Resistance has often been connected with anti-social attitudes, destructiveness, reactionary or revolutionary ideologies, unusual and sudden explosions of violence and emotional outbursts. This book goes beyond these conventions.
Exploring various key questions, ranging from concept definitions of affect and temporality, to complex entanglements of various social dimensions and ethical questions, this accessible guide provides a robust theoretical and methodological framework for researching of resistance and social change.
By drawing connections between resistance and politics, between performance and everyday strategies, and between the juridical and its counter-strategies, this book provides students with a transdisciplinary understanding of contemporary debates in this emerging field.
Autorentext
Mikael Baaz is Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies and a Senior Lecturer in International Law at the School of Business, Economics and Law, the University of Gothenburg.
Zusammenfassung
Provides a robust theoretical and methodological framework for researching of resistance and social
change.
Inhalt
1. Introduction: Resistance Studies as an Academic Pursuit / 2. Defining and Categorising "Resistance" / 3. Sovereign Power, Disciplinary power and Biopower: Resisting what Power with what Resistance / 4. How Resistance Encourages Resistance: Theorising the Nexus between Power, "Organised Resistance" and "Everyday Resistance" / 5. Exploring "Irrational" Resistance /6. Affects and Resistance Studies /. Fighting with and against the Time: The "Queering" of Time as Resistance /8. Moral Compulsions, Everyday Resistance and Ethical Research /9. The Ethical Aspects of the "Strategy of Legal Rupture" as Resistance / 10. Conclusion