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University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
June 18-21, 2026 

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Nonviolent resistance failure: internal reasons why campaigns struggle to win (and what we can learn from it)
Lea Bonasera
Article
From Ordinary to Revolutionary: Dynamics of Mobilization in the Egyptian Revolution
Mohamed El Meadawy
Article
Mashrou’ Leila’s Musical Affective Politics: Queer Resistance in the Egyptian Social and Political Uprising
Izat ElAmoor
Editorial
Where to, resistance studies?
Brian Martin
Editorial
Celebrating Johan Galtung, with Dignity not Deification
Matt Meyer
Article
‘Everyday Constructive Resistance’: Exploring Bottom-Up Transformative Change
Monica Carrer
Stellan Vinthagen
Article
Populism, ‘Empty Signifiers’ and Indigenous Resistance in Canada
Matthew Robertson
Article
‘The Harvest is a Poem’: everyday practices as culture and resistance in the occupied Palestinian territory
Aurélie Broeckerhoff
Laura Sulin
Mahmoud Soliman
Marwan Darweish
Article
Mobile commons: resisting through art, rethinking politics, resetting democracy
Javier Toscano
Article
‘Look at the happy bear here!’ The use of artivism in Extinction Rebellion Sweden
Leif Dahlberg
Article
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
Article
Structural violence and repertoires of resistance in South Africa
Hilde Ibsen
Penelope Engel-Hills
Carolina Jernbro
Article
Nonviolent Resistance in Bolivia’s Age of Neoliberalism
Reynaldo Tapia
Article
Conscription Refusal as Political Resistance
Janne Flyghed
Editorial
Editorial
Craig S. Brown
Sabeth Kessler
Ilaria Tucci
Editorial
Editorial Volume 9, Number 1 - 2023
Jørgen Johansen
Craig S. Brown
Article
Humanitarian Grass-roots work in Refugee Resettlement during the Trump Administration: A Study of Constructive Resistance
Barbara Franz
Article
A Resistance History of India
Stellan Vinthagen
Article
Artpeace: Validating Power, Mobilising Resistance, and Imagining Emancipation
Oliver P. Richmond
Article
Beyond “Individual” or “Collective” Resistance: Assessment towards an Agenda for Future Research on Dissent
Mona Lilja
Stellan Vinthagen
Kristin Wiksell
Editorial
The need to document, evaluate, and develop actions and strategies of resistance
Jørgen Johansen
Article
Thinking communicatively and relationally about practices of resistances
Sophie Del Fa
Geneviève Boivin
Ann-Sophie Boily
Ève Leclair
Editorial
Editorial, Volume 8, Number 1 - 2022
Craig Brown
Article
Overcoming the ‘Barrier of Fear’ in Order to Resist: the 2020 Protests against the Lukashenko Regime in Belarus
Craig S. Brown
Editorial
What is the core of resistance studies? To challenge conventional perspectives on resistance?
Stellan Vinthagen
Article
The Method of Political Resistance and the Concept of the ‘People’ in Tosaka Jun and Enrique Dussel
Dennis Stromback
Article
Violence in Nonviolent Action: Power Relations in Joint Activism in Israel and Palestine
Anne de Jong
Article
Rural Women in the Balkh and Herat Provinces of Afghanistan Simultaneous Resistance to, and Reproduction of, Patriarchal Power Structures
Sarah Louise Edgcumbe
Article
Techniques of Resistance through Weaponization of the Body During Palestinian Hunger Strikes
Ashjan Ajour
Article
Everyday Resistance of Trainee Therapists under Clinical Supervision
Wan-Juo Cheng
Editorial
Expanding Resistance, Expanding Resistance Studies
Matt Meyer
Article
The Mobilisation of Deviance as Counterrevolutionary Technology in Egypt
Amira Abdelhamid
Editorial
The Journal of Resistance Studies initiates collaborations with academic associations and activist communities
Jørgen Johansen
Stellan Vinthagen
Article
Making a Scene: Young Women’s Feminist Social Nonmovement in Cairo
Nehal Elmeligy
Article
Levelling the Political Playing Field: How Nonviolent Resistance Influences Power Relations After Democratic Transition
Markus Bayer
Felix S. Bethke
Daniel Lambach
Article
Gene Sharp: More Anarchist than Neoliberal
Craig Brown
Article
Beyond Hunger Strikes: The Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement and Everyday Resistance
Julie M. Norman
Article
Literal Tricks of the Trade. The Possibilities and Contradictions of Swedish Physicians’ Everyday Resistance in the Sickness Certification Process
Mani Shutzberg
Article
Glocal Resistance and De-colonisation
Ane Marie Ørbø Kirkegaard
Article
Hezbollah’s Dilemma: between Resistance and Sectarianism
Abed Kanaaneh
Article
To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence
Isabel Bramsen
Article
Do military leaders resist organizational challenges?
Aida Alvinius
Arita Holmberg
Eva Johansson
Editorial
What we (do not) want to publish in the Journal of Resistance Studies
Jörgen Johansen
Stellan Vinthagen
Article
Institutional resistance to transparency: the quest for Public Sector Information in Mexico
Guillén Torres
Article
Recognizing Everyday Activism: Understanding Resistance to Facial Recognition
Nora Madison
Mathias Klang
Article
Mobile Ambivalence at Standing Rock: surveillance, antagonism, and mobility at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests
Tyler DeAtley
Article
RESIST: Examining Black Lives Matter in the Changing Landscape of Social Trust
Shauna A. Morimoto
Diana Cascante
Article
The Rainbow Flag as Part of the ‘Apartheid Wall’ Assemblage: Materiality, (In)Visibility and Resistance
Anna Johansson
Article
Mining Conflicts in Peru Civil Resistance and Corporate Counterinsurgency
Michael S. Wilson Becerril
Article
Constituting Self-Violent Resistance: Materiality, Embodiment, and Speech Acts
Brandon Sims
Article
Travelling Artefacts: The Role of Recognition, Belongings and Acts of Resistance
Mona Lilja
Lena Martinsson
Editorial
The Materiality of Resistance: Resistance of Cultural-Material Artefacts and Bodies
Anna Johansson
Mona Lilja
Lena Martinsson
Article
Resistance, Materiality and the Spectre of Cartesianism: A Contribution to the Critique of Feminist New Materialism
Evelina Johansson Wilén
Carl Wilén
Article
Riots as Civil Resistance Rethinking the Dynamics of ‘Nonviolent’ Struggle
Benjamin S. Case
Article
The internationalisation of nonviolent resistance the case of the BDS campaign
Marwan Darweish
Andrew Rigby
Article
Linguistic Resistance: Establishing, Maintaining and Resisting Truths
Eva Lilja
Mona Lilja
Article
An Exit from the Garbage City: Resistance and “Chikonko” in Zambian Waste Management
Clive Mutame Siachiyako
Erica von Essen
Elin Ångman
Article
Resistant Materialities and Power Tools: Dynamics of Power and Resistance in Everyday Consumerism
Otto Von Busch
Article
Queer Hate and Dirt Rhetoric: An Ambivalent Resistance Strategy
Cathrin Wasshede
Article
Glorifications and Simplifications in Case Studies of Danish WWII Nonviolent Resistance
Majken Jul Sørensen
Editorial
The development and future of Resistance Studies
Jørgen Johansen
Article
Social Movements and Resistance Studies in Neoliberal Times
Massimiliana Urbano
Article
Resistance Studies as an Academic Pursuit
Mikael Baaz
Mona Lilja
Stellan Vinthagen
Editorial
Researching Resistance: Methodological Challenges, Ethical Concerns and the Future of Resistance Studies
Anton Törnberg
Article
Activist Ethics: the Need for a Nuanced Approach to Resistance Studies Field Research
Joanna Allan
Article
Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh
Shane J. Barter
Article
Investigating nonviolent action by experimental testing
Brian Martin
Majken Jul Sørensen
Article
Accessing the Backstage: Ethnographic Research Methods in Resistance Studies
Minoo Koefoed
Article
Resistance or Complicity, Songs of Changkhup: An Ethnographic Approach to Exploring Sipsongpanna Tai Lüe Oral Media in Contemporary China
Kefan Yang
Article
Decolonizing Australia’s Body Politics: Contesting the Coloniality of Violence of Child Removal
Sara C. Motta
Article
Ayotzinapa and Resistance Breaking history with narrative
Francisco Javier Gómez Carpinteiro
Article
Constructive Resistance: Conceptualising and Mapping the Terrain
Majken Jul Sørensen
Article
Telling Stories of Resistance and Ruination: Women Seeking Asylum
Kate Smith
Article
Little feminism, but lots of feminists: Feminist resistance and the Scottish independence movement
Jenny Morrison
Article
Feminizing Resistance, Decolonizing Solidarity: Contesting Neoliberal Development in the Global South
Tiina Seppälä
Editorial
Feminized Resistances
Sara C. Motta
Tiina Seppälä
Article
Sexual and Spiritual R-Evolution through Animism: The Feminine Semiotics of Puppetry
Aja Marneweck
Editorial
We continue to develop resistance studies
Stellan Vinthagen
Article
Unemployed Workers’ Movements and the Territory of Social Reproduction
Liz Mason-Deese
Article
Queering Resistance, Queering Research: In Search of a Queer Decolonial Feminist Understanding of Adivasi Indigeneity
Padini Nirmal
Article
Play, Politics, & the Practice of Resistance
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
Article
Securitization of civil resistance: Thailand’s military junta and beyond
Janjira Sombatpoonsiri
Editorial
An invitation to Develop Resistance Studies
Stellan Vinthagen
Article
Recoupling Groups Who Resist Dimensions of Difference, Opposition and Affirmation
Tristan Partridge
Article
Repertoires of Resistance: How Agency Fuelled Rhetoric, Resistance and Rebellion During Mao’s Housing Revolution
Angela Maye-Banbury
Editorial
Some notes on the Journal of Resistance Studies and its exploration of “resistance”
Stellan Vinthagen
Article
Citizen Science as Resistance: Crossing the Boundary Between Reference and Representation
Christopher Kullenberg
Article
Building Resilience to Repression in Nonviolent Resistance Struggles
Jason MacLeod

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