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Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Communities of Resistance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvEmiliana Mangone,Michele Sorice,Estrella Gualda

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In an era defined by social upheaval and rapid digital transformation, this Handbook offers a compelling exploration of how communities are reshaping the cultural, economic, and political fabric of contemporary life. It argues that today’s social and digital spaces have evolved into a new kind of public “agora” – not simply arenas for critique, but dynamic sites where citizens collectively reinvent the foundations of democratic life.At the heart of the Handbook is the concept of the “community of resistance”: groups of individuals who, facing crisis or unsettling change, come together to protect and reinforce their social bonds, identities, and institutions. Through these collective practices, they forge new forms of participatory citizenship and grassroots activism that challenge traditional power structures.Blending theory, case studies, and critical analysis, the Handbook reveals how these bottom-up initiatives are increasingly shaping political agendas and seeking institutional recognition. It illuminates a vibrant field of democratic experimentation – one in which everyday people are turning resistance into policy, transforming activism into legitimacy, and reimagining what it means to participate in public life. It will appeal to students and scholars in the social sciences, particularly to those interested in community, the digital transformation of society, social movements, and political resistance.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-30
Mått174 x 246 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge International Handbooks
Antal sidor280
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032993119

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Emiliana Mangone is Full Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes at the Department of Political and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno (Italy). Her main research interests are in the field of cultural and institutional systems, with particular attention to the social representations, relational processes, knowledge, and narrative as key elements to the human act, in migration studies, and as well as the study of the thought of Pitirim A. Sorokin. She recently published: Towards a Sociology of Hope: Looking Beyond (with G. Gili) (2025) and Culture and Everyday Life in Rela(c)tion (with G. Russo) (2025).Michele Sorice is Full Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Communication and Social Research (CoRiS), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His main research activities are in the field of critical sociology and critical media studies (communication and civic engagement, digital platforms and media, media and democracy, democratic innovation and participatory processes, political communication, neoliberalism and depoliticisation, digital activism and social movements). He recently published: The Public Role of Italian Sociology: Among Institutions, Universities and Social Engagement (The American Sociologist, 2024) (with L. Viviani) and Confini invisibili. Comunità liminali e pratiche di resistenza nella città neoliberista (2024) (with M.C. Antonucci and A. Volterrani).Estrella Gualda is Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Huelva (Spain), where she served as Director of the Social Studies and Social Intervention Research Centre (1995–2026). She is a Full Member of the Academia Iberoamericana de La Rábida. Her current research focuses on social, political, economic and cultural issues, with emphasis on digital and computational sociology, including conspiracy theories and hate-related narratives, and advances in research methods, techniques, and software for the social sciences. She recently published: Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Augmented Analytics vs Big Data and Data Science: New Avenues for Social Research (Revista CENTRA de Ciencias Sociales, 2026).

PART I: INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: BETWEEN EXISTING AND RESISTING; 1. Rethinking the concept of community in its many forms within the fragmented society; 2. Communities of resistance between empowerment and direct social action; 3. Virtual Communities as Communities of Resistance: Past Experiences and New Challenges on the Platform Society; PART II: RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE; 4. Solidarities of Difference as a Theoretical Foundation for Communities of Resistance; 5. Religious communities as sites of resistance: beyond identity; 6. Communities of Food Activists: Communication and Prefigurative Politics in Solidarity Purchasing Groups (GAS); 7. Commoning Resistance: Food Sovereignty and New Rurality in the Cilento Region in Southern Italy; 8. From communities of resistance to resilient communities: Practices for building a new post-disaster social order; PART III: COMMUNITY PRACTICES: COLLECTIVE ACTION AND DIRECT SOCIAL ACTIONS; 9. Communities: Between resisting and existing; 10. Social and racial inequalities in Brazil: A look at anti-racist resistance struggles in contemporary times; 11. Indigenous peoples and planetary health: From resistance to governance; 12. Confronting the State: Forming Political Communities, Visibilising Disapearance in Algeria; 13. (Re)claiming Taiwan: Indigenous people and Taiwanese energy transition - between reclaiming land, constructing identity, and building security; 14. Enabling or Hindering Resistant Knowledge? Comparing Interactions Between State and Anti-Violence Against Women Movements in Denmark and Italy; 15. Solidarity Economy Initiatives as Communities of Resistance in Lebanon; PART IV: ANTAGONISM AND CULTURAL RESISTANCE IN ANALOGICAL AND DIGITAL SPACE; 16. Digital Publics as Emotional Communities in the Context of Therapeutic Culture: The Search for Optimal Emotion Management for Mindful Problem Solving (Mindfulness School in Contemporary Russia); 17. Affective publics and participatory security: digital communities of resistance in the Donnexstrada and Scrivi quando arrivi cases; 18. Communities in the Game World Between Online and Offline: Virtual Terrain Between Activism, Social Influence and Resistance; 19. Artistic practices and community of resistance: The Encounter Between Kepler-452 and the ex-GKN Workers' Movement; 20. Poetry Between Technocreative and Community Process; CONCLUSIONS; 21. Conclusions. Community Between Practices and Resistance: New Challenges