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The SAGE Handbook of Resistance
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The SAGE Handbook of Resistance
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Chosen by Library Journal as one of the best reference texts of 2016.Â
Occupy. Indignados. The Tea Party. The Arab Spring. Anonymous. These and other terms have become part of an emerging lexicon in recent years, signalling an important development that has gripped many parts of the world: millions of people are increasingly involved, whether directly or indirectly, in movements of resistance and protestation.
However, resistance and its conceptual "companions", protest, contestation, opposition, disobedience and mobilization, all seem to be still mostly seen in public and private discourses as illegitimate and problematic forms of action. The time is, therefore, ripe to delve into the concerns, themes and legitimacy.
The SAGE Handbook of Resistance offers theoretical essays enabling readers to forge their own perspectives of what "is" resistance and emphasizes the empirical and experiential dimension of resistance - making strong choices in terms of how contemporary topics related to resistance help to rethink our societies as "protest societies". The coverage is divided into six key sub-sections: Â
Occupy. Indignados. The Tea Party. The Arab Spring. Anonymous. These and other terms have become part of an emerging lexicon in recent years, signalling an important development that has gripped many parts of the world: millions of people are increasingly involved, whether directly or indirectly, in movements of resistance and protestation.
However, resistance and its conceptual "companions", protest, contestation, opposition, disobedience and mobilization, all seem to be still mostly seen in public and private discourses as illegitimate and problematic forms of action. The time is, therefore, ripe to delve into the concerns, themes and legitimacy.
The SAGE Handbook of Resistance offers theoretical essays enabling readers to forge their own perspectives of what "is" resistance and emphasizes the empirical and experiential dimension of resistance - making strong choices in terms of how contemporary topics related to resistance help to rethink our societies as "protest societies". The coverage is divided into six key sub-sections: Â
- Foundations
- Sites of Resistance
- Technologies of Resistance
- Languages of Resistance
- Geographies of Resistance
- Consequences of Resistance
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustration List
- Notes on the Editors and Contributors
- Resistance Studies: A Critical Introduction
- Part I Foundations
- 1 Globalization, Resistance, and Social Transformation
- 2 Emerging Subjectivity in Protest
- 3 Islamism, Feminism, and Resistance: Rethinking the Arab Spring
- 4 The Grand Refusal?: Struggling with Alternative Foucauldian Inspired Approaches to Resistance at Work
- 5 Resisting the 24/7 Work Ethic â Shifting Modes of Regulation and Refusal in Organized Employment
- Part II Sites of Resistance
- 6 The Body as a Site of Resistance
- 7 The Complexities and Contradictions of Resistance: An Intersectional Perspective
- 8 Individual Constraint and Group Solidarity: Marginalized Mothers and the Paradox of Family Responsibility
- 9 Protecting Our Children: Paradoxes of Resistance in an Era of Neoliberal Education
- 10 Resistance in Organizational Strategy-Making
- 11 Prisons as Sites of Power/Resistance
- Part III Technologies of Power and Resistance
- 12 Recasting Community for Online Resisting Work
- 13 Between Grassroots and âAstroturfâ: Understanding Mobilization from the Top-Down
- 14 From Digital Tools to Political Infrastructure
- 15 Resisting the New: On Cooptation and the Organisational Conditions for Entrepreneurship
- Part IV Languages of Resistance
- 16 Musical Style, Youth Subcultures, and Cultural Resistance
- 17 Graffiti As Infrapolitics: A Study of Visual Interventions of Resistance in San Francisco
- 18 Naming, Shaming, Changing the World
- 19 Contesting Authority in a Moralized Market: The Case of a Catholic Hospital Unionization Campaign
- 20 Organizational Change and Resistance: An Identity Perspective
- Part V Geographies of Resistance
- 21 The World Social Forum and Global Resistance: The Trajectory of an Activist Open Space
- 22 Back to Work: Resisting Clientelism in a Poor Neighborhood of Buenos Aires
- 23 Bases of Governance and Forms of Resistance: The Case of Rural China
- 24 Resistance and its Pitfalls: Analyzing NGO and Civil Society Politics in Bangladesh
- 25 Urban Gardening: Between Green Resistance and Ideological Instrument
- Index