On resistance in human geography

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Abstract

This paper outlines scholarship on resistance within geography. Its contention is that conceptualisations of resistance are characterised by a predetermination of form that particular actions or actors must assume to constitute resistance. Asking what we risk ignoring if we only focus on predetermined, recognisable resistant forms, the paper revisits some of the fundamental assumptions (of intention, linearity and opposition) that underpin accounts of resistance. It calls for geographers to engage with resistance in emergence. The paper concludes by detailing what this might look like in practice, including intersections with work on potentiality, incoherent subjects, agentic materiality and speculative futures.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1141-1160
JournalProgress in Human Geography
Volume44
Issue number6
Early online date9 Oct 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2020

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