Change is inevitable, we are told. A job is lost, a couple falls in
love, children leave home, an addict joins Narcotics Anonymous, two
nations go to war, a family member's health deteriorates, a baby is
born, a universal health care bill is voted into law. Life
comprises events over which we have considerable, partial, or
little or no control. The distance between the event and our daily
lives suggests a quirky spatial politics. Our lives move forward
depending upon how events play out in concert with our reactions to
them. Drawing on nearly three decades of geographic projects that
involve ethnographies and interviews with, and stories about, young
people in North and South American, Europe and Asia and using the
innovative technique of ethnopoetry, Aitken examines key
life-changing events to look at the interconnections between space,
politics, change and emotions. Analysing the intricate spatial
complexities of these events, he explores the emotions that
undergird the ways change takes place, and the perplexing spatial
politics that almost always accompany transformations. Aitken
positions young people as effective agents of change without
romanticizing their political involvement as fantasy and
unrealistic dreaming. Going further, he suggests that it is the
emotional palpability of youth engagement and activism that makes
it so potent and productive. Pulling on the spatial theories of de
Certeau, Deleuze, Massey, Agamben, Ranciere, Zizek and Grosz
amongst others, Aitken argues that spaces are transformative to the
degree that they open the political and he highlights the complexly
interwoven political, economic, social and cultural practices that
simultaneously embed and embolden people in places. If we think of
spaces as events and events encourage change, then spaces and
people become other through complex relations. Taking poetry to be
an emotive construction of language, Aitken re-visualizes, contorts
and arranges people's words and gestures to
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