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The cartographies of protest
In The Practice of Everyday Life, de Certeau likens himself to a Solar Eye reading the city spread out like a text below. He compares this all-seeing position to the enmeshed position of those whose intermingled footsteps pass through the city streets, writing stories that deliberately elude legibility. These two ways of experiencing the city offer a theoretical frame through which I will explore both the administration of protest spaces, and protesters’ ongoing attempts to subvert and evade those controls. In doing so, this contribution will examine the way in which the police practice of kettling depends upon the police’s ability to draw a series of distinctions between ‘good’ protesters who comply with state demands, and ‘bad’ protesters who err from official routes. It will go onto to explore the way in which the practice of maptivism impacts upon protesters’ ability to occupy city spaces and resist the totalising administrations of the state.
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Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social ProtestISSN
2330-1392Publisher
Punctum BooksPublisher URL
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2Volume
3Page range
65-80Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
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2016-01-27First Open Access (FOA) Date
2016-11-04First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2016-01-27Usage metrics
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