Rebel Valley

Mateusz Laszczkowski is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is the author of 'City of the Future': Modernity, Built Space and Urban Change in Astana (Berghahn, 2016), and coeditor of Affective States: Entaglements, Suspensions, Suspicions (with Madeleine Reeves; Berghahn 2017).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Welcome to the Valley that ResistsInterlude: The Case for Recentring ResistanceChapter 1. Producing the Rebel Valley: Infrastructures of ContentionChapter 2. Lotta popolare: Militant Subjects in FormationChapter 3. Are We All Black Bloc? Democracy, Direct Action and the Limits of ParticipationChapter 4. Reclaiming Territorio: Place-Making as Insurgent StrategyChapter 5. Affects of ResistanceChapter 6. ‘The Stuff That Kills’: A Politics of CareConclusion: The Promise of TerritorioReferencesIndex

“This is the work of a rigorous scholar and the result of a thorough, long-term research process. It is a compelling ethnography of processes of political subjectification in the Italian no TAV movement.” • Natalia Buier, Universidad Complutense de Madrid