Series Editors' Preface viii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Space, Contestation and the Political 1
Part I Networking the Political 13
1 Place and the Relational Construction of Political Identities 15
2 Geographies of Solidarities and Antagonisms 36
Part II Geographies of Connection and Contestation 57
3 Labourers' Politics and Mercantile Networks 59
4 Making Democratic Spatial Practices 79
5 Counter-Global Networks and the Making of Subaltern Nationalisms 99
Part III Political Geographies of the Counter-Globalization Movement 119
6 Geographies of Power and the Counter-Globalization Movement 121
7 Constructing Transnational Political Networks 149
Conclusion: Towards Politicized Geographies of Connection 177
Notes 190
References 196
Index 221

Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-centuryAtlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space andPolitical Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networkschallenges existing understandings of the relations between space,politics, and resistance to develop an innovative account ofnetworked forms of resistance and political activity.
* Explores counter-global struggles in both the past andpresent--including both the 18th-century Atlantic world andcontemporary forms of resistance
* Examines the productive geographies of contestation
* Foregrounds the solidarities and geographies of connectionbetween different place-based struggles and argues that suchsolidarities are essential to produce more plural forms ofglobalization