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Conceptualizing 'everyday resistance' : a transdisciplinary approach
\"Everyday resistance is about the many ways people undermine power and domination through their routine and everyday actions. Unlike open rebellions or demonstrations, it is typically hidden, not politically articulated, and often ingenious. But because of its disguised nature, it is often poorly understood as a form of politics and its potential underestimated. Conceptualizing Everyday Resistance presents an analytical framework and theoretical tools to understand the entanglements of everyday power and resistance. These are applied to diverse empirical cases including queer relationships in the context of heteronormativity, Palestinian daily life under military occupation, workplace behaviors under office surveillance, and the tactics of fat acceptance bloggers facing the War against obesity. Johansson and Vinthagen argue that everyday resistance is best understood by accounting for different repertoires of tactics, relations between actors, and struggles around constructions of time and space. Through a critical dialogue with the work of James C. Scott, Michel de Certeau, and Asef Bayat, they aim to reconstruct the field of resistance studies, expanding what counts as resistance and building systematic analysis. Conceptualizing Everyday Resistance offers researchers and students from different theoretical and empirical backgrounds, an essential overview of the field and a creative framework that illuminates the potential of all people to transform society\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The practice of freedom
The last two decades have seen a re-birth of practices and principles that connect with the ‘soul’ of left-libertarianism, although they may not explicitly engage with the anarchist tradition. From practices of mapping and land-use planning to local protests and transnational social movements, this book explores a variety of case studies that trace the influences of, and affinities between, anarchist and geographic practice. The chapters explore the vast possibilities of inventive, exploratory libertarian practices from contemporary and historic contexts around the globe. They examine the ways in which various spatial practices have been compatible with left-libertarian principles, and explore the extent to which anarchists, neo-anarchists and libertarian autonomists have animated these waves of protest and forms of resistance. In an age that is desperately in need of critical new directions, this volume shows that a serious (re)turn toward anarchist thought and practice can challenge and inspire geographers to travel beyond their traditional frontiers of geographical praxis.
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Sonic Agency
In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book highlights sound's invisible, disruptive and affective qualities and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformation.
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Résistance - Widerstand
Vorwort Als unser ehemaliger Präsident Erich Moll vor über vier Jahren an uns herantrat und im Hinblick auf die österreichischen PhilosophielehrerInnen, die immer auch psychologisch gebildet sein müssen, das Thema \"Widerstand\" für eine Tagung in Südtirol vorschlug, die auch für deutsche und italienische Fachkollegen interessant sein sollte, wussten wir noch nicht, wie brisant und aktuell das Thema werden würde. Mit dem Arbeitstitel \"Sand im Getriebe\" ging es ihm um den positiven Wert widerständigen und kritischen Denkens, das in sich ruhende Persönlichkeiten braucht, die Wert- und Zielbewusstsein haben und sich nicht manipulieren lassen. Ursprünglich schwebte ihm eine Tagung vor, auf der hauptsächlich in Gruppen an didaktischen Konzepten gearbeitet werden würde. Umso trauriger ist es, dass wir in dieser Publikation nur drei Beiträge haben, die sich direkt mit der praktischen Umsetzung des Themas beschäftigen. Doch viele der Beiträge weisen in die oder berichten von einer Praxis: Die Vorgänge um den Maidan, unter den Regimes von Trump und Erdogan, obwohl man an die Kraft demokratischer Institutionen glauben konnte, der arabische Frühling, aber auch innereuropäisch anlässlich des Reformationsjubiläums, das mit Luthers Devise der Kritik an kirchlichen Autoritäten und der Aufforderung selber zu lesen und sich sein Urteil selber zu bilden, als Vorläufer aufklärerischen Denkens gesehen werden kann, wie unser ehemaliger Präsident Werner Busch ausführt. Die unglaublichen Vorgänge in der ehemaligen DDR, die – gewaltfrei – zum Fall der Mauer führten, der Protest nicht nur argentinischer Frauen gegen Feminizid und sexuelle Gewalt, aber auch das Erstarken des Rechtspopulismus und er entsprechenden Gegenbewegungen, die zu einer neuen Debattenkultur in der Politik geführt haben, all dies macht deutlich, wie wichtig eigenständiges Denken und Handeln geworden ist, auch wenn es Zivilcourage und die Neubelebung der antiken Tugend der Tapferkeit erfordert. Denn auch unsere modernen europäischen Gesellschaften entwickeln in Wirtschaft, digitalen Medien und in einer bürokratisierten Verwaltung viele System-zwänge, die nicht mehr die Menschen im Auge haben. Wir sind also dankbar, dass die Tagung im letzten Jahr durch die Hilfe unseres Mitglieds Prof. Ivo di Gennaro, dem Leiter der Akademie für deutsch-italienische Studien in Meran, ebendort stattfinden konnte und bedanken uns herzlich für das Engagement der Tagungsorganisatoren. Ihnen wünschen wir eine anregende Lektüre, aus der sie unschwer Ideen für mögliche Umsetzung in Praxis und u.a. auch für die Menschenrechtsthematik gewinnen können, wie wir hoffen.
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J.G. Ballard's politics : late capitalism, power, and the pataphysics of resistance
\"This book is the first sustained investigation of the political dimension in the work of J.G. Ballard. His oeuvre is read as a continuous meditation on late capitalism, at the heart of which lie questions of power and resistance. Drawing on a wide range of concepts from critical theory, the study argues that Ballard's texts respond to the exhaustion of received forms of political struggle by developing a new, pataphysical discourse of resistance\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Tracing Gandhi : Satyarthi to Satyagrahi
\"This book traces the journey of Mahatma Gandhi, from being a simple and truth-seeking human being, a satyarthi, to a committed, conscious and social human being, a satyagrahi. It specifically looks at this critical transformation during the time Gandhi was in South Africa. The central argument of the book is that Gandhi evolved from being a satyarthi to a satyagrahi in South Africa. Subsequently in India, he consolidated his orientation with an emphasis on praxis, by developing his ideas as instruments for social and individual struggles. Marked by a series of events, this period was an intense quest of self-realization and understanding, and shows his journey from being Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to being Mahatma Gandhi. The book discusses various elements of Gandhian thought and praxis -- morality, wisdom, non-violence, truth, social justice, dharma, trusteeship, education, sarvodaya, Hind Swaraj, swadeshi, and social service -- and interprets the relevance of Gandhi's thought in the modern world by highlighting its unique significance for social transformation and change. Lucid and accessible, the book will be useful to scholars and researchers of Gandhi studies, Indian political thought, modern Indian history, and political studies as also the general reader\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Reading Foucault with dislocated bones : eternally excavating an ontology of the self, towards an ontology of resistance
Explores the subversive potential of independent arts practice when embedded within a methodology of 'the self'. Draws on the work of Michel Foucault to outline and exemplify contemporary technologies of power and, using her own work of the past decade, look at why approaching the self as a field of observation and analysis is vital if we are to look toward modes of resistance. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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