Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space

This is the first book-length, edited volume to showcase recent geographical scholarship on the spatial politics of performativity and offer a timely intervention within the field of critical human geography by exploring the performativity of political spaces and the spatiality of performative politics.

Michael R. Glass is a Lecturer of Urban Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Reuben Rose-Redwood is an Associate Professor of Geography and member of the Cultural, Social, and Political Thought program at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

1. Introduction: Geographies of Performativity Reuben Rose-Redwood and Michael R. Glass Section One: Taking Performativity Elsewhere 2. Taking Butler Elsewhere: Performativities, Spatialities, and Subjectivities Nicky Gregson and Gillian Rose 3. Engaging Butler: Subjects, Cernment and Ongoing Limits of Performativity Lise Nelson 4. Performativity and Antagonism as Keystones for a Political Geography of Change Carolin Schurr 5. Performativity, Events and Becoming-Stateless Robert J. Kaiser Section Two: Performativity, Space, and Politics 6. Disentangling Property, Performing Space Nicholas Blomley 7. "Sixth Avenue is Now a Memory": Regimes of Spatial Inscription and the Performative Limits of the Official City-Text Reuben Rose-Redwood 8. "Becoming a Thriving Region": Performative Visions, Imaginative Geographies, and the Power of 32 Michael R. Glass 9. Performing Scale: Watersheds as "Natural" Governance Units in the Canadian Context Alice Cohen and Leila Harris Section Three: Political Performativity and the Production of Social Space 10. Finding New Spaces for Performativity and Politics Michael R. Glass and Reuben Rose-Redwood