought to the fore the complex relationship between political practices and public space. These indicate a critique of representative democracy, authoritarian governance, and precarious living conditions, as well as entailing new ways of doing and conceptualising politics. Our paper approaches the production and (re)configuration of public space through a spatiotemporal analysis of collective action based on the events that took place in Athens, in December 2008, and in Tottenham, London, in August 2011. By considering the everyday socio-political dynamics of public space as formative of radical political practices, we also pay attention to its evental (re)production. Such a process, we argue, entails the potentiality for rupture, contestation and radical imagination.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Antipode published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Antipode Foundation Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | public space; event; everyday life; revolt; collective action; political mobilisation |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Research Institutes Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2023 16:01 |
Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2023 16:01 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anti.12706 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/anti.12706 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:195841 |