Practice of Freedom

Richard J. White is Reader in Economic Geography at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Simon Springer is Associate Professor of Geography at University of Victoria, Canada. Marcelo Lopes de Souza is Professor of Geography at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.

• Performing Anarchism, Practising Freedom, Pursuing Revolt, Richard J. White, Simon Springer, and Marcelo Lopes de Souza / 1. Anarchist Geographies in the Rural Global South, Navé Wald and Doug Hill / 2. Anarchist City? Sir Patrick Geddes’ 1925 Anarchist Housing-Based Plan for Tel Aviv, and the Housing Protests of 2011 and Beyond, Yael Allweil / 3. Contesting Imperial Geography: Reading Elisée Reclus in 1930s’ Hokkaido, Nadine Willems / 4. Organizing the APOCalypse: Ethnographic Reflections on an Anarchist People of Color Convergence in New Orleans, Louisiana, Patrick W. Huff / 5. Anarchism, Social Order and the City in Portugal between the End of the Nineteenth Century and the First Decades of the Twentieth Century, Diogo Duarte / 6. The Global Hiroba: Transnational Spaces in Tokyo’s Anti-nuclear Movement, Catherine Tsukasa Bender and Alexander Brown / 7. The Battle for the Common Space, from the Neoliberal Creative City to the Rebel City and Vice Versa: the Cases of Athens, Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Izmir, Mat

Updating the concepts of freedom and revolt is a major merit of The Practice of Freedom, especially in the present moment, a period full of black clouds for humanity. The particular importance of this book is that it ties emancipation to revolt, where the first is viewed not as a place of arrival (or even a new world), but a matter of what we do every day to be free and outwit the oppressors.