David Courpasson & Steven Vallas 
The SAGE Handbook of Resistance [EPUB ebook] 

Chosen by Library Journal as one of the best reference texts of 2016. 



Occupy. Indignados. The Tea Party. The Arab Spring. Anonymous. These and other terms have become part of an emerging lexicon in recent years, signalling an important development that has gripped many parts of the world: millions of people are increasingly involved, whether directly or indirectly, in movements of resistance and protestation.



However, resistance and its conceptual ‘companions’, protest, contestation, opposition, disobedience and mobilization, all seem to be still mostly seen in public and private discourses as illegitimate and problematic forms of action. The time is, therefore, ripe to delve into the concerns, themes and legitimacy.




The SAGE Handbook of Resistance offers theoretical essays enabling readers to forge their own perspectives of what ‘is’ resistance and emphasizes the empirical and experiential dimension of resistance – making strong choices in terms of how contemporary topics related to resistance help to rethink our societies as ‘protest societies’. The coverage is divided into six key sub-sections:  

• Foundations


• Sites of Resistance


• Technologies of Resistance


• Languages of Resistance


• Geographies of Resistance


• Consequences of Resistance

Daftar Isi

Resistance Studies: A Critical Introduction – David Courpasson and Steven Vallas

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS

Chapter 1: Globalization, Resistance, and Social Transformation – Jeffrey Juris and Marina Sitrin

Chapter 2: Emerging Subjectivity in Protest – Bob Kurik

Chapter 3: Islam: Fundamentalism and Insurgency in the Arab Spring – Valentine M. Moghadam

Chapter 4: The Grand Refusal?: Struggling with Alternative Foucauldian-Inspired Approaches to Resistance at Work – David Knights

Chapter 5: Resisting the 24/7 Work Ethic – Shifting Modes of Regulation and Refusal in Organized Employment – André Spicer and Peter Fleming

PART TWO: SITES OF RESISTANCE

Chapter 6: The Body as a Site of Resistance – Erynn Masai de Casanova & Afshan Jafar

Chapter 7: The Complexities and Contradictions of Resistance: An Intersectional Perspective – Amanda M. Gengler

Chapter 8: Individual Constraint and Group Solidarity: Marginalized Mothers and the Paradox of Family Responsibility – Jillian Crocker

Chapter 9: Protecting Our Children: Paradoxes of Resistance in an Era of Neoliberal Education – Linda Blum & Shelley Kimelberg

Chapter 10: Resistance in Organizational Strategy-Making – Anniina Rantakari and Eero Vaara

Chapter 11: Prisons as Sites of Power and Resistance – Tammi Arford

PART THREE: TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER AND RESISTANCE

Chapter 12: Recasting Community for Online Resisting Work – Felipe G. Massa

Chapter 13: Between Grassroots and ‘Astroturf’: Understanding Mobilization from the Top-down – Edward T. Walker

Chapter 14: From Digital Tools to Political Infrastructure – Marianne Maeckelbergh

Chapter 15: Resisting the New: On Cooptation and the Organisational Conditions for Entrepreneurship – Daniel Hjorth

PART FOUR: LANGUAGES OF RESISTANCE

Chapter 16: Musical Style, Youth Subcultures, and Cultural Resistance – Ryan Moore

Chapter 17: Graffitti as Infrapolitics: A Study of Visual Interventions of Resistance in San Francisco – Guillaume Marche

Chapter 18: Naming, Shaming, Changing the World – Gay Seidman

Chapter 19: Contesting Authority in a Moralized Market: The Case of a Catholic Hospital Unionization Campaign – Adam Reich

Chapter 20: Organizational Change and Resistance: An Identity Perspective – Sierk Ybema, Robyn Thomas & Cynthia Hardy

PART FIVE: GEOGRAPHIES OF RESISTANCE

Chapter 21: The World Social Forum and Global Resistance: The Trajectory of an Activist Open Space – Giuseppe Caruso

Chapter 22: Back to Work: Resisting Clientelism in a Poor Neighborhood of Buenos Aires – Pablo Fernandez

Chapter 23: Bases of Governance and Forms of Resistance: The Case of Rural China – Xueguang Zhou & Yun Ai

Chapter 24: Resistance and its Pitfalls: Analyzing NGO and Civil Society Politics in Bangladesh – Lamia Karim

Chapter 25: Urban Gardening: Between Green Resistance and Ideological Instrument – Sandrine Baudry & Emeline Eudes