Resistance in Everyday Life: Constructing Cultural Experiences

ISBN-13: 9789811099120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 328 str.

Nandita Chaudhary; Pernille Hviid; Giuseppina Marsico

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Rhythms of resistance and existence Nandita Chaudhary, Pernille Hviid, Giuseppina Marsico, Jakob Waag Villadsen. -Section 1: Cultural productions through resistance.  -2.   Dalit women in India: Crafting narratives of success Savita Sagar and Vinita Bhargava. -3. The third gender and their identity in India society Nandita Chaudhary and Shashi Shukla.  -4.    Trajectories of resistance and historical reflections, Constance de Saint-Laurent. -5. Children finding their ways through life spaces: Glimpses from the Indian ecology Shipra Suneja and Bhanumathi Sharma. -6.  Adolescent dissent and conflict resolution in the Indian context Neerja Sharma. -7.     Cultural scripts, dialogue and performance: Creating processes for resistance and resolve Asha Singh. -Section 2: Conflicts, stability and renewal. -8. Anjani: Unspoken resistance Ayesha Sindhu. -9.     Resisting but accepting ideology: Making sense through doublethink David Carré. -10.     Making meaning out of a lifetime: The life and times of Indira Gandhi Punya Pillai. -11.     The street art of resistance: The case of revolutionary graffiti artists in Cairo Sarah H. Awad, Brady Wagoner and Vlad Glaveanu. -12.  Resisting inequality but loving those cheap ironed shirts: Danish expatriates’ experiences of becoming employers of domestic staff in India Sanna Schliewe. -13.  Children’s resistance in the emergence of learning as leading activity: Playfulness in the transformation of spaces of participation Paula Alejandra Cavada Hrepich. -Section 3: Resistance serves the transformation. -14. Seeing imagination as resistance and resistance as imagination Luca Tateo. -15. Classical Indian dance and the dancer: Engaging with tradition and modernity Vinita Bhargava and Priya Srinivasan. -16.     Culture, gender and resistance: Perspectives from India, Shraddha Kapoor Varoona Nagpal , Pooja Maggu. -17.   Oedipus meets Ganesha: A prospective Psychoanalyst’s encounters with India Dominik Stefan Mihalits. -18.  Resisting early marriage: A Case Study from the tea gardens of Assam Dipjyoti Konwar, Vinita Bhargava and Bhanumathi Sharma. -19.    Women in Indian families: Resisting, every day Mila Tuli. -20. General Conclusions – Rhythms of resistance: A way forward Nandita Chaudhary and Jaan Valsiner. 

O autorze

Nandita Chaudhary is Associate Professor at the Department of Human Development and Childhood Studies, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India.

Pernille Hviid is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Giuseppina Marsico is Assistant Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the Department of Human, Philosophic and Education Sciences, University of Salerno, Italy.

Jakob Waag Villadsen is a Ph.D. fellow at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Blurb

This book is about resistance in everyday life, illustrated through empirical contexts from different parts of the world. Resistance is a widespread phenomenon in biological, social and psychological domains of human cultural development. Yet, it is not well articulated in the academic literature and, when it is, resistance is most often considered counter-productive. Simple evaluations of resistance as positive or negative are avoided in this volume; instead it is conceptualised as a vital process for human development and well-being. While resistance is usually treated as an extraordinary occurrence, the focus here is on everyday resistance as an intentional process where new meaning constructions emerge in thinking, feeling, acting or simply living with others. Resistance is thus conceived as a meaning-making activity that operates at the intersection of personal and collective systems.

The contributors deal with strategies for handling dissent by individuals or groups, specifically dissent through resistance. Resistance can be a location of intense personal, interpersonal and cultural negotiation, and that is the primary reason for interest in this phenomenon. Ordinary life events contain innumerable instances of agency and resistance. This volume discusses their manifestations, and it is therefore of interest for academics and researchers of cultural psychology, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and human development.