Spaces of Contention

Walter Nicholls, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Byron Miller, University of Calgary, Canada and Justin Beaumont, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Walter Nicholls, Byron Miller, Justin Beaumont, Donatella della Porta, Maria Fabbri, Gianni Piazza, Don Mitchell, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Loes Verplanke, Deborah G. Martin, Martin Jones, John Agnew, Ulrich Oslender, Johan Moyersoen, Erik Swyngedouw, Margit Mayer, Dingxin Zhao, Ted Rutland, Andrew D. Davies, David Featherstone, Paul Routledge, Andrew Cumbers, Corinne Nativel.

Introduction; I: Place and Space: Sites of Mobilization; 1: Putting Protest in Place: Contested and Liberated Spaces in Three Campaigns; 2: The Liberalization of Free Speech: Or, How Protest in Public Space is Silenced; 3: Struggling to Belong: Social Movements and the Fight to Feel at Home; 4: Place Frames: Analysing Practice and Production of Place in Contentious Politics; II: Scale, Territory and Region: Structuring Collective Interests, Identities and Resources; 5: ‘Polymorphic Spatial Politics': Tales from a Grassroots Regional Movement; 6: Overlapping Territorialities, Sovereignty in Dispute: Empirical Lessons from Latin America; 7: LimiteLimite: Cracks in the City, Brokering Scales, and Pioneering a New Urbanity; 8: Multiscalar Mobilization for the Just City: New Spatial Politics of Urban Movements; III: Networks: Connecting Actors and Resources Across Space; 9: The Built Environment and Organization in Anti-US Protest Mobilization after the 1999 Belgrade Embassy Bombing 1; 10: Energizing Environmental Concern in Portland, Oregon; 11: Networking Resistances: The Contested Spatialities of Transnational Social Movement Organizing; 12: Global Justice Networks: Operational Logics, Imagineers and Grassrooting Vectors; Spatialities of Mobilization: Building and Breaking Relationships