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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
Cuprins
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