Cultures Of Resistance

Author : Heidi Reynolds-Stenson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781978823754

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Cultures of Resistance by Heidi Reynolds-Stenson Pdf

Cultures of Resistance provides new insight on a long-standing question: whether government efforts to repress social movements produce a chilling effect on dissent, or backfire and spur greater mobilization. In recent decades, the U.S. government’s repressive capacity has expanded dramatically, as the legal, technological, and bureaucratic tools wielded by agents of the state have become increasingly powerful. Today, more than ever, it is critical to understand how repression impacts the freedom to dissent and collectively express political grievances. Through analysis of activists’ rich and often deeply moving experiences of repression and resistance, the book uncovers key group processes that shape how individuals understand, experience, and weigh these risks of participating in collective action. Qualitative and quantitative analyses demonstrate that, following experiences of state repression, the achievement or breakdown of these group processes, not the type or severity of repression experienced, best explain why some individuals persist while others disengage. In doing so, the book bridges prevailing theoretical divides in social movement research by illuminating how individual rationality is collectively constructed, mediated, and obscured by protest group culture.

Author : Paul J. Kosmin,Ian S. Moyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192678270

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Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East by Paul J. Kosmin,Ian S. Moyer Pdf

This collaborative volume examines revolts and resistance to the successor states, formed after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, as a transregional phenomenon. The editors have assembled an array of specialists in the study of the various regions and cultures of the Hellenistic world - Judea, Egypt, Babylonia, Central Asia, and Asia Minor - in an effort to trace comparisons and connections between episodes and modes of resistance. The volume seeks to unite the currently dominant social-scientific orientation to ancient resistance and revolt with perspectives, often coming from religious studies, that are more attentive to local cultural, religious, and moral frameworks. In re-assessing these frameworks, contributors move beyond Greek/non-Greek binaries to examine resistance as complex and entangled: acts and articulations of resistance are not purely nativistic or 'nationalist', but conditioned by local traditions of government, historical memories of prior periods, as well as emergent transregional Hellenistic political and cultural idioms. Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East is organized into three parts. The first part investigates the Great Theban Revolt and the Maccabean Revolt, the central cases for large, organized, and prolonged military uprisings against the Hellenistic kingdoms. The second part examines the full gamut of indigenous self-assertion and resistant action, including theologies of monarchic inadequacy, patterns of historical periodization and textual interpretation, and claims to sites of authority. The volume's final part turns to the more ambiguous assertions of local autonomy and identity that emerge in the frontier regions that slipped in and out of the grasp of the great Hellenistic powers.

Author : Melissa Butcher,Selvaraj Velayutham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 0415665981

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Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities by Melissa Butcher,Selvaraj Velayutham Pdf

This book seeks to document urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia's fastest growing cities.

Author : Karima Laachir,Saeed Talajooy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415893374

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Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures by Karima Laachir,Saeed Talajooy Pdf

This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of 'cultural resistance' to describe the way culture and cultural creations are used to resist or even change the dominant political, social, economic, and cultural discourses and structures either consciously or unconsciously. The contributors do not claim that these cultural products constitute organized resistance movements, but rather that they reflect instances of defiance that stem from their peculiar contexts. If culture can be used to consolidate and perpetuate power relations in societies, it can also be used as the site of resistance to oppression in its various forms: gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality, subverting existing dominant social and political hegemonies in the Middle East.

Author : Cedric J. Robinson
Publisher : Black Critique
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745340024

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Cedric J. Robinson by Cedric J. Robinson Pdf

A collection of essays by the influential founder of the black radical tradition

Author : Scott G. McNall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315295114

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Cultures of Defiance and Resistance by Scott G. McNall Pdf

How does one achieve a sense of freedom and meaning in a confusing, over-bureaucratized, and unequal world? Scott McNall offers the compelling case that we do so by taking a stand to protect our identities and values, and by taking further steps to create a sense of community with like-minded people. Modern social movements have sprung up on the right and left, to provide this sense of community, to seek explanations for why things are the way they are, and to discover what might be done in response. At this critical juncture in American society when divisions over race, class, gender, and government influence persist, movements allow their members to feel they are not trapped by their conditions. Cultures of Defiance and Resistance is an eye-opening account of the 'Antis' - those who stand in opposition to received wisdom and power, who resist the science of climate change, who reject vaccinations, who want to ban GMOs, and those who have resisted what they see as political or cultural oppression, such as Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and the Tea Party. McNall masterfully explores the goals, narratives, and rhetoric used by groups on the left, right, and center to understand and cope with 21st century America in a time of mass discord, uncertainty, and hostility. In doing so, he reframes social movements for a new era in one of the first cross-comparative books reflecting the entire political spectrum.

Author : J. Keri Cronin,Kirsty Robertson
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781554583119

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Imagining Resistance by J. Keri Cronin,Kirsty Robertson Pdf

Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection of eleven essays that focus on a range of institutions, artists, events, and actions. The history of radical practice is spread through the book in a series of short interventions, ranging from the Refus global to anarchist-inspired art, and from Aboriginal curatorial interventions to culture jamming. In each, the historical record is mined to rewrite and reverse Canadian art history—reworked here to illuminate the series of oppositional artistic endeavours that are often mentioned in discussions of Canadian art but rarely acknowledged as having an alternative history of their own. ?p Alongside, authors consider case studies as diverse as the anti-war work done by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Montreal and Toronto, recent exhibitions of activist art in Canadian institutions, radical films, performance art, protests against the Olympics, interventions into anti-immigrant sentiment in Montreal, and work by Iroquois photographer Jeff Thomas. Taken together, the writings in Imagining Resistance touch on the local, the global, the national, and post-national to imagine a very different landscape of cultural practice in Canada.

Author : George McKay
Publisher : Verso
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1859849083

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Senseless Acts of Beauty by George McKay Pdf

Welcome to the social and environmental devastation that is Britain in 1996. Welcome to interchangeable political parties and their chattering media jesters pulling together to make Johnny Rotten's dream come true: no future. But despite their best efforts, fear, cynicism and the National Lottery aren't the whole story. Protest hasn't disappeared during the last twenty years, and nor have solidarity and imagination. They have simply taken new forms; they have moved out and moved on. More and more people, young people especially, are making a virtue of necessity and living outside Britain's rotting institutional fabric. Travellers, tribes, ravers or squatters, direct-action protesters of every kind, DIYers. This book is the first attempt to write their history, to explore and celebrate their endlessly creative senselessness. George McKay looks back at the hippies of the sixties and punks of the seventies, and shows hot their legacies have been transformed into what he calls cultures of resistance. His journey through the undergrounds of the last two decades takes us from the Windsor Free Festival of 1972 to the Castlemorton Free Rave Megaparty exactly twenty years later, from the anarchopunk band Crass via Teepee Valley and Glastonbury to today's ever-intensifying anti-road protests, and to the widespread opposition to the Criminal Justice Act. Drawing on fanzines and free papers, record lyrics, interviews and diaries, Senseless Acts of Beauty gives a vivid, insider account of countercultures, networks and movements that until now have remained largely unrecorded. At the same time, George McKay analyses their effects, and gives his own answers to the questions they pose: what are their politics, their aspirations, their consequences? One thing is certain, he argues: if there is resistance anywhere in Britain today, then it is here, in the beat-up buses, beleaguered squats and tree-top barricades, that we should start to look for it.

Author : Ruxandra-Iuliana Canache
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031357992

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Marginal Spaces and Cultures of Dissent in Socialist Romania's Black Sea by Ruxandra-Iuliana Canache Pdf

This book analyzes two Romanian villages – 2 Mai and Vama Veche – as spaces of relative freedom during the last decades of socialist rule. This microhistorical study refutes simplistic views of the communist past which focus on political figures and events, and instead explores ordinary people and everyday life. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it considers a broad range of sources, including official Communist Party documents, secret police files, personal memoirs, oral history interviews, ethnographic films, songs, and artistic performances. This book intertwines three narrative threads: that of the visitors (mainly members of the Romanian intelligentsia, young people, and hippies); that of the local inhabitants; and that of 'authority' (local and central state agents actively engaged in surveillance and supervision). In doing so, it interrogates the spectrum of consent/dissent and resistance/collaboration hitherto neglected in scholarship.

Author : Jeff Hearn,Sasha Roseneil
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 033374716X

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Consuming Cultures by Jeff Hearn,Sasha Roseneil Pdf

Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organised through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct the person, the senses and the self, this book stands at the interface of the sociologies of culture and consumption. Arranged in two sections: Homes and Households, Places and Spaces; and Technologies of Consumption and Waste, the book includes chapters on youth consumption, cultures of the household, pornography, and waste and rubbish. This will be of interest to all those concerned with the study of culture and consumption whether from sociological, cultural or psychological perspectives.

Author : Don C. Ohadike
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1586841750

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Pan-African Culture of Resistance by Don C. Ohadike Pdf

Author : Martin Butler,Paul Mecheril,Lea Brenningmeyer
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839431498

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Resistance by Martin Butler,Paul Mecheril,Lea Brenningmeyer Pdf

All around the world and throughout history, resistance has played an important role - and it still does. Some strive to raise it to cause change. Some dare not to speak of it. Some try to smother it to keep a status quo. The contributions to this volume explore phenomena of resistance in a range of historical and contemporary environments. In so doing, they not only contribute to shaping a comparative view on subjects, representations, and contexts of resistance, but also open up a theoretical dialogue on terms and concepts of resistance both in and across different disciplines. With contributions by Micha Brumlik, Peter McLaren, and others.

Author : Nandita Chaudhary,Pernille Hviid,Giuseppina Marsico,Jakob Waag Villadsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789811035814

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Resistance in Everyday Life by Nandita Chaudhary,Pernille Hviid,Giuseppina Marsico,Jakob Waag Villadsen Pdf

This book is about resistance in everyday life, illustrated through empirical contexts from different parts of the world. Resistance is a widespread phenomenon in biological, social and psychological domains of human cultural development. Yet, it is not well articulated in the academic literature and, when it is, resistance is most often considered counter-productive. Simple evaluations of resistance as positive or negative are avoided in this volume; instead it is conceptualised as a vital process for human development and well-being. While resistance is usually treated as an extraordinary occurrence, the focus here is on everyday resistance as an intentional process where new meaning constructions emerge in thinking, feeling, acting or simply living with others. Resistance is thus conceived as a meaning-making activity that operates at the intersection of personal and collective systems. The contributors deal with strategies for handling dissent by individuals or groups, specifically dissent through resistance. Resistance can be a location of intense personal, interpersonal and cultural negotiation, and that is the primary reason for interest in this phenomenon. Ordinary life events contain innumerable instances of agency and resistance. This volume discusses their manifestations, and it is therefore of interest for academics and researchers of cultural psychology, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and human development.

Author : Brett C. Stockdill
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 1588261115

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Activism Against AIDS by Brett C. Stockdill Pdf

AIDS has claimed the lives of more than 400,000 people in the United States, becoming the focus of intense social activism. Brett Stockdill reveals that people living with HIV/AIDS are often multiply oppressed - women of color, for example - and explores how interlocking oppressions fragment activism and thus impede AIDS prevention and intervention. Demonstrating that a unified approach to issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality can most effectively combat the AIDS epidemic, he highlights the critical link between social analysis and public policy.

Author : Katherine Haldane Grenier,Amanda R. Mushal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030376475

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Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century by Katherine Haldane Grenier,Amanda R. Mushal Pdf

This collection provides a long-overdue examination of the nineteenth century as a crucible of new commemorative practices. Distinctive memory cultures emerged during this period which would fundamentally reshape public and private practices of remembrance in the modern world. The essays in this volume bring together scholars of History, Literature, Art History, and Musicology to explore uses of memory in nineteenth-century empire-building and constructions of national identity, cultures of sentiment and mourning practices, and discourses of race and power. Contributors approach the topic through case studies of Europe, the United States, and the British Empire. Their analyses of nineteenth-century innovations in commemoration at both the personal and the larger civic and political levels will appeal to students and scholars of memory and of the nineteenth-century world.