Everyday Resistance

Bruno Frère is FNRS Senior Research Associate and Professor at the University of Liege, Belgium, and at Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, France. He is the author or editor of, among other publications, Epistémologie de la Sociologie (with Marc Jacquemain, 2008), Le Nouvel Esprit Solidaire (2009), Résister au Quotidien (with Marc Jacquemain, 2013), Le Tournant de la Théorie Critique (2015) and Repenser l’émancipation (to be published in 2020, with Jean-Louis Laville).Marc Jacquemain is Professor of Sociology at the University of Liege, Belgium. He is the author of La raison névrotique (2002) and Le sens du juste (2005). He is co-editor of, among others, Epistémologie de la sociologie (with Bruno Frère, 2008), Résister au Quotidien (with Bruno Frère, 2013) and Engagements actuels, actualité des engagements (with Pascal Delwit, 2010).

• 1. Introduction: Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom?.- 2. Undocumented Families and Political Communities: Parents Fighting Deportations.- 3. From Indicting the Law to Conquering Rights: A Case Study of Gay Movements in Switzerland, Spain and Belgium.- 4. Fighting for Poor People’s Rights in the French Welfare State.- 5. The Plural Logics of Anti-Capitalist Economic Movements.- 6. The Free Software Community: A Contemporary Space for Reconfiguring Struggles?.- 7. Associations for the Preservation of Small-Scale Farming and Related Organisations.- 8. Ordinary Resistance to Masculine Domination in a Civil Disobedience Movement.- 9. A Zone to Defend: The Utopian Territorial Experiment of Notre Dame des Landes.- 10. “Politics Without Politics”: Affordances and Limitations of the Solidarity Economy’s Libertarian Socialist Grammar.- 11. Is The “New Activism” Really New?.- 12. Conclusion.

“Everyday Resistance makes it an especially innovative, interesting, and ultimately useful read for scholars who are otherwise unable to access, let alone assess, current trends in the Francophone literature.” (Kai A. Heidemann, Mobilization, Vol. 25 (1), March, 2020)