ABSTRACT
The connections between social movements and cultural politics, and in particular the cultural framing of "doing politics", have become a key theme of inquiry, which can be expanded and rethought by incorporating a spatial imagination. Clearly, in the cases of social movements and democracy, the inside and outside of the geopolitical are not to be realistically seen as separate but as overlapping and intertwined in a complex of relations. Perhaps one of the most fascinating and complex questions surrounding any treatment of the conjunction of social movements and the political concerns the issue of interpretation itself. The project of neoliberal globalization represents the most recent of invasive discourses and contains the attempted subordination of different modes of thought and interpretation. The alternative development of critical knowledge incites the crossing of borders and the connecting of inside and outside, but it does so in a frame that requires recognition and reciprocity and in a context that transcends containment.
