Autonomous Geographies
Critical geographers at the University of Leeds and the University of Leicester began Autonomous Geographies in 2005 to define:
…those spaces where there is a desire to constitute non-capitalist, collective forms of politics, identity and citizenship, which are created through a combination of resistance and creation, and the questioning and challenging of dominant laws and social norms.
The project looked at how activists make and remake these types of spaces in their everyday lives by exploring their core ideas, beliefs and visions, how they are translated into action, what kinds of spaces for participation and identity are created and what it means to live in-between the overlapping spaces.
Autonomous Geographies and the projects, relationships and interventions it created carry on in different forms, despite the project’s culmination in 2007.
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