Conceptualizing 'Everyday Resistance': A Transdisciplinary Approach

ISBN-13: 9781138556546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 212 str.

Sweden) Anna Johansson (University West; Amherst) Stellan Vinthagen (University of Massachusetts

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"Resistance comes in many different forms. It is ultimately about forming assemblies, engaging in collective and/or individual protests and it involves everything from direct oppositions to delay tactics, refusals to collaborate to the creation of alternatives, et cetera. In addressing 'everyday resistance', this timely and well-written book helps us in filling a gap in our current understanding of resistance (practices) and, by extension, social change. In close dialogue with other important scholars in the field, this illuminating, interesting, inspiring and important book is a needed corrective to the existing literature that provides some coherence and congruity to the emerging field of Resistance Studies. I would recommend it to a wide readership, to anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of current (world) politics." — Mikael Baaz, Associate Professor of International Law and Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Gothenburg

Spis treści

Foreword James C. Scott Part 1: A Theoretical Framework: Resistance as Everyday Counter Practice  1. Everyday Resistance as a Concept  2. A Theoretical Approach Beyond Scott and de Certeau  3. Everyday Resistance as Practice  4. Everyday Resistance as Counter Practice   Intermezzo: Towards a Framework That Guides Our Analysis of Everyday Resistance  Part 2: An Analytical Framework: Dimensions of Everyday Resistance  5. Repertoires of Everyday Resistance in Relation to Configurations of Power  6. Relationships of Agents 7. The Spatialization of Everyday Resistance  8. The Temporalization of Everyday Resistance  9. Four Dimensions of Everyday Resistance: The Case of Palestinian Sumūd. Conclusion: Towards a Transdisciplinary Social Science Analysis of Everyday Resistance