Book:
Published
Jan 1, 2021
The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements
The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) explores how activists use spatial agency for organizing. Activists need autonomous space for organizing, and these spaces are made, not found. In this book, Kinder uses examples from radical bookstores and infoshops to analyze the constructive aspects of contentious placemaking. She asks how and why activists insert hubs of contentious politics into everyday landscapes of dissent. These durable hubs are not one-off demonstration sites. Instead, they persist 365 days a year between the spikes of public protest.