The Battle of Seattle revisited : or, seven views of a protest-zoning state
Espace urbain ; Etats-Unis ; Gestion urbaine ; Ordre public ; Politique ; Protestation ; Rôle de l'Etat
L'A. fait allusion aux troubles survenus en 1999 à Seattle lors de la conférence ministérielle de l'OMC. La ville a érigé une zone d'accès restreint, dans laquelle il était interdit de protester. La notion de dialectique de l'espace public permet de
présenter plusieurs perspectives sur l'organisation par l'Etat d'un zonage de la protestation.
Urban renewal and housing action areas in Belfast: legitimation and the incorporation of protest
Le programme de rénovation urbaine a été fortement contesté. Le nouveau programme d'action pour l'habitat met l'accent sur la qualité de l'environnement. Un discours opportuniste visant a étouffer la protestation mais apparition de nouvelles
Every creed and party : town tenant protest in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland
to mount a campaign of their own. It was subsumed within the nationalist-unionist schism. The gestation of urban tenant protest and the campaign for urban tenurial rights are examined. It shows how the nationalist issue negated this axis of political
Atlas ; Emeute ; Famine ; Foncier ; Ghum ; Généralités sur la géographie ; Histoire rurale ; Ordre public ; Protestation rurale ; Royaume-Uni ; Région agricole ; Révolte paysanne ; Siècle XVI-XX ; Société ; Société rurale ; Travail ; Violence
Seventy-five maps are included inclued in this volume, each with an accompanying commentary written by an authority on the particular subject. Taken together, the maps show how the distribution of protest-riots connected with land, with food
The streets of Beograd. Urban space and protest identities in Serbia
Sur la base d'une recherche ethnographique en Serbie, l'A. explore les dimensions spatiales des protestations à l'égard du régime de Milosevic. Signification des pratiques spatiales de résistance ancrées dans l'espace de la ville de Belgrade
. Analyse de la relation entre la formation des identités et les pratiques symboliques de la protestation, à l'aide du rôle de métaphores spatiales.
Politiques et religion : protestants et catholiques de la Haute-Loire.
Les clivages religieux déterminent le partage politique d'une petite partie de l'Yssingelais : protestants républicains contre catholiques passéistes. Une comparaison plus poussée avec les pays de La Chaise-Dieu ou le Brivadois aurait donné plus de
Activisme ; Conflit ; Droits de l'homme ; Ecole militaire ; Espace d'exception ; Etats-Unis ; Lutte contre la torture ; Protestation ; Topologie
This School (SOA) is a U.S. Army school that trains Latin American military officers. Graduates have been linked to human rights abuses. The annual vigil in front of Fort Benning is the largest ongoing protest and civil disobedience against U.S
. imperialism being held within the U.S. The movement to close the SOA traces the lines of the topology that shapes spaces of exception in Latin America. The essay looks at the doings of protest space as a form of resistance to the space of exception.
Geography of protest : places of demonstration in Buenos Aires and Seoul
Differences between Buenos Aires and Seoul show that historically developed conventions and symbolic readings of city space matter in the strategic choice of places to protest. Along with local traditions, an internationnaly shared demonstration
The role of women in social protest in the Highlands of Scotland, c. 1880-1939
to the maintenance of claims to land. From this they drew the strength to participate in protest and drew upon the same nexus of motivations as their male counterparts.
Looking forward by looking back : May Day protests in London and the strategic significance of the urban
L'A. se demande comment des mouvements d'opposition peuvent adapter leur stratégie de protestation pour aborder les transformations socio-spatiales récentes. Les travaux de H. Lefebvre fournissent des indications sur la manière dont un discours
From the Guerra del Agua to the Guerra del Gas : resource governance, neoliberalism and popular protest in Bolivia
Des protestations récentes ont concerné en Bolivie l'autonomie régionale et l'opposition politique aux réformes néolibérales. Les protestataires demandent une plus grande participation aux prises de décision concernant la gestion des ressources, une
The article analyses three case studies of protests involving student migrants in Melbourne : a protest against unfair assessment ; a fight for a campus prayer room ; and labour protests within the retail service and taxi industries. It draws
on theoretical work on new social movements and social transformation in urban spaces to find ways to conceptualize this activism in relation to the scales of campus, city and nation. It argues primarily that these sites of protest are socio-spatial experiences
The political geography of ethnic protest : nationalism, deprivation and regionalism among Arabs in Israel
The paper shows that Arab protest in the Galilee has been influenced by politico-geographical factors as well as by the region's evolving ethnic geography and by Israel's discriminatory planning policies. Arab regional protest is focused on national
Madagascar aflame : landscape burning as peasant protest, resistance, or a resource management tool ?
The state criminalizes burning due to concern that fire destroys the island's natural resources and blocks development. The resultant conflict over natural resource management provides a convenient window into questions of peasant protest
and ambiguous spaces between domination and resistance, between state and peasant, between protest and livelihood practices, and second, attention to the political-ecological context including resource ecology, rural livelihoods, and political discourse.
In the past three decades, Protestantism has surged as a religious force in Latin America| in many areas there are now more practicing Protestants than practicing Catholics. The A. sheds light on the dynamics of conversion from a study made
in Nealtican, a rural agricultural community in the Puebla Valley of Mexico where 10 % were Protestant. - (DWG)