Dr. David Featherstone

Biography

David Featherstone is a Professor in the School of Geographical & Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow. His work focuses on political geography, particularly in relation to globalization, resistance, and the politics of space. He has significantly contributed to debates surrounding subaltern political ecologies and the formation of transnational solidarity networks, challenging existing understandings of the relations between space and politics. Featherstone's book, 'Resistance, Space and Political Identities: Making Counter-Global Networks,' theorizes resistance and political identities through a relational approach to space. It draws on detailed empirical research from the 18th-century Atlantic world to contemporary counter-globalization movements, emphasizing the importance of solidarities in producing equitable and plural forms of globalization. His current research interests include the histories and geographies of solidarity within internationalism, focusing on the genealogies of internationalism and its connections to figures like C.L.R. James and Antonio Gramsci. Furthermore, he investigates forms of black internationalism, the spatial politics of anti-fascism, and solidarity practices in the context of the current economic crisis, with an emphasis on trade union and social movement networks.

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