"Scoping" the Routes, Roots, and Rights to the City: "Mobilities of Vision" and Reading the Social Movement Landscape of Thessaloniki, Greece. Issue 2 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Baker, James E.; Clancy, Kelly A.
• Is Part Of: GeoHumanities. Volume 6:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 252
• Page End: 279
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: Lefebvre -- mobility -- positionality -- scopic regimes -- social movements -- urban space -- visual methodologies; 列斐伏尔 -- 流动性 -- 位置性 -- 视觉体制 -- 社会运动 -- 城市空间 -- 视觉方法; espacio urbano -- Lefebvre -- metodologías visuales -- movilidad -- movimientos sociales -- posicionalidad -- regímenes de contemplación activa; Arts and geography -- Periodicals; Human geography -- Periodicals; 304.2
• DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2020.1773686
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2373-566X

Abstract

Abstract : This paper uses a novel qualitative visual methodology—scoping—to interrogate the Lefebvrian right to the city across the social movement landscape of Thessaloniki, Greece. Generating a reflexive and experimental visual field practice, we narrativize photographs and field notes taken in central Thessaloniki in May, 2018, where we intervene in touristic scopic regimes as family-tourists-researchers, negotiating spaces where claims to roots, routes, and rights to the city are performed. We consider the placemaking tactics of a solidarity march for LGBTQI refugees in Thessaloniki and appropriations of public space for "simultaneity and encounter" through autogestion, followed by a nationalist Pontic Greek rally which put the mayor of Thessaloniki in hospital and into global media discourse. Our methods of "picturing power" seek to reimagine Lefebvre's "right to the city" by offering an account of the knitting together of subjects, materials, and traces which enact kinetic and multivocal revelations of activist politics in urban space.