Everyday Resistance
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Everyday Resistance

French Activism in the 21st Century

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eBook - ePub

Everyday Resistance

French Activism in the 21st Century

About this book

This book studies those who, in various domains of life, are resisting the increasingly harsh day-to-day pressures of "late capitalism, " centering mainly on French examples. Far from the global euphoria of the sixties and seventies, everyday people are trying to loosen the grip of injustice in very concrete ways: people experiencing homelessness try to occupy and live in empty buildings; collectives of small farmers and consumers avoid long (and costly) commercial supply chains to defend their common interests; students and teachers organize to prevent the expulsion of undocumented migrants; and activists in the free software movement fight for the "common ownership" of software and of the Internet. Through civil disobedience in the midst of daily life, people are trying to resist, work against, and change laws that protect the interests of firms and corporations considered socially or ecologically unfair.

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Yes, you can access Everyday Resistance by Bruno Frère, Marc Jacquemain, Bruno Frère,Marc Jacquemain in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Political History & Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

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