The New Nanopolitics of the Street

The Nanopolitics handbook, published in 2013 reflected on embodied experiences.

It charts the journey from bodies to a book (ours) back to other bodies (yours and those that you take part in). To do this, the book presents and proposes the practice and political playing field we call nanopolitics. You can call it something else –

whatever you call it; the body is political, traversed by social tensions, a site

of struggles sometimes. The book maps out some of those, and

offers a toolbox for grappling with them in your coltlectivities, relations and

movements. The nanopolitics group began in London in 2010. The problem posed

might seem simple, but it’s rich in consequences: how to think politics with

and through the body? If major politics invest and organise our bodies, how

do we activate our bodily potentialities in different more desirable and consistent ways, together?

Today, having recently certified as a non violent communication trainer, learned to see the world in more complex and relational ways and having raised an unschooler to the age of 14, I'm looking back at the rich and generative practice of Street Training. The politics of public space have always been full and nuanced, how have things changed? Today my enthusiasm is for the part I can now play in bringing together a constellation of those wanting to jump into generating positive change in public spaces for women and children.