Researching Resistance and Social Change

A Critical Approach to Theory and Practice

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Av Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja, Stellan Vinthagen

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Resistance has often been connected with anti-social attitudes, destructiveness, reactionary or revolutionary ideologies, unusual and sudden explosions of violence and emotional outbursts. This book goes beyond these conventions. Exploring various key questions, ranging from concept definitions of affect and temporality, to complex entanglements of various social dimensions and ethical questions, this accessible guide provides a robust theoretical and methodological framework for researching of resistance and social change.By drawing connections between resistance and politics, between performance and everyday strategies, and between the juridical and its counter-strategies, this book provides students with a transdisciplinary understanding of contemporary debates in this emerging field.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-11-13
Mått149 x 230 x 18 mm
Vikt322 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieResistance Studies: Critical Engagements with Power and Social Change
Antal sidor220
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781786601179

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Mikael Baaz is Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies and a Senior Lecturer inInternational Law at the School of Business, Economics and Law, the University ofGothenburg.Mona Lilja is a Professor in Sociology at Karlstad University.Stellan Vinthagen is Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and CivilResistance and Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

1. Introduction: Resistance Studies as an Academic Pursuit / 2. Defining and Categorising “Resistance” / 3. Sovereign Power, Disciplinary power and Biopower: Resisting what Power with what Resistance / 4. How Resistance Encourages Resistance: Theorising the Nexus between Power, “Organised Resistance” and “Everyday Resistance” / 5. Exploring “Irrational” Resistance /6. Affects and Resistance Studies /. Fighting with and against the Time: The “Queering” of Time as Resistance /8. Moral Compulsions, Everyday Resistance and Ethical Research /9. The Ethical Aspects of the “Strategy of Legal Rupture” as Resistance / 10. Conclusion

This is an important book that fills a needed ‘hole’ in our understandings of power and resistance. One of its strengths is the consistent focus on how resistance itself is productive of further resistance…. I would recommend it to advanced undergraduate classes in globalization because often those classes only tell students about the oppressive and destructive aspects of global power relations; students come out of those classes depressed and cynical. This book is a needed corrective. Upper division political science and sociology classes on social change could use this book as required reading.