ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the concept of 'place framing', suggesting it is a useful heuristic for analysing contentious politics by focusing on perspectives within a movement. This chapter suggests that socio-spatial dynamics should also be considered as part of the practice of contentious politics. Revisiting place frames offers a means to focus on practice and discourses of activists, emphasizing the self-understandings of those engaged in contentious politics. Framings from particular movements or contentious political events are not the only source of empirical data about activism, but they offer a starting point for identifying and examining the multivalent spatialities of the politics that result. Aplethora of work by geographers in recent years challenges traditional geographical delineations of concepts such as space, place, and scale, by emphasizing the relationality of each concept, questioning conventional distinctions among them. In particular, geographers have emphasized the multivalent, overlapping, mutually constitutive and relational aspects of space/place/scale.
