Radical Space: Building the House of the People

by Margaret Kohn

Book Overview

Epoch-making political events are often remembered for their spatial markers: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the storming of the Bastille, the occupation of Tiananmen Square: . Until recently, however, political theory has overlooked the power of place. In Radical Space, Margaret Kohn puts space at the center of democratic theory. Kohn examines different sites of working-class mobilization in Europe and explains how these sites destabilized the existing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801488605
• ISBN13: 9780801488603
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.9"