Researching resistance and social change : a critical approach to theory and practice /

Baaz, Mikael, 1966-

Researching resistance and social change : a critical approach to theory and practice / Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja, and Stellan Vinthagen. - xii, 206 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: resistance studies as an academic pursuit -- Defining and analyzing "resistance": possible entrances to the study of subversive practices -- Sovereign power, disciplinary power and biopower: resisting what power with what resistance -- How resistance encourages resistance: theorizing the nexus between power, "organized resistance" and "everyday resistance" -- How resistance encourages power: exploring "irrational" resistance -- Entanglements of everyday resistance, organized resistance and violence: understanding affective resistance -- Fighting with and against the time: the "queering" of time as resistance -- Moral compulsions, everyday resistance and ethical research -- Some ethical aspects of the "strategy of legal rupture" as resistance -- Concluding remarks: researching resistance and social change.

9781786601179 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2017031455


Government, Resistance to.
Resistance (Philosophy)--Political aspects.
Social change.

JC328.3 / .B33 2018

323 BAA.R