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Glocal Resistance and De-colonisation
/in Volume 6 Number 2 Ane Marie Ørbø Kirkegaard ArticleThis piece concerns civil society as conceptualised in Khatami’s book Islam, Dialogue and Civil Society, and in a wider sense the Dialogue among Civilisations and Cultures paradigm and the UN year of Dialogue among Civilisations (2001). In this particular text, Khatami discusses civil society in relation to de-colonising spaces, with particular references to West Asia, […]
Violence in Nonviolent Action: Power Relations in Joint Activism in Israel and Palestine
/in Volume 6 Number 2 Anne de Jong ArticleThis paper critically engages with nonviolent activism and resistance in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. By placing nonviolent direct actions directly in the context of its violent surrounding, it will be argued that structural and symbolic violence can be present in nonviolent actions and that unequal power relations can therewith be reproduced. Certain nonviolent […]
Hezbollah’s Dilemma: between Resistance and Sectarianism
/in Volume 6 Number 2 Abed Kanaaneh ArticleThe social mobilization (Hirak in Arabic) started in Lebanon on 17.10.2019 has been an unprecedented event in the modern history of Lebanon, for it has lasted for more than half a year, but most importantly, for being a cross-sectarian and cross-regional mobilization in state based primarily on sectarian structure and on a sectarian-based sharing of […]
To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence
/in Volume 6 Number 2 Isabel Bramsen ArticleWhat is conflictual interaction? How does it differ from domination? And how can domination and violence be disrupted by nonviolent direct action? In this article, I will theorize conflictual and violent interaction as interaction rituals and discuss how nonviolence can disrupt these rituals or change the dynamics hereof. Hence, I show how resistance studies and […]
The Mobilisation of Deviance as Counterrevolutionary Technology in Egypt
/in Volume 6 Number 2 Amira Abdelhamid ArticleIn a 2011 interview, then-Vice President Omar Suleiman declared that Egyptians are not ready for democracy, in response to mass anti-regime protests around Egypt. More peculiarly, protesters have been accused of trying to implement foreign (western) agendas, being perverts and homosexuals, and disrupting domestic cohesion. Discourses that attach deviance—ascribed as a western attribute—to open resistance […]
Making a Scene: Young Women’s Feminist Social Nonmovement in Cairo
/in Volume 6 Number 2 Nehal Elmeligy ArticleThis paper argues that some women in Cairo, Egypt are part of a feminist ‘social nonmovement’ that predates the 2011 revolution, where they ‘make scenes’, i.e. commit acts of everyday feminist resistance, by defying patriarchal control over their bodies and behavior in public space independently from one another, spurred by patriarchal oppression for most, and […]
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