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Everyday resistance is about the many ways people undermine power
and domination through their routine and everyday actions. Unlike
open rebellions or demonstrations, it is typically hidden, not
politically articulated, and often ingenious. But because of its
disguised nature, it is often poorly understood as a form of
politics and its potential underestimated. Conceptualizing
'Everyday Resistance' presents an analytical framework and
theoretical tools to understand the entanglements of everyday power
and resistance. These are applied to diverse empirical cases
including queer relationships in the context of heteronormativity,
Palestinian daily life under military occupation, workplace
behaviors under office surveillance, and the tactics of fat
acceptance bloggers facing the war against obesity. Johansson and
Vinthagen argue that everyday resistance is best understood by
accounting for different repertoires of tactics, relations between
actors and struggles around constructions of time and space.
Through a critical dialogue with the work of James C. Scott, Michel
de Certeau and Asef Bayat, they aim to reconstruct the field of
resistance studies, expanding what counts as resistance and
building systematic analysis. Conceptualizing 'Everyday Resistance'
offers researchers and students from different theoretical and
empirical backgrounds an essential overview of the field and a
creative framework that illuminates the potential of all people to
transform society.
Everyday resistance is about the many ways people undermine power
and domination through their routine and everyday actions. Unlike
open rebellions or demonstrations, it is typically hidden, not
politically articulated, and often ingenious. But because of its
disguised nature, it is often poorly understood as a form of
politics and its potential underestimated. Conceptualizing
'Everyday Resistance' presents an analytical framework and
theoretical tools to understand the entanglements of everyday power
and resistance. These are applied to diverse empirical cases
including queer relationships in the context of heteronormativity,
Palestinian daily life under military occupation, workplace
behaviors under office surveillance, and the tactics of fat
acceptance bloggers facing the war against obesity. Johansson and
Vinthagen argue that everyday resistance is best understood by
accounting for different repertoires of tactics, relations between
actors and struggles around constructions of time and space.
Through a critical dialogue with the work of James C. Scott, Michel
de Certeau and Asef Bayat, they aim to reconstruct the field of
resistance studies, expanding what counts as resistance and
building systematic analysis. Conceptualizing 'Everyday Resistance'
offers researchers and students from different theoretical and
empirical backgrounds an essential overview of the field and a
creative framework that illuminates the potential of all people to
transform society.
This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being
made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political
struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and
colonial norms. As researchers located in Sweden, a nation often
cited as one of the most gender-equal and LGBTQ-tolerant nations,
the contributions investigate political processes, decolonial
struggles, and events beyond, nearby, and in between organizations,
states, and national territories. The collection represents a
variety of disciplines, and different theoretical
conceptualizations of politics, feminist theory, and postcolonial
and queer studies. Students and researchers with an interest of
queer studies, gender studies, critical whiteness studies, and
civil society studies will find this book an invaluable resource.
This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being
made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political
struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and
colonial norms. As researchers located in Sweden, a nation often
cited as one of the most gender-equal and LGBTQ-tolerant nations,
the contributions investigate political processes, decolonial
struggles, and events beyond, nearby, and in between organizations,
states, and national territories. The collection represents a
variety of disciplines, and different theoretical
conceptualizations of politics, feminist theory, and postcolonial
and queer studies. Students and researchers with an interest of
queer studies, gender studies, critical whiteness studies, and
civil society studies will find this book an invaluable resource.
An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that
traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience.
Spotify provides a streaming service that has been welcomed as
disrupting the world of music. Yet such disruption always comes at
a price. Spotify Teardown contests the tired claim that digital
culture thrives on disruption. Borrowing the notion of "teardown"
from reverse-engineering processes, in this book a team of five
researchers have playfully disassembled Spotify's product and the
way it is commonly understood. Spotify has been hailed as the
solution to illicit downloading, but it began as a partly illicit
enterprise that grew out of the Swedish file-sharing community.
Spotify was originally praised as an innovative digital platform
but increasingly resembles a media company in need of regulation,
raising questions about the ways in which such cultural content as
songs, books, and films are now typically made available online.
Spotify Teardown combines interviews, participant observations, and
other analyses of Spotify's "front end" with experimental, covert
investigations of its "back end." The authors engaged in a series
of interventions, which include establishing a record label for
research purposes, intercepting network traffic with packet
sniffers, and web-scraping corporate materials. The authors'
innovative digital methods earned them a stern letter from Spotify
accusing them of violating its terms of use; the company later
threatened their research funding. Thus, the book itself became an
intervention into the ethics and legal frameworks of corporate
behavior.
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