
The Freedom Riders Across Borders
Contentious Mobilities
Barbara Luethi(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. May 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
170 pages
978-1-032-13214-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Freedom Riders Across Borders: Contentious Mobilities provides the first comprehensive transnational historical analysis of the Freedom Rides. It explores the transnational history of these social movements and the struggles for the right to mobility and other civil rights in the United States of America, Australia, and Palestine between 1961 and 2011.
This book makes a significant contribution to the transnational studies of social movements and the burgeoning field of mobility studies by investigating the specific constellations of mobility as historically and geographically specific formations of movement as well as investigating how the images, ideas and strategies of Freedom Riders were adapted, translated, and moved across time and space. Foremost, this book speaks to the pressing questions of the past and present concerning the politics and inequalities of mobilities impacting different social groups in different ways. From a historical perspective, it gives answers to the intensified interest and questions concerning the dynamics, techniques and "contentious politics" of social movements in a globalized environment. The book details how the question of mobility has come to constitute political conflict and protest over norms, restrictions, and representations. It shows not only that mobility is a differentially accessed resource which shapes and is shaped by political processes, but also that contestation is an equal part of forming mobility. The book identifies vehicles as a mobile site of contestation and, in the context of the Freedom Rides, as a site of strategic political action.
In doing so, Luethi makes a persuasive case for mobility to be given a central place in the study of progressive social movements. As such, this book will be of great interest to researchers in a number of disciplines, including history, geography and sociology.
This book makes a significant contribution to the transnational studies of social movements and the burgeoning field of mobility studies by investigating the specific constellations of mobility as historically and geographically specific formations of movement as well as investigating how the images, ideas and strategies of Freedom Riders were adapted, translated, and moved across time and space. Foremost, this book speaks to the pressing questions of the past and present concerning the politics and inequalities of mobilities impacting different social groups in different ways. From a historical perspective, it gives answers to the intensified interest and questions concerning the dynamics, techniques and "contentious politics" of social movements in a globalized environment. The book details how the question of mobility has come to constitute political conflict and protest over norms, restrictions, and representations. It shows not only that mobility is a differentially accessed resource which shapes and is shaped by political processes, but also that contestation is an equal part of forming mobility. The book identifies vehicles as a mobile site of contestation and, in the context of the Freedom Rides, as a site of strategic political action.
In doing so, Luethi makes a persuasive case for mobility to be given a central place in the study of progressive social movements. As such, this book will be of great interest to researchers in a number of disciplines, including history, geography and sociology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Illustrations
19 s/w Abbildungen, 19 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
19 Halftones, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
286 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-13214-3 (9781032132143)
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Person
Barbara Luethi is Reader of History at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research explores 19th and 20th century European and North American history with a focus on migration history and mobility studies, global history, postcolonial studies, social movement history, and the history of violence. She has previously worked as a visiting scholar at the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, the Humanities Institute at the University of California, Davis, USA, and as a Fellow at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) at the University of Chicago, USA.
Content
Introduction, 1. "You Don't Have to Ride Jim Crow": The Freedom Riders of 1961 and the Dilemma of Mobility, 2. Contentious Politics in Australia, 3. Freedom Ride in the Palestinian West Banks, 4. Freedom of Movement and Its Limits