Resistance

Subjects, Representations, Contexts

Martin Butler, Paul Mecheril, Lea Brenningmeyer, Martin Butler, Paul Mecheril, Lea Brenningmeyer

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9783837631494
• eBook ISBN: 9783839431498
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: Social Sciences

All around the world and throughout history, resistance has played an important role – and it still does. Some strive to raise it to cause change. Some dare not to speak of it. Some try to smother it to keep a status quo.

The contributions to this volume explore phenomena of resistance in a range of historical and contemporary environments. In so doing, they not only contribute to shaping a comparative view on subjects, representations, and contexts of resistance, but also open up a theoretical dialogue on terms and concepts of resistance both in and across different disciplines.

With contributions by Micha Brumlik, Peter McLaren, and others.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction. Coming to Terms—On the Aim and Scope of this Volume
• Resistance. Carl von Ossietzky, Albert Leo Schlageter, and Mahatma Gandhi
• More than Resistance. Striving for Universalization
• Popular Culture, ‘Resistance,’ ‘Cultural Radicalism,’ and ‘Self-Formation’. Comments on the Development of a Theory
• Resistance as a Way out of One-Dimensionality. The Contribution of Herbert Marcuse to a Critical Analysis of the Present
• Border Crossing as Act of Resistance. The Autonomy of Migration as Theoretical Intervention into Border Studies
• Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming the Rights. The Commons and the Omnipresence of Resistance
• “All Those Who Know the Term ‘Gentrification’ are Part of the Problem”. Self-Reflexivity in Urban Activism and Cultural Production
• Images of Protest. On the “Woman in the Blue Bra” and Relational Testimony
• Connecting Origin and Innocence. Myths of Resistance in European Memory Cultures after 1945
• Into the Darkness: Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy for a Socialist Society. A Manifesto
• List of Contributors