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Book SynopsisOur world today is experimenting a time of great power but also of tremendous resistances.
Everywhere, people are brought together by similar burdens and frustration and creatively think about how to counter the forms of domination they are ascribed to. In academia as well there is an awakening among scholars to further investigate these multiple forms of resistance and equip the field with useful and empowering knowledge.
This book aims at presenting some of these findings and reflecting upon the implications, social relevance, and ethical challenges of the growing field of Resistance Studies.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: One, Ten, Thousands of Resistances and How to Make Sense of Them. Sarah Murru and Abel Polese
PART I. What Happens in the Everyday?
Chapter 1. Militant Laughter: Play and Resistance in Italian Anti-High Speed Rail Protests. Mateusz Laszczkowski
Chapter 2. Everyday Acts of Citizenship: Infrapolitical Resistance and its Political Consequences in the Age of Social Media. Bojan Baća
Chapter 3. Everyday Resistances in Gentrifying Contexts. Sandra Annunziata and Clara Rivas-Alonso
Chapter 4. Resistance Meets Prefiguration: Understanding Prefiguration and a Critical Analysis Towards the (Im)Possibilities for Practicing Hope. Mónica Soares and Sergio Martín Tapia Argüello
Chapter 5. This Is Our Home: Everyday Resistance of the Palestinians in Israel 1948-66. Marwan Darweish
PART II. What is in a Study of Resistance?
Chapter 6. Resistance as Repoliticization: The Resistance Movement Against the Mega-Prison Project in Brussels. Jérôme Pelenc
Chapter 7. Resistance to the New Green Revolution in Africa: The Revenge of Lives Over Norms. Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka and An Ansoms
Chapter 8. Drawing from Feminist Epistemologies to Research Resistance: The Case of Single Moms in Hanoi. Sarah Murru
Chapter 9. Dalit Responses to the Caste System: Rethinking Resistance. George Kunnath
Chapter 10. Research and the Lack of Politics. Cultural Resistance and the Troubled Times in Poland. Jacek Drozda
Ending Remarks: On Violence and the ‘Scholar-Activist’ Debate. Sarah Murru
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