The Imagineering of Resistance: Pollok Free State and the Practice of Postmodern Politics

Abstract

The conflict over the construction of the M77 motorway in Glasgow, Scotland, is an example of a subculture of resistance which has emerged within Britain over the past fifteen years. The paper focuses upon the actions of Glasgow Earth First!, with whom the author has participated, and on the role of Pollok Free State – an ecological encampment located in the projected path of the motorway. Such resistance is characteristic of a postmodern political practice. It is heterogeneous, symbolic and extensively media‐ted. It eschews the capture of state power but is a lived, immediate resistance, the experience of which may be transmitted over space and time.

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