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Constructive resistance occurs when people start to build the
society they desire independently of and in opposition to the
dominant structures already in place. Through case studies and
illustrative examples from around the world, this book explores how
people working for a more just, sustainable and peaceful future
combine construction and resistance. The book provides students and
practitioners of resistance with tools to detect, critically
discuss and evaluate cases of constructive resistance. While some
movements focus mainly on either construction or resistance, the
authors argue that those who manage to creatively combine the two
are likely to achieve more far-reaching goals and see their results
become more durable.
Resistance has often been connected with anti-social attitudes,
destructiveness, reactionary or revolutionary ideologies, unusual
and sudden explosions of violence and emotional outbursts. This
book goes beyond these conventions. Exploring various key
questions, ranging from concept definitions of affect and
temporality, to complex entanglements of various social dimensions
and ethical questions, this accessible guide provides a robust
theoretical and methodological framework for researching of
resistance and social change. By drawing connections between
resistance and politics, between performance and everyday
strategies, and between the juridical and its counter-strategies,
this book provides students with a transdisciplinary understanding
of contemporary debates in this emerging field.
Resistance has often been connected with anti-social attitudes,
destructiveness, reactionary or revolutionary ideologies, unusual
and sudden explosions of violence and emotional outbursts. This
book goes beyond these conventions. Exploring various key
questions, ranging from concept definitions of affect and
temporality, to complex entanglements of various social dimensions
and ethical questions, this accessible guide provides a robust
theoretical and methodological framework for researching of
resistance and social change. By drawing connections between
resistance and politics, between performance and everyday
strategies, and between the juridical and its counter-strategies,
this book provides students with a transdisciplinary understanding
of contemporary debates in this emerging field.
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.
Tackling Trident is about two unique academic conferences in which
an international group of academics, while discussing scientific
conference papers, simultaneously blockaded Faslane Naval Base,
home of the UK's Trident system of nuclear weapons of mass
destruction, in Scotland, in January and June 2007. This book
presents the academics that took part in the innovative 'Academic
Conference Blockades', the conference papers that outlines the
scientific rational behind their nuclear resistance, and the year
long campaign - Faslane 365 - in which this 'critique in action'
occurred. Tackling Trident is a book written by engaged academics
that tackles nuclear weapon issues, Trident, academic
responsibility, and possibilities for academic, personal and social
change. This book is a fundamental challenge to the suggested
scientific legitimacy of nuclear weapon 'defence', and the
suggested political and moral 'neutrality' of academia. Mary
Kaldor, John Foster, Richard Jolly, and John Hull
In this ground-breaking and much-needed book, Stellan Vinthagen
provides the first major systematic attempt to develop a theory of
nonviolent action since Gene Sharp's seminal The Politics of
Nonviolent Action in 1973. Employing a rich collection of
historical and contemporary social movements from various parts of
the world as examples - from the civil rights movement in America
to anti-Apartheid protestors in South Africa to Gandhi and his
followers in India - and addressing core theoretical issues
concerning nonviolent action in an innovative, penetrating way,
Vinthagen argues for a repertoire of nonviolence that combines
resistance and construction. Contrary to earlier research, this
repertoire - consisting of dialogue facilitation, normative
regulation, power breaking and utopian enactment - is shown to be
both multidimensional and contradictory, creating difficult
contradictions within nonviolence, while simultaneously providing
its creative and transformative force. An important contribution in
the field, A Theory of Nonviolent Action is essential for anyone
involved with nonviolent action who wants to think about what they
are doing.
In this ground-breaking and much-needed book, Stellan Vinthagen
provides the first major systematic attempt to develop a theory of
nonviolent action since Gene Sharp's seminal The Politics of
Nonviolent Action in 1973. Employing a rich collection of
historical and contemporary social movements from various parts of
the world as examples - from the civil rights movement in America
to anti-Apartheid protestors in South Africa to Gandhi and his
followers in India - and addressing core theoretical issues
concerning nonviolent action in an innovative, penetrating way,
Vinthagen argues for a repertoire of nonviolence that combines
resistance and construction. Contrary to earlier research, this
repertoire - consisting of dialogue facilitation, normative
regulation, power breaking and utopian enactment - is shown to be
both multidimensional and contradictory, creating difficult
contradictions within nonviolence, while simultaneously providing
its creative and transformative force. An important contribution in
the field, A Theory of Nonviolent Action is essential for anyone
involved with nonviolent action who wants to think about what they
are doing.
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