ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book deals with the struggles of social movements or other political actors as they attempt to build relationships that enable them to act collectively to challenge existing systems of authority and practice. It addresses the actions of their opponents as they attempt to undermine insurgent collective action, breaking the relationships that make movements powerful and threatening to those in dominant positions of power. Spatial technologies of power are particular types of technologies that shape the formation and breaking of relationships technologies that are employed, counter-deployed, and altered in processes of social struggle. Spatial technologies of power are at their root about building, as well as breaking, relationships. The book examines how neighbourhood actors in Athens, Georgia, USA, construct conceptions of place and how these meaningful constructions set the stage for the collective diagnosis of, and motivations for dealing with, grievances.
