And here are some maps from the mid 18th century of some of the organisations land holdings (in red).
— Matthew *wash-your-hands* Taylor 🔶🇪🇺 (@mat8iou) June 8, 2020
The first is Clifton in Bristol. The second is the Manor of Locking near Weston Super Mare, the third is the Manor of Beere near Cannington in the Somerset levels. pic.twitter.com/rXLqvKEFt7
I'm intrigued at how often closed groups originating from early modern or 18th century financial or merchant guilds still have an input into council decisions. It's like 19th century incorporation & 20th century administration of governing structures never happened.
— Katrina Navickas (@katrinanavickas) June 8, 2020
Foucault called it heterotopia – a temporary moment during periods of structural dislocation, where the protestors enact a ‘world turned upside down’ using forms of carnivalesque symbolism (such as attacking an effigy).
— Katrina Navickas (@katrinanavickas) June 7, 2020
Doreen Massey theorised this local to global brilliantly. I also recommend Dave Featherstone’s rethinking of Raymond Williams’s concept of ‘militant particularism’ in this respect too. The local matters. We protest locally to join the global movement.
— Katrina Navickas (@katrinanavickas) June 7, 2020
Then it proved impossible to find a wording that everyone accepted. The first plaque that it bore, added when it was erected in 1895, said ‘Erected by citizens of Bristol as a memorial of one of the most virtuous and wise sons of their city’. NO mention of slavery. (2)
— Prof Kate Williams (@KateWilliamsme) June 7, 2020
further reading:
Bristol Radical History group: https://www.brh.org.uk/site/
Iwan Sudradjat, ‘Foucault, the Other Spaces, and Human Behaviour’, https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82579543.pdf
Angharad E. Beckett, Paul Bagguley & Tom Campbell, ‘Foucault, social movements and heterotopic horizons: rupturing the order of things’, Social Movement Studies, 16 (2017), http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/101839/3/Heterotopia%20Article%20Beckett%20et%20al%20Final%20Edited.pdf