Atlantic networks, antagonisms and the formation of subaltern political identities Export

@article{citeulike:229562, author = {Featherstone, David}, citeulike-article-id = {229562}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649360500111311}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rscg/2005/00000006/00000003/art00005}, comment = {Abstract: This paper engages with historians Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker's account of the connections and circulations which they argue constituted a multi-ethnic Atlantic working class in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Linebaugh and Rediker 1991, 2000). Their stories of the mobile, networked insurgencies that traversed the early modern Atlantic challenge accounts of the geographies of resistance and labour which treat ethnicities as given and sealed, view subaltern movements as trapped in place and privilege the boundaries between spatial scales. This paper sketches some preliminary aspects of an agenda for thinking spatially the political identities constituted through Atlantic resistances. The paper foregrounds the multiple antagonisms constituted through Atlantic subaltern resistances to explore three aspects of the formation of subaltern political identities in the early-modern Atlantic. Firstly, how the spatial relations of Atlantic networks were brought into contestation through subaltern struggles. Secondly, the plural and mobile character of antagonisms between and within subaltern groups. Finally, the paper explores how subaltern agency and identities were formed in relation to the materialities of Atlantic networks. These arguments are developed through discussion of subaltern resistances in and between Ireland, Newfoundland, the West Coast of Africa, the Virgin Isles and London in the eighteenth century.}, doi = {10.1080/14649360500111311}, issn = {1464-9365}, journal = {Social \& Cultural Geography}, keywords = {atlantic, c18th, class, history}, number = {3}, pages = {387--404}, posted-at = {2005-08-29 17:10:41}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Routledge, part of the Taylor \& Francis Group}, title = {Atlantic networks, antagonisms and the formation of subaltern political identities}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649360500111311}, volume = {6}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:229562 L3 - citeulike-article-id:229562 IS - 3 JF - Social & Cultural Geography SN - 1464-9365 EP - 404 TI - Atlantic networks, antagonisms and the formation of subaltern political identities PB - Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group VL - 6 SP - 387 KW - atlantic KW - c18th KW - class KW - history N1 - Abstract: This paper engages with historians Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker's account of the connections and circulations which they argue constituted a multi-ethnic Atlantic working class in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Linebaugh and Rediker 1991, 2000). Their stories of the mobile, networked insurgencies that traversed the early modern Atlantic challenge accounts of the geographies of resistance and labour which treat ethnicities as given and sealed, view subaltern movements as trapped in place and privilege the boundaries between spatial scales. This paper sketches some preliminary aspects of an agenda for thinking spatially the political identities constituted through Atlantic resistances. The paper foregrounds the multiple antagonisms constituted through Atlantic subaltern resistances to explore three aspects of the formation of subaltern political identities in the early-modern Atlantic. Firstly, how the spatial relations of Atlantic networks were brought into contestation through subaltern struggles. Secondly, the plural and mobile character of antagonisms between and within subaltern groups. Finally, the paper explores how subaltern agency and identities were formed in relation to the materialities of Atlantic networks. These arguments are developed through discussion of subaltern resistances in and between Ireland, Newfoundland, the West Coast of Africa, the Virgin Isles and London in the eighteenth century. AU - Featherstone, David PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649360500111311 ER -