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‘Everyday Constructive Resistance’: Exploring Bottom-Up Transformative Change
Monica Carrer
Stellan Vinthagen
Populism, ‘Empty Signifiers’ and Indigenous Resistance in Canada
Matthew Robertson
Celebrating Johan Galtung, with Dignity not Deification
Matt Meyer
‘The Harvest is a Poem’: everyday practices as culture and resistance in the occupied Palestinian territory
Aurélie Broeckerhoff
Laura Sulin
Mahmoud Soliman
Marwan Darweish
Pan-Africanism as Progressive Panacea: Retooling the Visions of Revolutionary “Positive Action,” Ujamaa, and Ubuntu
Matt Meyer
Beyond Protest: Crafting Peace and Justice through Constructive Resistance
Tiina Seppälä
Editorial
Craig S. Brown
Sabeth Kessler
Ilaria Tucci
Mobile commons: resisting through art, rethinking politics, resetting democracy
Javier Toscano
‘Look at the happy bear here!’ The use of artivism in Extinction Rebellion Sweden
Leif Dahlberg
Resistance with and against symbolic objects: material targets of resistance and symbolic recruitment in the American Revolution, the anti-Apartheid movement, and Just Stop Oil protests
Benjamin Abrams
Peter Gardner
Review of Peter Weiss: The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975–1981)
Leif Dahlberg
Review of 'Social Movements That Changed the World - 30 Stories of social change created by civil society'
Jungmin Choi
Review of the Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Majken Jul Sørensen
Review of 'Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring' by Asef Bayat
Shima Tadrisi
Classical Book Review by Sean Chabot: Hind Swaraj, 1909
Sean Chabot
Structural violence and repertoires of resistance in South Africa
Hilde Ibsen
Penelope Engel-Hills
Carolina Jernbro
Nonviolent Resistance in Bolivia’s Age of Neoliberalism
Reynaldo Tapia
Conscription Refusal as Political Resistance
Janne Flyghed
Editorial Volume 9, Number 1 - 2023
Jørgen Johansen
Craig S. Brown
Review of 'Civil Disobedience From Nepal to Norway: Traditions, Extensions, and Civility'
Julian Reid
G. Brandon Swann
Review of Juha Suoranta: Militant Freire
G. Brandon Swann
Obituary: April Carter (1937-2022)
Andrew Rigby
Changing the World through Political Education: On the Attempt to turn the World upside down with the Help of Political Education
Stefan Kalmring
Silke Veth
Artpeace: Validating Power, Mobilising Resistance, and Imagining Emancipation
Oliver P. Richmond
Beyond “Individual” or “Collective” Resistance: Assessment towards an Agenda for Future Research on Dissent
Mona Lilja
Stellan Vinthagen
Kristin Wiksell
Thinking communicatively and relationally about practices of resistances
Sophie Del Fa
Geneviève Boivin
Ann-Sophie Boily
Ève Leclair
The need to document, evaluate, and develop actions and strategies of resistance
Jørgen Johansen
Review of 'Radical Transformational Leadership: Strategic Action for Change Agents'
Crisol González García
Review of 'Whistleblowing for Change: Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice'
Brian Martin
Review of 'Sowing Seeds for the Future, Exploring the Power of Constructive Nonviolent Action'
Bob Overy
Review of 'Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance'
Matthew Hewett
Review of 'Common Preservation: In a time of mutual destruction'
Dalilah Shemia-Goeke
Editorial, Volume 8, Number 1 - 2022
Craig Brown
Overcoming the ‘Barrier of Fear’ in Order to Resist: the 2020 Protests against the Lukashenko Regime in Belarus
Craig S. Brown
Humanitarian Grass-roots work in Refugee Resettlement during the Trump Administration: A Study of Constructive Resistance
Barbara Franz
A Resistance History of India
Stellan Vinthagen
Expanding Resistance, Expanding Resistance Studies
Matt Meyer
Review of 'Breaking things at Work: the Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
Brian Martin
Review of 'Midnight in Cairo: the Female Stars of Egypt’s Roaring ’20s''
Craig Brown
Review of Marda Dunsky: 'Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience'
Andrew Rigby
Review of 'Ban the bomb! Michael Randle and Direct Action against Nuclear War'
Andrew Rigby
The Method of Political Resistance and the Concept of the ‘People’ in Tosaka Jun and Enrique Dussel
Dennis Stromback
Resistance and Milgram’s obedience studies in light of new research
Majken Jul Sørensen
Violence in Nonviolent Action: Power Relations in Joint Activism in Israel and Palestine
Anne de Jong
Rural Women in the Balkh and Herat Provinces of Afghanistan Simultaneous Resistance to, and Reproduction of, Patriarchal Power Structures
Sarah Louise Edgcumbe
The Journal of Resistance Studies’ Interview with David Hardiman: Subaltern Studies and Resistance
Stellan Vinthagen
Techniques of Resistance through Weaponization of the Body During Palestinian Hunger Strikes
Ashjan Ajour
Everyday Resistance of Trainee Therapists under Clinical Supervision
Wan-Juo Cheng
Review of Pleasure Activism: the Politics of Feeling Good
Artemis Duffy
Review of 'Consciousness Molded: or the Re-Identification of Palestinian Torture Jalbu’a Prison
Ashjan Ajour
Review of 'Violence: Humans in Dark Times'
Craig Brown
Review of 'This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook' and 'Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?'
Joseph Geraci
Review of 'Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines'
Joanna Riccitelli
A Textual Review of Transgender Resistance in Music Performance and Nerd Culture
Jordan M. Sanderson
Review of 'Black Men on the Blacktop: Basketball & the Politics of Race'
Risa F. Isard
Why Resistance Studies Should Pay Attention to Institutional Ethnography
Sarah Murru
Review of 'Many Grains of Sand: A Sourcebook of Ideas for Changing the World, Tried and Tested in Catalonia'
Stellan Vinthagen
A catechism becomes a manifesto
A catechism becomes a manifesto
What is the core of resistance studies? To challenge conventional perspectives on resistance?
Stellan Vinthagen
Beyond Hunger Strikes: The Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement and Everyday Resistance
Julie M. Norman
Reflections on researching Palestinian resistance
Andrew Rigby
The Journal of Resistance Studies' interview with James Scott
Stellan Vinthagen
Journal of Resistance Studies’ Interview with Elik Elhanan
Stellan Vinthagen
Review of 'The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism'
Craig Brown
Glocal Resistance and De-colonisation
Ane Marie Ørbø Kirkegaard
Review of 'Modernidades Alternativas' and 'Prefiguraciones De Lo Político'
Ryan A. Knight
Review of 'Discussing Arms: A Reading in the Complications of Palestinian Armed Experience'
Nadia Naser-Najjab
Review of Alistair Horne: 'A Savage War of Peace'
y Jonathan William Alexander Hills
Hezbollah’s Dilemma: between Resistance and Sectarianism
Abed Kanaaneh
To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence
Isabel Bramsen
The Mobilisation of Deviance as Counterrevolutionary Technology in Egypt
Amira Abdelhamid
Making a Scene: Young Women’s Feminist Social Nonmovement in Cairo
Nehal Elmeligy
Review of Tsering Woeser: 'Tibet on Fire'
Chris Agripino Kennedy
Review of Ather Zia: 'Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation & Women’s Activism in Kashmir'
Emily Parker
Review of Baconi, Tareq: 'Hamas Contained: the Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance'
Yara Akkeh
Review of 'Rhodes Must Fall: the Struggle to Decolonize the Racist Heart of an Empire'
Benjamin S. Case
Review of the game: 'Gandhi: the Decolonisation of British India, 1917-1947.'
Craig S. Brown
Peter Kropotkin: Mutual Aid - Book Review
Craig Brown
Levelling the Political Playing Field: How Nonviolent Resistance Influences Power Relations After Democratic Transition
Markus Bayer
Felix S. Bethke
Daniel Lambach
Gene Sharp: More Anarchist than Neoliberal
Craig Brown
Literal Tricks of the Trade. The Possibilities and Contradictions of Swedish Physicians’ Everyday Resistance in the Sickness Certification Process
Mani Shutzberg
The Journal of Resistance Studies initiates collaborations with academic associations and activist communities
Jørgen Johansen
Stellan Vinthagen
Gandhi the Organiser: How he shaped a nationwide rebellion: India 1915-1922 - Book review
Thomas Weber
Todd May: 'Nonviolent Resistance: A Philosophical Introduction' - Book Review
Anthony Huaqui
Nalanda Roy
Stephanie Mae Pedron
Pathania: 'The University as a Site of Resistance' - Book review
Arvind Kumar
Chandra Russo: 'Solidarity in Practice: Moral Protest and the US Security State'- Book review
Anthony Huaqui
Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game - Media Review
Craig S. Brown
Institutional resistance to transparency: the quest for Public Sector Information in Mexico
Guillén Torres
Recognizing Everyday Activism: Understanding Resistance to Facial Recognition
Nora Madison
Mathias Klang
Mobile Ambivalence at Standing Rock: surveillance, antagonism, and mobility at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests
Tyler DeAtley
RESIST: Examining Black Lives Matter in the Changing Landscape of Social Trust
Shauna A. Morimoto
Diana Cascante
L.A. Kaufman: 'How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance' - Book review
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Micah White: The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution - Book review
Matthew Johnson
Alf Gunvald Nilsen: 'Dispossession and Resistance in India' - Book review
Nalanda Roy
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance - Book review
Ryan Rybka
Ramnarayan S. Rawat: 'Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India' - Book review
Vaishali
Saul Alinsky: Rules for Radicals - Book Review
Simon Davies
The Rainbow Flag as Part of the ‘Apartheid Wall’ Assemblage: Materiality, (In)Visibility and Resistance
Anna Johansson
Do military leaders resist organizational challenges?
Aida Alvinius
Arita Holmberg
Eva Johansson
Can Resistance Scholars Hear the Subaltern Speak?
Sean Chabot
What we (do not) want to publish in the Journal of Resistance Studies
Jörgen Johansen
Stellan Vinthagen
Constituting Self-Violent Resistance: Materiality, Embodiment, and Speech Acts
Brandon Sims
Mining Conflicts in Peru Civil Resistance and Corporate Counterinsurgency
Michael S. Wilson Becerril
Travelling Artefacts: The Role of Recognition, Belongings and Acts of Resistance
Mona Lilja
Lena Martinsson
Resistance, Materiality and the Spectre of Cartesianism: A Contribution to the Critique of Feminist New Materialism
Evelina Johansson Wilén
Carl Wilén
When Doing Ethnography with Armed Movements: Participation, Rapport, Resistance – And Ethics
Minoo Koefoed
The Materiality of Resistance: Resistance of Cultural-Material Artefacts and Bodies
Anna Johansson
Mona Lilja
Lena Martinsson
Judith Butler: Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly - Book review
Lena Martinsson
Mona Lilja
Anna Johansson
Kevin Van Meter: Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible - Book review
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Lester R. Kurtz and Lee A. Smithey, ed. The paradox of repression and nonviolent movements - Book review
Majken Jul Sørensen
Arlie Russell Hochschild: Strangers in Their Own Land - Book review
Matthew W. Johnson
Dawson Barrett: The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America - Book review
Matthew W. Johnson
Riots as Civil Resistance Rethinking the Dynamics of ‘Nonviolent’ Struggle
Benjamin S. Case
The internationalisation of nonviolent resistance the case of the BDS campaign
Marwan Darweish
Andrew Rigby
Linguistic Resistance: Establishing, Maintaining and Resisting Truths
Eva Lilja
Mona Lilja
Riots during the 2010/11 Tunisian Revolution: A Response to Case’s Article in JRS Vol.4 Number 1
Craig S. Brown
A message from your new book review editor
Issue-7-Book-Reviews.pdf
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Trough Radical Resistance - Book review
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Shannon Speed: Rights in rebellion. Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas - Book review
Vanessa Miranda- Juarez
Traci Brynne Voyles: Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country - Book review
Ryan Rybka
The Tea Party Warrior’s Field Manual - Book review
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Stellan Vinthagen: A Theory of Nonviolent Action – How Civil Resistance Works - Book review
Markus Bayer
Dustin Ells Howes: Freedom Without Violence: Resisting the Western Political Tradition - Book review
Brian Martin
M.S. Wallace: Security Without Weapons: Rethinking Violence, Nonviolent Action, and Civilian Protection - Book review
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Sarah Van Gelder: The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000- Mile Journey through a New America
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
S. M. Farid Mirbagheri: War and Peace in Islam; a critique of Islamic/ist Political discourses - Book review
Asma Khalif
Mark Hertsgaard: Bravehearts: Whistle-blowing in the Age of Snowden - Book review
Brian Martin
Clover, Joshua: Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings - Book review
Stellan Vinthagen
James C. Scott: Decoding Subaltern Politics: Ideology, disguise, and resistance in agrarian politics - Book review
Stellan Vinthagen
Butler, Judith, Zeynep Gambetti, and Leticia Sabsay (eds.) Vulnerability in Resistance - Book review
Stellan Vinthagen
Knapp, Michael, Anja Flach and Ercan Ayboga. Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan - Book review
Stellan Vinthagen
Vergara-Camus: Land and Freedom: The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism - Book review
Stellan Vinthagen
Social Movements and Resistance Studies in Neoliberal Times
Massimiliana Urbano
Activist Ethics: the Need for a Nuanced Approach to Resistance Studies Field Research
Joanna Allan
Doing Fieldwork at ‘Home’: Ethical and Emotional Considerations on the Academic-Activist Relationship
Christina Hansen
Resistance or Complicity, Songs of Changkhup: An Ethnographic Approach to Exploring Sipsongpanna Tai Lüe Oral Media in Contemporary China
Kefan Yang
An Exit from the Garbage City: Resistance and “Chikonko” in Zambian Waste Management
Clive Mutame Siachiyako
Erica von Essen
Elin Ångman
The development and future of Resistance Studies
Jørgen Johansen
Resistant Materialities and Power Tools: Dynamics of Power and Resistance in Everyday Consumerism
Otto Von Busch
Queer Hate and Dirt Rhetoric: An Ambivalent Resistance Strategy
Cathrin Wasshede
Glorifications and Simplifications in Case Studies of Danish WWII Nonviolent Resistance
Majken Jul Sørensen
Resistance Studies as an Academic Pursuit
Mikael Baaz
Mona Lilja
Stellan Vinthagen
Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh
Shane J. Barter
Investigating nonviolent action by experimental testing