COP26 protests in Glasgow: encountering crowds and the city

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

Scottish Geographical Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-05 DOI:10.1080/14702541.2022.2161008

Miza Moreau

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with both the affective and material dimensions of encounters among people, and between people and the city, during the COP26 summit in Glasgow, focusing on protest activities that aimed to engage the broader public. The discussion draws from my participation in, and observations of, two protests, the Youth Activist Climate March and the Climate Activist March, and observations of changes in public open spaces in Glasgow for COP26. Fieldwork street photography was instrumental in this study for discovering diverse encounters that were sometimes too transient to register through observations alone. It was deployed as a heuristic method, drawing from personal ‘in the moment’ experiences of the protests, as well as theories of public space and urban morphology, with the aim to discover how changing interactions between bodies and material spaces temporarily reconfigured Glasgow’s public realm. By making material/social relationships more transparent, this paper aims to address shortcomings in protest literature through addressing the material specificity of urban space. I argue that the diversity of Glasgow’s urban spaces enabled varied engagement with protest activities, among protesters, and between protesters and onlookers, and as a result created an overall inclusive, affective experience.

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格拉斯哥COP26抗议活动:与人群和城市相遇

摘要本文关注在格拉斯哥举行的COP26峰会期间，人们之间以及人们与城市之间遭遇的情感和物质层面，重点关注旨在吸引更广泛公众的抗议活动。这场讨论源于我对两次抗议活动的参与和观察，即青年活动家气候游行和气候活动家游行，以及对格拉斯哥COP26公共开放空间变化的观察。实地街头摄影在这项研究中发挥了重要作用，发现了各种各样的遭遇，这些遭遇有时过于短暂，无法单独通过观察来记录。它是一种启发式方法，借鉴了抗议活动中个人的“当下”经历，以及公共空间和城市形态的理论，目的是发现身体和物质空间之间不断变化的互动如何暂时重新配置格拉斯哥的公共领域。通过使物质/社会关系更加透明，本文旨在通过解决城市空间的物质特性来解决抗议文学中的不足。我认为，格拉斯哥城市空间的多样性使抗议者、抗议者和旁观者能够参与各种抗议活动，从而创造了一种全面包容的情感体验。

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Scottish Geographical Journal GEOGRAPHY-

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1.80

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20.00%

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期刊介绍： The Scottish Geographical Journal is the learned publication of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and is a continuation of the Scottish Geographical Magazine, first published in 1885. The Journal was relaunched in its present format in 1999. The Journal is international in outlook and publishes scholarly articles of original research from any branch of geography and on any part of the world, while at the same time maintaining a distinctive interest in and concern with issues relating to Scotland. “The Scottish Geographical Journal mixes physical and human geography in a way that no other international journal does. It deploys a long heritage of geography in Scotland to address the most pressing issues of today."