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"There Were Streets": Urban Renewal And The Early Troubles In London/Derry, Northern Ireland, Margo Shea
"There Were Streets": Urban Renewal And The Early Troubles In London/Derry, Northern Ireland, Margo Shea
Margo Shea
Spatializing Politics is an anthology of emerging scholarship that treats built and imagined spaces as critical to knowing political power. In academic and popular discourse, spaces tend to serve as passive containers, symbols, or geographical coordinates for political theories, ideologies, and histories. By contrast, the essays in this collection illustrate how buildings and landscapes as disparate as Rust Belt railway stations and rural Rwandan hills become tools of political action and frameworks for political authority. Each chapter features original research on the spatial production of conflict and consensus, which ranges from exclusion and incarceration to reclamation and reconciliation. By focusing …