Description

Scholars have increasingly examined the geographies of contentious politics. A spatial perspective afforded by attention to geography illuminates the mobilization, practices and trajectory of the Olympia Port Militarization Resistance (OlyPMR), an anti-war group committed to direct action against the military’s use of ports in and around Olympia, Washington. Through interviews with OlyPMR participants and documental research, this paper shows that place and scale are co-implicated and contingent spatialities inextricably linked together in important ways for collective action.