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This article expands on the quotidian perspectives of 'ordinary cities' and 'everyday resistance' and explores the migrant urbanisms that emerge out of movement, mixing and exchange. The article argues for a shift beyond a focus on encounter across racial and ethnic difference, to engage with whether everyday social practice can effectively contaminate political practice. The question is raised within the understanding that everyday life is rooted in inequality, and extends to an analysis of migrant participation in city life as creative expression and everyday resistance. Against a pernicious migrancy problematic in the UK that defines migration as an external force assaulted on national integrity from the outside, I explore migrant urbanisms as participatory practices of reconfiguration within ordinary cities, where diversity and innovation intersect At the core of this exploration is how migrants are active in the making of urban space and urban politics.

Contemporary governments employ a range of policy tools to ‘activate’ the unemployed to look for work. Framing unemployment as a consequence of personal shortcoming, these policies incentivise the unemployed to become ‘productive’ members of society. While Foucault’s governmentality framework has been used to foreground the operation of power within these policies, ‘job-seeker’ resistance has received less attention. In particular, forms of emotional resistance have rarely been studied. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 80 unemployed welfare recipients in Australia, this article shows that many unemployed people internalise activation’s discourses of personal failure, experiencing shame and worthlessness as a result. It also reveals, however, that a significant minority reject this framing and the ‘feeling rules’ it implies, expressing not shame but anger regarding their circumstances. Bringing together insights from resistance studies and the sociology of emotions, this article argues that ‘job-seeker’ anger should be recognised as an important form of ‘everyday resistance’.

Mounting climate-related floods, fires, droughts and storms across the globe raise crucial questions about the role of law in adjudicating rights and obligations. While climate litigation attracts scholarly attention, vulnerable populations often lack the means to use formal laws and courts. We draw on ethnographic interviews conducted in 2022 in the city of Cartagena, Colombia, to study how residents of informal settlements exposed to flooding resist exclusionary climate adaptation laws. The findings show how formal law has exacerbated differential climate vulnerability, and resulted in “seawalls for the rich, relocation (and stalled adaptation) for the poor.” In this context, residents claim land in risk-zones through a local rule system known as “the law of the four poles.” We argue that by challenging the legality of the state, and creating a rival legal order that better represents locally identified interests and entitlements, they are claiming a political voice in climate adaptation. We advance theory in both climate adaptation and sociology of law and discuss how the law can better reflect not only the science behind climate change but also the interest and needs of marginalized communities.

This article explores the ways in which homeless Black queer and trans youth embody and perform everyday acts of temporal and spatial resistance in Toronto’s gay village. By analysing interviews, mental maps and photographs from my research with homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and Two-Spirit (LGBTQ2) youth, I present how homeless Black queer and trans youth counter the whiteness and anti-Black racism they frequently experience in the village through acts of remembering and placemaking. Specifically, I argue that despite the small-scale reach of the everyday resistance that manifests in our interviews, temporal and spatial resistance challenge the whitewashing of Toronto’s gay village, which is particularly crucial in a moment when the village is centred in conversations of anti-Black racism in the city’s queer community. Engaging in these forms of everyday resistance illustrates the ways in which homeless Black LGBTQ youth instruct their own placemaking in an otherwise uninhabitably racialised neighbourhood, shift narratives of their experiences in processes of knowledge production and spark processes of their own politicisation and community building. 本文探讨无家可归的黑人酷儿和跨性别青年在多伦多的同性恋村庄中体现和进行日常时空反抗行为的方式。通过分析我对无家可归的女同性恋者、男同性恋者、双性恋者、变性者、酷儿和双灵者 (LGBTQ2) 青年的研究中产生的访谈、心理地图和照片，我展示了无家可归的黑人酷儿和双灵者青年如何在同性恋村庄通过记念活动和地方营造来对抗他们经常经历的白人至上和反黑人种族主义。具体来说，我认为，尽管我们的采访所揭示的、日常的抵抗都是小规模的，但时间和空间上的抵抗挑战了对多伦多同性恋村庄的粉饰，这在这个村庄正处于城市同性恋社区反黑人种族主义对话的关键时刻尤为重要。参与这些形式的日常抵抗表明了无家可归的黑人男女同性恋、双性恋、变性者和跨性别青年如何在一个原本无法居住的种族主义社区指导他们自己的地方营造，改变对他们在知识生产过程中的经历的叙述，并激发他们自己的政治化和社区建设进程。

Background Joy is a powerful and necessary counterpoint to the challenges faced by sexual and gender minoritized (SGM) communities. This study explores how SGM young adults of color in Orange County, California, cultivate joy as a form of everyday resistance and well-being in the face of systemic oppression. Methods Drawing on a participatory action research approach, we used PhotoVoice to engage 19 Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) SGM young adults as co-researchers. Participants documented and reflected on everyday experiences of joy through photographs and accompanying narratives, which were thematically analyzed. Results Informed by Johansson and Vinthagen’s Everyday Resistance framework, we found that participants engaged in acts of detachment as a strategy for cultivating joy and resisting the demands of neoliberal productivity culture, including expectations of constant self-optimization, emotional endurance, and conformity. Conclusions The study affirms the value of PhotoVoice in capturing the complex interplay between identity, environments, and systemic oppression. Centering joy in public health research can inform more affirming and culturally responsive interventions.

Foucault's concept of heterotopia refers to a space of resistance situated in the realm of in-betweenness, where alternative forms of existence become possible. In relation to the LGBTQ community, this notion has been recontextualised into queer heterotopia, a space that enables LGBTQ individuals to live without conforming to heteronormative standards. This study examines queer heterotopia in Malaysian queer literature through selected short stories in Body2Body: A Malaysian Queer Anthology (2009), while also incorporating the Chinese metaphysical concept of yin-yang. It argues that queer heterotopia cannot emerge independently; rather, it is preceded and sustained by a yin-inclined space associated with femininity, darkness, fluidity, and secrecy. For characters living on the margins, the yin space provides the conditions necessary to form resistance. Within the anthology, queer characters navigating hostile environments draw on yin energy to reach queer heterotopias, where they articulate their identities through performative, emotive, and sexual expressions as forms of everyday resistance. The findings suggest that resistance within queer heterotopia need not be overt or confrontational; even when subtle and nuanced, resistance rooted in the yin space remains empowering, prompting characters to assert meaningful agency in their existence.

Prevailing narratives in digital studies depict algorithms as opaque tools of domination, controlling user experiences and reinforcing asymmetrical power dynamics, sidelining the potential for user resistance. In line with a growing body of more nuanced perspectives, this article challenges these portrayals by exploring how online users resist algorithmic outcomes through creative and astute strategies by drawing on 27 interviews and 3 focus groups with e-commerce platform users. Combining insights from everyday resistance theories and contemporary debates on algorithmic resistance, the article frames algorithmic flexibility, the inherent programmatic contingency of algorithms, as a structural enabler for e-commerce users to influence algorithmic outcomes. The investigation of e-commerce platforms, where algorithms exert tangible influence over users’ finances, provides a valuable, yet understudied, empirical site for analysing how algorithmic resistance unfolds in daily economic life. In doing so, the paper extends conceptualisations of algorithms as instruments of power and resistance into the realm of mundane, self-interested, and often individualised encounters with algorithms. By foregrounding the entangled nature of algorithmic power and user resistance, digital platforms are positioned not as sites of unilateral control but as dynamic arenas of continuous negotiation.

Recently, there has been a rapid proliferation of scholarship on resistance but little consensus on its definition. In this paper, we review and synthesize the diverse literatures that invoke the concept of resistance. This review illuminates both core elements common to most uses of the concept and two central dimensions on which these uses vary: the questions of whether resistance must be recognized by others and whether it must be intentional. We use these two dimensions to develop a typology of resistance, thereby clarifying both the meaning and sociological utility of this concept.

This article explores how queer migrants' experiences reveal the complex dynamics of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and everyday resistance. Utilising a socio-anthropological and geographical approach, it examines the intersections of migration, queerness, and resistance in Türkiye - a leading refugee-hosting country with diverse origins driven by various motivations. Focusing on queer migrants who navigate among political and gender boundaries that often homogenise migration narratives, the study draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Türkiye from 2019 to 2024. It highlights the structural violence and oppression shaping their experiences and investigates İstanbul as a potential queer oasis for life experiences that have been positioned on the margins of dominant gender and racial norms. Furthermore, the article examines how vulnerability is transformed into everyday resistance, showcasing diverse narratives that subvert the prevailing portrayal of migrants as solely suffering. Based on firsthand accounts, it illustrates how people endure within heteronormative and oppressive structures through the types of tactics we suggest referring to as evasive, solidarity, belonging and claiming.

During the height of its power over everyday life, between 1968 and 1993, the Cuban Communist Party outlawed virtually all non-state labour and exchange. Since then, however, its continuity in power has increasingly depended on devolution: shifting responsibility for the provision of basic goods and services from failing state enterprises back to the self-employed. The latter now produce the majority of food and basic products; receive most of the national income from tourism, remittances and foreign investment; and generate most new jobs. Nevertheless, they subsist under a subaltern regime of fragile and conditional freedoms. The article adapts James Scott's consideration for the subaltern's ‘hidden transcripts’ and agencies to contemporary Cuba. It analyses the unavoidability of informal and illegal practices for daily subsistence; their naturalisation in society in contrast with their delegitimisation as opportunistic self-enrichment in party-controlled media; and how the self-employed resist such judgements in favour of more conciliatory civic visions.