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Journal of Resistance Studies

The first journal dedicated to developing the field of Resistance Studies.
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‘Everyday Constructive Resistance’: Exploring Bottom-Up Transformative Change
Monica Carrer
Stellan Vinthagen
This article delves into the interplay between everyday peace, everyday resistance, and constructive resistance, exploring their potential for transformative change. Drawing insights from case studies...
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Populism, ‘Empty Signifiers’ and Indigenous Resistance in Canada
Matthew Robertson
What are the implications of emergent populist forms of politics and the related use of ‘empty signifiers’ for Indigenous resistance movements in Canada? This article introduces the theories of populi...
Editorial
Celebrating Johan Galtung, with Dignity not Deification
Matt Meyer
Excerpt: As Secretary-General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), which Johan helped to found in 1964, I was pleased to lead a brief discussion at the Asia-Pacific Peace Research A...
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‘The Harvest is a Poem’: everyday practices as culture and resistance in the occupied Palestinian territory
Aurélie Broeckerhoff
Laura Sulin
Mahmoud Soliman
Marwan Darweish
The Palestinian communities in the South Hebron Hills (Masafer Yatta), occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), face double marginality: from the Israeli occupation and within Palestinian society. In the...
Classical book review
Pan-Africanism as Progressive Panacea: Retooling the Visions of Revolutionary “Positive Action,” Ujamaa, and Ubuntu
Matt Meyer
Excerpt: In the 75 years or so since Kwame Nkrumah wrote the influential essay ‘What I Mean by Positive Action,’ social movement theorists and historians of civil resistance alike have pointed to this...
Book review
Beyond Protest: Crafting Peace and Justice through Constructive Resistance
Tiina Seppälä
Review of the book by Majken Jul Sørensen, Stellan Vinthagen & Jørgen Johansen:Constructive Resistance: Resisting Injustice by Creating Solutions Rowman & Littlefield, 2023

The Journal of Resistance Studies is an international, interdisciplinary and peer- reviewed scientific journal that explores unarmed resistance. The focus is on critical understandings of resistance strategies, discourses, tactics, effects, causes, contexts and experiences. Our aim is to advance an understanding of how resistance might undermine repression, injustices and domination of any kind, as well as how resistance might nurture autonomous subjectivity, as e.g. constructive work, alternative communities, oppositional ways of thinking.

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JRS receives more submissions than we can possible publish. Most of them are good articles with high academic standards. But that is not enough for the editorial board to accept them for publication. As a journal for a relatively new academic field it is important for us to publish texts that contribute to developing this specific field with theoretical ideas, high quality empirical material, interesting analysis, and/or cases from a wide spectra of societal contexts.

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