Place and the Politics of Identity
by Steve Pile, Michael Keith
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In the last two decades, new political subjects have been created through the actions of the new social movements; often by asserting the unfixed and `overdetermined' character of identity. Further, in attempting to avoid essentialism, people have frequently looked to their territorial roots to establish their constituency. A cultural politics of resistance, as exemplified by Black politics, feminism, and gay liberation, has developed struggles to turn sites of oppression and discrimintion show more into spaces of resistance. This book collects together perspectives which challenge received notions show lessTags
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Michael Keith is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London
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