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Geographies of power: The IPSC as a resisting community
| This research examines the public sphere of civil society and the role of social movements in creating an alternative arena of politics, which stands in contestation to more dominant and hegemonic forms of representation and knowledge. The focus of the presentation is on the discourses and knowledges of the Israel-Palestine conflict examined through the lens of an Irish solidarity movement, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC). In the context of my research I am interested in revealing the employment of geographical knowledges by the IPSC in the production and animation of critical knowledges of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Through the filter of the IPSC online database specific human geographies emerge which attempt to disrupt dominant knowledges of the conflict. Further the IPSC highlights how local, subaltern resistances and political activity can negotiate space and power relations to interchange with global processes.
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