00000nas a2200000 i 4500 jrs-serial-jrs resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910c20159999sw fr p 0 a0eng d 2003-3265 resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Journal of Resistance Studies Journal of Resistance Studies Semiannual Began with volume 1, issue 1 (2015). texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Print version:2001-9947 Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063 https://resistance-journal.org/ 00000nas a2200000 i 4500 jrs-serial-rsm resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910d20082013sw xr p 0 a0eng d 1654-7063 resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Resistance Studies Magazine Resistance Studies Magazine Irregular Began in 2008. Ceased with the 2013 issue. texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265 https://resistance-journal.org/ 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15615 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2026 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.018doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vandeberg, Sofie Book Review: Political disagreement, violence and nonviolence: An analysis of political ideologies and their distinctions between kinds of violence by Gregory McCreery /Sofie Vandeberg. Journal of Resistance Studies2026 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 12, no. 1, (2026), p. 212-217 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/book-review-political-disagreement-violence-and-nonviolence-an-analysis-of-political-ideologies-and-their-distinctions-between-kinds-of-violence-by-gregory-mccreery/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15614 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2026 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.017doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Scheffler, Kalani V. Book Review: The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism by Kevin B. Anderson /Kalani V. Scheffler. Journal of Resistance Studies2026 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 12, no. 1, (2026), p. 204-211 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/book-review-the-late-marxs-revolutionary-roads-colonialism-gender-and-indigenous-communism-by-kevin-b-anderson/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15613 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2026 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.016doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sadje, Hadje Cresencio Book Review: Divest: An Essay on Political Masochism by Steven Swarbrick /Hadje Cresencio Sadje. Journal of Resistance Studies2026 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 12, no. 1, (2026), p. 194-203 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/book-review-divest-an-essay-on-political-masochism-by-steven-swarbrick/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15612 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2026 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.015doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Jans, Chloë Film Review: Chocolate Babies by Stephen Winter /Chloë Jans. Journal of Resistance Studies2026 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 12, no. 1, (2026), p. 185-193 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/film-review-chocolate-babies-by-stephen-winter/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15611 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2026 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.014doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sporer, Ryan Alan Circumvention as Resistance: Revisiting Four Theoretical Traditions to Rethink the Politics of Exit /Ryan Alan Sporer. Journal of Resistance Studies2026 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This article advances resistance studies by theorizing circumvention as a politically significant yet undertheorized mode of resistance. It conceptualizes circumvention as a dual process of individual and collective self-extrication from coercive socio-material assemblages and the terraformation of alternative infrastructures that sustain structural distance. Anthropological and historical literatures indicates that political fission is normative, durable, and recurrent feature of human social organizations. From plebeian secessions, peasant flight, and maroon societies to back-to-the-land movements, 1960s communes, eco-villages, draft resistance, and off-grid housing; circumvention reconfigures power not through direct seizure, but rather by their subtraction from dominant logics, infrastructures, and compulsory relations. Such practices are marginalized in social theory, which often reflect state-centrism and progress narratives that cast exit as apolitical, regressive, or irrelevant to resistance struggles. In response, the article engages four traditions (functionalism, exilic liberalism, anarchism, and post-Marxism) to recover and reframe circumvention’s political significance. The article further challenges safety valve theories that portray departure as pathological, selfish, or system-preserving. Circumvention is reinterpreted as historically persistent and pragmatically indispensable. In a time of infrastructural saturation and systemic exhaustion, the concept of circumvention offers resistance studies a lens for analyzing practices of refusal, autonomy, and alternative world-making. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 12, no. 1, (2026), p. 145-184 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/circumvention-as-resistance-revisiting-four-theoretical-traditions-to-rethink-the-politics-of-exit/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15610 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2026 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.013doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Clay-Robison, Shelly Linking the Individual and the Movement: Artist-Activism in Indonesian Resistance /Shelly Clay-Robison. Journal of Resistance Studies2026 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This research examines the ways that Indonesian artists and activists resist authoritarianism through organized and everyday acts of resistance. Using a multidisciplinary approach, it explores how artists challenge dominant narratives surrounding the 1965 killings, patriarchal influences, and corporate-driven environmental degradation. While collective and individual resistance efforts are often studied separately, this research seeks to highlight the connections between them through artistic communities of practice. By integrating ideas from resistance studies, the arts, and peace and conflict studies, it provides insights for scholars and activists seeking to better understand the dynamics of resistance as it works for social change. The ethnographic nature of this study focuses on the repertoires of contention that artists employ, including humor, subversion, storytelling, support for women, and intentional human connection. This research shows that everyday forms of resistance are critical to the emergence and endurance of collective action over time in Indonesia. The practices used at individual and collective levels build trust and shared meaning-making, creating a flexible infrastructure within the Indonesian arts community that develops the support and energy necessary to continue resisting authoritarian and harmful socio-political systems. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 12, no. 1, (2026), p. 110-144 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/linking-the-individual-and-the-movement-artist-activism-in-indonesian-resistance/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15609 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2026 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.012doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Rafiee Rad, Siavash The Poetics of Resistance: A Study of Forugh Farrokhzad’s Defiant Expression /Siavash Rafiee Rad. Journal of Resistance Studies2026 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance has long been a fundamental aspect of human social existence, entwined with power dynamics and struggles for domination. While the concept of resistance is a relatively new focus in International Relations theories, its roots stretch deep into history, evolving and resurfacing in response to political and societal oppression. This article explores resistance as both an ideological stance and tactical repudiation of domination, focusing on its expression in Persian literature, particularly the works of renowned poet Forugh Farrokhzād. By examining two of her lesser-studied poems, Ey Marz-e Porgohar (‘O Bejeweled Land!’) and Aftāb Mishavad (‘The Sun Shall Shine’), through a non-structural gender lens, this study highlights how Farrokhzād's poetry challenges not only patriarchal norms but also broader political and societal power structures. The article situates Farrokhzād within the socio-political context of mid-20th-century Iran, where her defiance against gendered oppression and political repression marked her as a pioneering figure in literary resistance. It also explores the broader tradition of resistance in Persian literature, showing how poetry has historically functioned as a form of expression and agent of social change. Ultimately, the article underscores the significance of literary works like Farrokhzād’s in shaping political discourse, fostering dissent, and advancing struggles for autonomy. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 12, no. 1, (2026), p. 70-109 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-poetics-of-resistance-a-study-of-forugh-farrokhzads-defiant-expression/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15608 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2026 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.011doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Gholami, Reyhane Beyond State-Institution-Centric Narratives: Iranian Student Resistance, 1982–1989 /Reyhane Gholami. Journal of Resistance Studies2026 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This paper challenges the prevailing historiography that depicts the 1982-1989 period in Iran as a vacuum of student agency due to severe state repression following the Islamic Cultural Revolution. By shifting away from state-institution-centric narratives, this study adopts a bottom-up perspective to explore the persistence of student resistance under theocratic authoritarianism. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with former students, the research reveals that resistance did not vanish but underwent a tactical metamorphosis. The findings identify a transition from atomized, individual acts of non-compliance to more coordinated, albeit non-overt, collective practices, which served as a critical period of incubation for future student activism in Iran. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 12, no. 1, (2026), p. 42-69 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/beyond-state-institution-centric-narratives-iranian-student-resistance-1982-1989/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15607 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2026 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.010doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Brown, Louise Sport’s contribution to everyday non-violent resistance in a situation of ethnic cleansing and occupation: how the experience of being a member of a cycling group contributes to Palestinian sumud /Louise Brown. Journal of Resistance Studies2026 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier While participation by Palestinian athletes in international sports events is severely restricted by Israeli occupation policies, Palestinian participation in community led grassroots sports initiatives such as cycling, running and climbing has increased significantly in the Palestinian Occupied Territory of the West Bank since 2015. This study asks how the collective practice of a Palestinian cycling group embodies everyday non-violent resistance in a situation of ongoing occupation. More specifically, it looks at how the experience of being a member of the cycling group enhances the opportunities to express identity and affirm human rights, thus contesting Israeli authorities’ dehumanising strategies, human rights abuses and ethnic cleansing policies. A series of four in-depth interviews with members of the group explores how their experience in the group contributed to Palestinian sumud. The contextually appropriate concept of Palestinian sumud combines the Western concepts of resilience, resistance and steadfastness. An analysis of the interviews and academic literature on resistance and resilience suggests that community led grassroots sports initiatives offer opportunities to enhance inner strength and express acts of everyday non-violent resistance thus contributing to redressing power dynamics and moving towards sustainable peacebuilding. The study contributes to an understanding of sport’s role as everyday non-violent resistance, in community-led peacebuilding initiatives during situations of military occupation. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 12, no. 1, (2026), p. 11-41 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/sports-contribution-to-everyday-non-violent-resistance-in-a-situation-of-ethnic-cleansing-and-occupation-how-the-experience-of-being-a-member-of-a-cycling-group-contributes-to-palestinian-s/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15606 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2026 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.009doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Carrer, Monica How does Resistance Studies Resist? Reflections from organising the first Resistance Studies Conference /Monica Carrer. Journal of Resistance Studies2026 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 12, no. 1, (2026), p. 1-10 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/how-does-resistance-studies-resist-reflections-from-organising-the-first-resistance-studies-conference/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15588 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2010 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2010.1.4doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Shantz, Jeffrey Understanding Anarchy: Contemporary Anarchism and Social Movement Theory /Jeffrey Shantz. Resistance Studies Magazine2010 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2010), p. 1-15 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/understanding-anarchy-contemporary-anarchism-and-social-movement-theory/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15587 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2010 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2010.1.3doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Ruggero, E. Colin Building over Planning: Radical Counter-Hegemony and the Dinosaurs of the Old Left /E. Colin Ruggero. Resistance Studies Magazine2010 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2010), p. 1-18 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/building-over-planning-radical-counter-hegemony-and-the-dinosaurs-of-the-old-left/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15586 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2010 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2010.1.2doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Statman, James M. Burning for Bafana: On the Symbolic Micro-politics of Sacrifice and Rebellion /James M. Statman. Resistance Studies Magazine2010 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2010), p. 1-8 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/burning-for-bafana-on-the-symbolic-micro-politics-of-sacrifice-and-rebellion/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15585 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2010 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2010.1.1doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Mowbray, Mike Blogging the Greek Riots: Between Aftermath and Ongoing Engagement /Mike Mowbray. Resistance Studies Magazine2010 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2010), p. 1-12 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/blogging-the-greek-riots-between-aftermath-and-ongoing-engagement/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15584 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2009 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2009.1.2doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Williams, J. Patrick The Multidimensionality of Resistance in Youth-Subcultural Studies /J. Patrick Williams. Resistance Studies Magazine2009 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2009), p. 1-14 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-multidimensionality-of-resistance-in-youth-subcultural-studies/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15583 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2009 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2009.1.1doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Lilja, Mona Theorizing Resistance: Mapping, Concretism and Universalism. The New Feminist Concepts of our Time? /Mona Lilja. Resistance Studies Magazine2009 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2009), p. 1-17 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/theorizing-resistance-mapping-concretism-and-universalism-the-new-feminist-concepts-of-our-time/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15582 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.3.5doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Bua, Adrian Towards a Pluralist Socialism /Adrian Bua. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 3, (2008), p. 1-15 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/towards-a-pluralist-socialism/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15581 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.3.4doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Riegler, Thomas ‘The Battle of Algiers’ – Blueprint for Revolution/Counterrevolution? /Thomas Riegler. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 3, (2008), p. 1-11 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-battle-of-algiers-blueprint-for-revolution-counterrevolution/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15580 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.3.3doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Kaulingfreks, Femke ‘Fuck Normalization’ – Young Urban ‘Troublemakers’ as Meaningful Political Actors /Femke Kaulingfreks. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 3, (2008), p. 1-17 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/fuck-normalization-young-urban-troublemakers-as-meaningful-political-actors/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15579 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.3.2doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Gunderson, Shane Social Movement, Spectacle, and Momentum /Shane Gunderson. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 3, (2008), p. 1-12 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/social-movement-spectacle-and-momentum/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15578 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.3.1doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Evans, Carol Jo Resistance and Cooperation in a North American Appalachian Community /Carol Jo Evans. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 3, (2008), p. 1-17 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resistance-and-cooperation-in-a-north-american-appalachian-community/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15577 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.2.6doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Johansson, Johan Review: ‘Conceptualizing Resistance’ by Jocelyn A. Hollander and Rachel L. Einwohner /Johan Johansson. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 2, (2008), p. 1-5 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-conceptualizing-resistance-by-jocelyn-a-hollander-and-rachel-l-einwohner/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15576 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.2.5doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Whyte, Christine H. School’s Out: Strategies of Resistance in Colonial Sierra Leone /Christine H. Whyte. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 2, (2008), p. 1-11 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/schools-out-strategies-of-resistance-in-colonial-sierra-leone/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15575 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.2.4doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Ojakorotu, Victor Whetho, Ayo Multinational Corporations and Human Rights Abuses: A Case Study of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People and Ijaw Youth Council of Nigeria /Victor Ojakorotu and Ayo Whetho. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 2, (2008), p. 1-27 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/multinational-corporations-and-human-rights-abuses-a-case-study-of-the-movement-for-the-survival-of-ogoni-people-and-ijaw-youth-council-of-nigeria/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15574 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.2.3doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Hiller, Patrick T. Changing the System from the Outside – An Evaluative Analysis of Social Movements Opposing the 2007 G8 Summit /Patrick T. Hiller. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 2, (2008), p. 1-16 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/changing-the-system-from-the-outside-an-evaluative-analysis-of-social-movements-opposing-the-2007-g8-summit/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15573 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.2.2doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Erim, Duygun Becoming Power Through Dance /Duygun Erim. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 2, (2008), p. 1-15 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/becoming-power-through-dance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15572 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.2.1doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Palmgren, Pei Claims to Globalization: Thailand’s Assembly of the Poor and the Multilevel Resistance to Capitalist Development /Pei Palmgren. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 2, (2008), p. 1-18 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/claims-to-globalization-thailands-assembly-of-the-poor-and-the-multilevel-resistance-to-capitalist-development/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15571 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.1.4doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Mishra, Patit Paban The Hillsmen of Gangpur: A Discourse on Resistance Movements /Patit Paban Mishra. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2008), p. 1-4 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-hillsmen-of-gangpur-a-discourse-on-resistance-movements/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15570 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.1.3doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Shantz, Jeffrey Anarchist Futures in the Present /Jeffrey Shantz. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2008), p. 1-11 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/anarchist-futures-in-the-present/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15569 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.1.2doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Gough, Tim Resistance: Under What Grace /Tim Gough. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2008), p. 1-7 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resistance-under-what-grace/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15568 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2008 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2008.1.1doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Palmås, Karl From Jamming the Motor to Hacking the Computer: The Case of Adbusters /Karl Palmås. Resistance Studies Magazine2008 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2008), p. 1-9 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/from-jamming-the-motor-to-hacking-the-computer-the-case-of-adbusters/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15536 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2013 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2013.1.3doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Törnberg, Anton Resistance Matter(s): Resistance Studies and the Material Turn /Anton Törnberg. Resistance Studies Magazine2013 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier After a period largely dominated by a bias on language, discourses and the social world, a material turn is slowly emerging in social theory, emphasizing the central role of materiality and material power. However, welcoming this new theoretical embrace of the social and the material, I argue that there exists a theoretical gap in the materiality literature when it comes to the concept of resistance. Few, if any, scholars have elaborated on what role material agency plays in practices of resistance. This also goes the other way around; resistance studies has been heavily influenced by the linguistic turn and is largely characterized by a preoccupation on immaterial cultural processes, generally neglecting how the material can act back and shape both social relations and practices of resistance. This article elaborates on how these fields can benefit from each other by sharing relevant insights and discusses what an increased focus on the material has to offer resistance studies. Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2013), p. 1-15 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resistance-matters-resistance-studies-and-the-material-turn/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15535 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2013 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2013.1.2doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan Johansson, Anna “Everyday Resistance”: Exploration of a Concept and its Theories /Stellan Vinthagen and Anna Johansson. Resistance Studies Magazine2013 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2013), p. 1-46 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/everyday-resistance-exploration-of-a-concept-and-its-theories/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15534 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2013 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2013.1.1doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Lilja, Mona The Gaps of the “Linguistic Turn”: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Nexus of Representations, the Surplus and the Material /Mona Lilja. Resistance Studies Magazine2013 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier The move to the linguistic has provided significant advantages for feminist scholars, in showing how differences (for example, in regard to sex, class and race) are indebted to discursive productions rather than to material “facts”. However, there are some key issues or areas in which the linguistic turn needs to be further theorized. In order to problematize the linguistic turn this position paper opens up new fields of research. The aim is to display three gaps – areas to be developed – within the feminist linguistic stands: 1) the concept of material; 2) the concept of surplus; and 3) the existence of representations and their place, meaning and potential within current feminist studies. Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2013), p. 1-23 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-gaps-of-the-linguistic-turn-some-preliminary-remarks-on-the-nexus-of-representations-the-surplus-and-the-material/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15533 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2012 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2012.1.4doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Peld, Nathan Daniel Review of No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way /Nathan Daniel Peld. Resistance Studies Magazine2012 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2012), p. 1-2 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-no-land-no-house-no-vote-voices-from-symphony-way/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15532 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2012 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2012.1.3doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Koefoed, Minoo Cultural Resistance in Occupied Palestine: Contesting the Myth that “It’s Not Real Resistance” /Minoo Koefoed. Resistance Studies Magazine2012 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2012), p. 1-24 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/cultural-resistance-in-occupied-palestine-contesting-the-myth-that-its-not-real-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15531 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2012 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2012.1.2doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Martin, Brian Corruption Tactics: Outrage Management in a Local Government Scandal /Brian Martin. Resistance Studies Magazine2012 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier A mobilised citizenry is a threat to corrupt operations. Therefore, those involved in behaviours potentially labelled as corrupt have an interest in minimising public outrage. Five ways of doing this are to hide the activity, denigrate opponents, reinterpret actions as legitimate, use official channels to give an appearance of justice, and intimidate or bribe people involved. A local government scandal in Wollongong, Australia, illustrates all these tactics, with public hearings and media coverage providing volumes of revealing information. The implication of this analysis is that anti-corruption efforts should emphasise ways of increasing public outrage. Resistance Studies Magazine 2012-01 From: rsmag.org 1 Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2012), p. 1-40 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/corruption-tactics-outrage-management-in-a-local-government-scandal/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15530 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2012 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 1654-7063 10.63961/rsm.2012.1.1doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Pausch, Markus What is Political Participation Good For? Theoretical Debate and Empirical Data from Austria /Markus Pausch. Resistance Studies Magazine2012 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In democratic societies, citizens’ participation is of crucial importance. But in today’s western European societies, the willingness to participate politically seems to decline. As a consequence, political parties try to re-mobilise citizens. In this context, also theoretical discussions and ideological struggles have become stronger in the last decades. This article tries to shed light on the different theoretical aspects of participation and suggests to enlarge the categories of conventional and unconventional participation by a new categorization in direct and indirect political participation on the one hand and system-maintaining and system- critical participation on the other hand. In political theory and in the public debate, there are two opposing concepts on what participation is good for. One strand highlights a civil society that articulates political interest and is system-critical; the other focuses on system- maintaining participation and on a common good. The article tries to shed light on these theoretical considerations by discussing the case of Austria, a state with a high level of conventional participation and an on-going demographic change. Resistance Studies Magazine1654-7063no. 1, (2012), p. 1-24 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/what-is-political-participation-good-for-theoretical-debate-and-empirical-data-from-austria/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15325 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.008doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Orticio, Julia Film Review: BlacKkKlansmen /Julia Orticio. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 2, (2025), p. 199-206 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-blackkklansmen/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15322 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.007doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Devos, Katrijn Book Review: Becoming Gandhi: My Experiment Living the Mahatma's 6 Moral Truths in Immoral Times /Katrijn Devos. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 2, (2025), p. 193-198 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-becoming-gandhi/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15067 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.006doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Murru, Sarah Sørensen, Majken Jul Editorial: The Evolving Concept of Everyday Resistance: Exploring the Context of Welfare Systems /Sarah Murru and Majken Jul Sørensen. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier With this special issue, our aim is to further explore the fluidity of the concept of (everyday) resistance (Murru et al., 2025). In other words, to let the concept of everyday resistance aside for a while and look at how others make sense of practices that do not quite fit this conceptualization. As the field of resistance studies remains quite isolated, we believe that we can only benefit from bridges with other fields and research that study areas where resistance studies’ scholars have not yet been active. In order to advance the field, this special issue explores what the notion of resistance has to offer in a context where power often presents with a benign face: so-called welfare societies. The welfare system supposedly protects people from social risks throughout the life course and reduces social inequalities. Within such a positive formulation, there has been little space for studying resistances towards and in welfare systems. Welfare services are intended to provide care, aid, and support to individuals in need. However, and in spite of well-meaning intentions, support is sometimes experienced as patronizing, misplaced, or an abuse of power. Additionally, welfare service systems have experienced new models of service delivery, new public management, austerity policies, requirements for cost-effectiveness, and marketisation. Often these transformations have meant hard times for people who already struggle in their daily lives. Thus, we explore the forms of resistance work that are observed in this context. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 2, (2025), p. 1-12 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/editorial-the-evolving-concept-of-everyday-resistance-exploring-the-context-of-welfare-systems/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15065 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.005doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Collins, Cambria Delsanto, Marika Guimarães, Inês Murru, Sarah Resisting, Navigating, Zig-zagging: Activists’ Challenges to and Reproductions of Power Relations in Squatting Movements for People on the Move in Brussels /Cambria Collins, Marika Delsanto, Inês Guimarães and Sarah Murru. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier By looking at practices of resistance practiced by activists in emergency housing in Brussels, this research came across an interesting, complex and unexpected practice, emically identified as ‘zig-zagging’. This was the onset of a larger qualitative investigation on ‘zig-zagging’ as a mode of resistance for activists working in a squatting movement, bearing important questions of definition, design, implementation, ethics, and pitfalls. In the complex context of the Belgian systéme d’accueil of protection seekers, actors with different goals, modes of action and powers, namely within institutional organizations and grassroot movements, weave unlikely relationships amidst often contradictory positionalities. Research participants approached ‘zig-zagging’ in different ways across their practices, employing it as a manner of describing movements that are disruptive, subtle and even illegal at times, as well as hopeful, inevitable and necessary. Analysing the entanglements between the Belgian state, institutions and a squatting movement in Brussels from the perspective of activists allowed the exploration of ‘zig-zagging’ on different scales. This article showcases the existence of gaps, overlaps and differences that characterise state and non-state entanglements, as well as the ways in which activists overcome the shortcomings of the welfare state through creative and unpredictable manoeuvres, which can involve passing between modes of resistance in ways linked to activists’ various positionalities. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 2, (2025), p. 13-79 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resisting-navigating-zig-zagging/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15064 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.004doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Nichols, Naomi Institutional Ethnography – A Sociology as, for, and of Resistance /Naomi Nichols. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Institutional Ethnography (or IE) is a method of inquiry developed by Canadian Sociologist, Dorothy E. Smith (2005). IE was developed to generate knowledge that is useful to people engaged in the very ordinary work of constituting their everyday lives—particularly as people’s local practices are hooked into trans-local relations of ruling. Despite a history of conducting and using IE scholarship to identify problems with how people’s lives are institutionally organized and to elaborate tangible ways that processes of institutional organization can be challenged and/or resisted, IE has not been widely used to advance the branch of scholarship described as resistance studies. This is a missed opportunity. This article has two objectives: 1. To identify ways for IE to advance the field of resistance studies, and vice-versa for resistance studies to contribute to new applications for IE scholarship; and 2. Clarify how institutional ethnographers might effectively engage with theory so as to forge better scholarly links with resonant scholarly fields (like resistance studies). Drawing largely on my own use of IE within participatory change-oriented research projects, I argue that IE offers resistance scholars essential epistemic, ontological, and ethical foundations from which to pursue collaborative projects that enable evidence-led change efforts as well as the ongoing informal work of supporting one another to strategically navigate and resist the oppressive institutional relations that differentially permeate our lives. At the same time, I signal opportunities for key conceptual resources in resistance studies (i.e., concepts like resistance knowledge or constructive resistances) to be used by IE scholars to think differently about the activist implications of our schol… Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 2, (2025), p. 53-79 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/institutional-ethnography-a-sociology-as-for-and-of-resistance/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15063 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.003doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Tørrisplass, Ann-Torill Vannebo, Berit Irene ‘Be Honest, They Are More Like Us’: Moral Dimensions of Crisis and Forms of Resistance in Norwegian Refugee Services /Ann-Torill Tørrisplass and Berit Irene Vannebo. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier New regulations have created an intense debate in Norway regarding discriminatory practices in refugee politics, and over refugee settlements in Norwegian municipalities. In this article we ask: how do employees in refugee services experience discriminatory regulations and practices and how do they negotiate and manoeuvre these in their everyday work with refugees? We discuss discriminatory practices in refugee services, based on interviews with employees in refugee services in three Norwegian municipalities. Our findings indicate that employees in refugee services engage in acts of resistance towards what they experience as discriminatory regulations and practices. We rely on insights from institutional ethnography and resistance studies in our analyses of these acts, and show how employees in refugee services are embedded in accountability circuits, a ‘form of coordination [which] brings front-line work into alignment with institutional objectives through the activation of texts’ (Smith 2005; Johnson and Bagatell 2019), and how they develop strategies for handling the moral dilemmas they face in their everyday interactions with people seeking state protection as refugees. The strategies they employ are subtle forms of everyday resistance, where employees engage in critical talk and silent manoeuvring of regulations (Sørensen, Nilsen and Lund 2019) to contest ruling regulations. Our analysis reveals that employees experience what we refer to as a double disjuncture, as actors outside the service—collaborating services, voluntary and civil actors—rely on the same logic embedded in the regulations to discriminate between different groups of refugees. Employees engage in more direct and oppositional forms of resistance in their negotiations with actors they collaborate w… Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 2, (2025), p. 80-117 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resistance-in-norwegian-refugee-services/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15060 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.002doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Malenfant, Jayne Nelson, Alex Louttit-Kijekijik, Charlotte Hunter Gray, Jodi Everyday Resistance of Gender-Diverse People in Canadian Housing Justice Work /Jayne Malenfant, Alex Nelson, Charlotte Hunter Louttit-Kijekijik and Jodi Gray. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Acts of everyday resistance can be integral for queer and trans communities’ survival in systems that may insidiously, or overtly, contribute to everyday violence against them. Gender-diverse people (including transgender, non-binary and Two-Spirit people) have long had to undertake labour to ensure their own survival and that of their communities, including defining, building, and accessing ‘home’ in a ruthlessly gender-normative system. In the territories known as Canada, gender-diverse people are overrepresented in populations navigating housing precarity and are deeply underserved by shelters and housing services. In part, these institutions persist in maintaining rigid binaric gender divisions. In 2019, Canada’s National Housing Strategy Act (NHSA) propelled interest in investigating housing rights violations, and how the State might facilitate housing for all. In this article, we draw on our collective work together to explore rights-based mechanisms for gender-diverse communities, including the creation of a collaborative zine. We consider two key topics: 1) gender-diverse experiences of housing rights (and rights violations), and intersecting experiences in the welfare, education, healthcare, and criminal legal systems—each positioned to offer ‘help’, but more often being sites of systemic discrimination, exclusion, and harm for gender-diverse people; 2) archiving queer and trans resistance and organising, paying attention to tensions between everyday resistance and collective resistance movements. We explore how some housing rights mechanisms—which we position as an exemplification of ‘benign power’—may more effectively build on strategies led by, and grounded in knowledge from, gender-diverse people. We aim for this article to be actionable for other gender-d… Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 2, (2025), p. 121-160 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/everyday-resistance-of-gender-diverse-people/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-15058 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2026.001doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Murru, Sarah Sørensen, Majken Jul Garny, Naïké Andersson, Sandra Fluid and Emerging Collective Resistance: Mapping the Terrain with Political Activist Ethnography /Sarah Murru, Majken Jul Sørensen, Naïké Garny and Sandra Andersson. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance studies has traditionally focused on distinct ‘moments’ of resistance, such as riots, revolutions, or everyday practices of hidden resistance. In this article, we adopt a queer perspective to explore resistance beyond these ‘moments’ and consider how scholars can incorporate the ‘fluid" and ‘in-between’ aspects of resistance in their analysis. Our particular interest lies in conceptualizing emerging collective resistance that may potentially evolve into something akin to a social movement. To investigate this, we bring our fluid understanding of resistance into conversation with institutional ethnography (IE), specifically its subfield of political activist ethnography (PAE). Among its contributions, PAE offers a mapping tool that can assist movements in various ways, for instance in identifying allies. We examine how this mapping can also be valuable in the context of emerging collective resistance. Understanding emerging collective resistance is pertinent globally, but our focus here is on welfare societies. We closely consider the potential roles of professionals and frontline workers, such as social workers, teachers, doctors, and parole officers, in developing emerging collective resistance together with their students, clients, and patients. This is especially relevant if they strive to engage in constructive resistance and create alternatives outside or at the border of dominant structures. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 2, (2025), p. 162-192 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/political-activist-ethnography/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-13435 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.200doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Jackson, Richard Resistance Studies and the Gaza Genocide /Richard Jackson. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier 'it is not unreasonable to suggest that the genocide in Gaza poses a series of conceptual, analytical and normative challenges for resistance scholars, and we are bound to ask searching questions about whether our concepts, theories, principles and normative positions remain relevant and useful in this moment of radical challenge. This historical moment presents, as an editorial in this journal suggested earlier, the opportunity to take up ‘new and more radical theoretical frameworks’ to better understand and confront the radical situation posed by the genocide in Gaza (Johansen and Vinthagen, 2020).' Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 1, (2025), p. 6-13 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resistance-studies-and-the-gaza-genocide/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-13433 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.201doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Mahan, Laura N. Embracing Maladjustment: Deaf-Led Resistance, Police Violence, and Decolonial Participatory Action Research /Laura N. Mahan. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This paper integrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s concept of creative maladjustment with decolonial participatory action research (DPAR) to address systemic violence and inequities experienced by the Deaf community. Rejecting deficit-based paradigms, the study centers the lived experiences of Deaf, Hard of Hearing, DeafBlind, and DeafDisabled individuals to develop community-led responses to institutional harm. Focus group findings reveal persistent structural barriers, epistemic exclusion, linguistic marginalization, and systemic inaccessibility, that reinforce carceral logics and undermine Deaf autonomy in seeking justice. In response, the study proposes participatory workshops that foster cultural competency, empowerment, and solidarity across service institutions and advocacy networks. These interventions reimagine safety, accessibility, and justice beyond carceral frameworks. Situating this work within broader resistance movements, the paper illustrates how creative maladjustment and DPAR function as transformative tools to resist epistemic violence and advance disability justice. It contributes to critical disability studies, participatory research, and abolitionist frameworks by demonstrating the power of community-driven research in challenging systemic harm. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 1, (2025), p. 14-52 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/embracing-maladjustment-deaf-led-resistance/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-13431 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.202doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Abu-Ras, Wahiba Barakat, Sultan Decker, Eliza Reexamining Power and Resistance: Critical Theory and the ‘Not in Our Name’ Movement Amid the Israeli War on Gaza /Wahiba Abu-Ras, Sultan Barakat and Eliza Decker. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This article examines the Not in Our Name (NION) movement through the integrated lenses of Critical Theory and Resistance Studies, focusing on how Jewish activists in the United States challenge dominant Zionist narratives and reframe Jewish identity through ethical dissent, historical trauma, and nonviolent resistance. Drawing on public discourse, protest materials, and digital media, the study examines how NION utilizes trauma-informed and relational activism to craft counter-hegemonic narratives that challenge the dominant ideological narratives of structural violence promoted by pro-Israel Zionist voices. Positioned within the context of the latest Israeli war on Gaza, the NION movement interrogates prevailing assumptions that conflate Jewish identity with unconditional support for Israeli state policies. By invoking Holocaust memory, NION critiques state violence and advocates for a justice-oriented Jewish identity rooted in universal human rights. This article demonstrates how collective trauma becomes a catalyst for cultural and political identity reconstruction, enabling marginalized voices within the Jewish community to contest dominant power structures. Ultimately, this article contributes to scholarship on resistance by illustrating how memory, identity, and activism intersect to foster long-term emancipatory change. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 1, (2025), p. 53-97 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/reexamining-power-and-resistance-critical-theory-and-the-not-in-our-name-movement/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-13428 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.203doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Awuh, Harrison Esam Meijer, Doeke Sierd Warnder Bailey, Ajay Sandtke, Brent Schwering, Carmen Fifty shades of resistance: Rethinking deviance in food system transformation living labs in the Netherlands, Uganda and the United States of America /Harrison Esam Awuh, Doeke Sierd Warnder Meijer, Ajay Bailey, Brent Sandtke and Carmen Schwering. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Living labs have become increasingly popular as grounds for testing innovative practices that can lead to food system transformation. In these labs, rules and regulations are needed to ensure their everyday functioning. However, in the application of these rules and regulations, while acceptance is generally seen as the agreeable response that is expected from stakeholders or participants, resistance is often seen as the act of creating disorder. This paper contends that resistance has not been well understood or has been under-theorised in the governance of living labs as platforms for food system transformation. Using cases from radically different contexts (Uganda, The United States of America and The Netherlands), this paper qualitatively investigates the extent to which forms of resistance can contribute to adaptive food system transformation. The findings are as follows: 1. Resistance in all its forms is capable of being innovative. 2. Resistance evolves over time and can be part of a chain reaction with one form leading to another. 3. Trust and shared values between participants are key elements in all forms of resistance. These findings represent a shift from viewing all resistance as negative disordering to seeing certain forms of resistance and under certain conditions as possible positive reordering of food system transformation in living labs Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 1, (2025), p. 96-139 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/fifty-shades-of-resistance-rethinking-deviance-in-food-system-transformation-living-labs-in-the-netherlands-uganda-and-the-united-states-of-america/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-13423 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.204doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Apetrei, Eduard Ionut Book Review: Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian invasion of 2022 /Eduard Ionut Apetrei. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Book Review of Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian invasion of 2022 by Dominique Arel and Jesse Driscoll Cambridge University Press, 2023 'Ukraine's Unnamed War: Before the Russian invasion of 2022 by Dominique Arel and Jesse Driscoll (2023) is a very concise book that aims to illustrate the most important events in the recently troubled history of Ukraine. By taking a thorough geo-political journey between 2013 and 2022, the authors aim to set up the context that ultimately led to Russia’s full-scale invasion. Consequently, the book manages to address the different complexities of Ukraine’s geo-politics by successfully integrating analytical discussions about identity issues, power dynamics and hybrid warfare.' Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 1, (2025), p. 141-150 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-ukraines-unnamed-war/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-13420 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.205doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Van der Meulen, Lisa Book Review: Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World /Lisa Van der Meulen. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Book review of Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World by Stephanie Hartle & Darcy White, Bloomsbury Publishing Arts, 2022 'In the introduction of Visual Activism in the 21st Century, editors Stephanie Hartle and Darcy White state that the book questions the association between the visual and activism. Hartle and White wish to contribute to ‘a growing understanding of cultural and global differences concerning the nature of the relationship of art to the visual elements of activism’. By focusing on art and activism, the book attempts to add to recent discussions about the political potential of art.' Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 1, (2025), p. 151-159 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/book-review-visual-activism-in-the-21st-century-art-protest-and-resistance-in-an-uncertain-world-by-stephanie-hartle-darcy-white/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-13417 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.206doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Willems, Elena Album Review: To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar /Elena Willems. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Album Review of  To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar, Top Dawg Entertainment/ Aftermath Entertainment/ Interscope Records, 2015 'The album’s central theme is the systematic oppression experienced by Black people in America. Kendrick Lamar raps about racism, and the violence associated with it. He focuses on different kinds of violence, such as police brutality, gang violence and discrimination. He also raps about the economic disparities that affect the lives of Black people in America. Throughout the album, Lamar shows us the harsh realities of racial injustice. By doing so, he also critiques the structures and institutions that perpetuate oppression. Thus, he focuses attention on the power relations influencing racism, poverty and marginalization.' Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 1, (2025), p. 159-168 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-to-pimp-a-butterfly/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-13414 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.207doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Van Rillaer, Laura Album Review: Untitled (Black Is) /Laura Van Rillaer. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of the music album: Untitled (Black Is) by SAULT 'The album Untitled (Black Is) was released on June 19, 2020. This date is significant as it coincides with Juneteenth, an American holiday marking the liberation of enslaved African Americans in the United States, further embedding the album within a context of liberation and celebration of Black freedom. The title, Untitled (Black Is), emphasizes the complexity and richness of Black identity, presenting it as multifaceted and resistant to simplistic definitions. It stands as an open-ended affirmation that Blackness is many things, beautiful, resilient, strong, and undefinable by external constraints, as is emphasized in their song ‘Black Is’.' Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 1, (2025), p. 168-181 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-untitled-black-is-by-sault/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-13411 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.208doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Rizzo, Benedetta Book Review: Dressing the Resistance: The Visual Language of Protest Through History /Benedetta Rizzo. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Book Review of Dressing the Resistance: The Visual Language of Protest Through History by Camille Benda, Princeton Architectural Press, 2021 This work by Camille Benda results in being perfectly timely while also being backed by historical contents. The overall outline guides the reader through the journey in a clear and functional way, by dissecting a multitude of forms and facets of fashion and of activist movements. The historical evolution is analyzed not only through popular pillar cases, but it is enriched by micromovements, providing abundant examples with respective visual contents, which complete the rich descriptions provided by the author. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 1, (2025), p. 181-189 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/book-review-dressing-the-resistance-the-visual-language-of-protest-through-history-by-camille-benda/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-13409 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.209doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Erbaş, Güneş Deren Book Review: Producing feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation /Güneş Deren Erbaş. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of Producing feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation by Jennifer S. Clark, University of California Press, 2024 'As Clark suggests, at a time when the women’s movement and women’s liberation discussions were on the rise, representation of feminism within commercial television was still at quite a commercialized stage, requiring compelling stories and images with consumption value. Still of relevance to some extent, feminist expression of ideas rarely found their place in television and broadcasting, as the priority was to reach the mass audience and focus on topics that they would respond to (Clark, 2024, p. 124).' Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 1, (2025), p. 190-196 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/book-review-producing-feminism-television-work/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-13404 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.210doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Dinçsoy, Ezgi Book Review: Producing feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation /Ezgi Dinçsoy. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Overall, Clark’s book presents a rather captivating, well-executed piece of historical research regarding women’s liberation in the television industry during the 1970s. The author gives out relevant details regarding certain individuals, companies, or production processes in a comprehensive manner. Moreover, the different case studies make up for a rather dynamic sense of research that covers more than one dimension of the field that is being researched. Therefore, rather than taking one singular case as a starting point for research, the book succeeds in attracting the reader’s attention with a broad range of topics. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 11, no. 1, (2025), p. 196-202 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/book-review-producing-feminism/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-12550 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.001doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Johansen, Jørgen War Resisters League: 100 Years of Resistance to War and the Causes of War – Book Review /Jørgen Johansen. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier War Resisters League (WRL) has every reason to celebrate its 100th anniversary, and this small booklet is a great summary of the history of the most important peace organization in US history. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 2, (2025), p. 143-144 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/war-resisters-league-100-years-of-resistance-to-war-and-the-causes-of-war-book-review/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-12546 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.002doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan Judit Neurink: The Good Terrorist: a novel based on true-life stories from the Caliphate - Book review /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Judit Neurink: The Good Terrorist is a unique book. It is a truly engaging novel, like any decent suspense story with relationships you feel invested in, one that is hard to put down, where you want to know what happens next to persons you deeply care for. At the same time, it is an insightful story which gives nuances to the stereotypical Western narrative of Muslim terrorists. The book deals with the horrendous crimes committed in Iraq by the 'Islamic State' under their self-declared Caliphate (2014-2017), where we follow some of the people directly involved with the violent extremism of Daesh/ISIS. Nevertheless, it succeeds in delivering a disarming story with believable characters, based on deep knowledge, in a well-written style and even with a hopeful narrative (without the slightest naïve ending). The author, Dutch journalist Judit Neurink, is well positioned to write this story as someone who lived and worked in Kurdistan during the whole period, interviewing people who defected or were involved in different ways. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 2, (2025), p. 140-142 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-good-terrorist-book-review/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-12543 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.003doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Katavic, Mara Cynthia Enloe: Twelve feminist lessons of war - Book review /Mara Katavic. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In the thought-provoking work Twelve Feminist Lessons of War, Cynthia Enloe, a prominent scholar in feminist theory and international politics, explores the intersection of gender, conflict, and power relations. Released by the University of California Press in 2023, this influential text delves into how women's lived experiences of war differ significantly from men's, offering critical insights drawn from women activists' engagement within war zones globally. The book aims to shed light on the feminist understanding of war, stemming from the initial premise that women's wars are not equal to men's wars and that insufficient attention has been paid to women's wars. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 2, (2025), p. 134-139 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/cynthia-enloe-twelve-feminist-lessons-of-war-book-review/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-12540 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.004doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Becker, Josephine Shourideh C. Molavi: Environmental Warfare in Gaza - Book review /Josephine Becker. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Environmental Warfare in Gaza is incredibly timely in capturing the environmental warfare tactics employed by Israel, and which are often forgotten in dominant discourses of warfare and military tactics. It is an essential read to understand how relations of power are established and solidified through environmental landscapes, how natural elements are used by the settler-colonial entities weaponizing, managing and modifying Palestinian land according to Zionist visions, whilst also being an invaluable documentation of how the production of new ecologies produces new formations of resistance, and how Palestinian liberation struggles are deeply intertwined to the land. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 2, (2025), p. 130-133 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/shourideh-c-molavi-environmental-warfare-in-gaza-book-review/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-12537 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.005doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sels, Amber Jenny For a Future: A Plea for Utopian Thinking in Resistance Studies /Amber Jenny Sels. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Victoria W. Wolcott: Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement - Book review This review aims to bring forward how Living in the Future, as a history book, interacts with and contributes to the field of Resistance Studies. First, I will outline the content and key concepts of the book. Next, I will approach the book from a Resistance point of view, outlining its impressive work in showing the full scope of the utopian Civil Rights resistance movement, even though some concepts and utopian theories could have been further developed. I conclude with a plea for the potential of utopianism in Resistance Studies today, especially regarding the environmental movement. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 2, (2025), p. 123-129 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/wolcott-living-in-the-future-utopianism-and-the-long-civil-rights-movement-book-review/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-12533 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.006doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Gambade, Joséphine James M. Lawson, Jr: Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom - Book Review /Joséphine Gambade. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In this book, Lawson argues for the efficiency of nonviolent direct actions within the current global social crises context (2024, xii). Relying on a variety of case studies rooted in the antiracist US civil rights, as well as a variety of nonviolent postcolonial and anti-capitalist movements around the world (e.g. in Poland or South Africa), the book aims at providing enough evidence and practical information on why and how to effectively start and achieve the aims of a nonviolent resistance movement against the current 'plantation capitalist' system (7-8). Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 2, (2025), p. 115-122 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/lawson-jr-revolutionary-nonviolence-organizing-for-freedom-book-review/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-12483 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.007doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda ElAmoor, Izat Mashrou’ Leila’s Musical Affective Politics: Queer Resistance in the Egyptian Social and Political Uprising /Izat ElAmoor. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier On June 14, 2020, queer Egyptian Sarah Hegazy died by suicide in Canada, where she was exiled shortly after her release from prison in Egypt for raising a rainbow flag during a Mashrou’ Leila (ML) concert on September 22, 2017. Following the concert night, Egypt saw widespread arrests of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) individuals amidst an imposed media block-out on the queer community. Soon after, a transnational response came from queer groups around the world as they mobilized in solidarity with the Egyptian queer community. Inspired by this concert and its aftermath, this article offers an analysis of ML’s music (lyrics), videos, images, interviews, fan base, and other opinions and perspectives of them. Within this analysis, to assess ML’s sociopolitical significance, I posit the concert as a distinctively unique culmination event generative of queer affective politics of resistance for the Egyptian queer community since the 2011 uprising. In doing so, this article contextualizes state-sponsored homophobic violence as an intrinsic component of the new regime’s political transition using a musical queer analysis that is entangled in Egypt’s body politics, international diplomatic relations, and domestic legal and sociocultural perceptions on morality. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 2, (2025), p. 73-104 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/queer-resistance-in-the-egyptian-uprising/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-12481 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.008doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda El Meadawy, Mohamed From Ordinary to Revolutionary Dynamics of Mobilization in the Egyptian Revolution /Mohamed El Meadawy. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier The Egyptian revolution of 2011 was one of the earliest waves of the Arab Spring. Within only 18 days, Mubarak was forced to step down, ending thirty years of authoritarian rule. This study seeks to explain the process of mobilization that led to the mass uprising by exploring the experiences of a small group of Egyptian women who participated in the protests at Tahrir Square. The study problematizes the radical transformation these women underwent over a short period, evolving from seemingly passive, ordinary citizens to active participants in acts of resistance that ultimately toppled one of the longest-standing dictatorships in the Arab world. Grounded in an ethnographic investigation, this research employs an interpretive design that uses in-depth interviews and analytical coding to delve into the intricate dynamics of mobilization. Drawing on social movement theory and the framework of social nonmovements, the study demonstrates how atomized ordinary citizens can be transformed into revolutionaries through a four-stage process of mobilization. First, individuals share similar grievances against a common adversary, which fosters a sense of solidarity. This solidarity emerges from collective experiences of oppression, inequality, or corruption that resonate across different social and economic backgrounds. Second, the sense of solidarity is communicated and reinforced through social media networks, enabling participants to recognize their shared grievances and align their common positions. Third, this recognition of shared commonality fosters a collective identity, allowing individuals to perceive themselves as part of a unified entity. Finally, this unified entity is spurred into collective action by the occurrence of triggering events, which catalyze the latent po… Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 2, (2025), p. 39-71 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/dynamics-of-mobilization-in-the-egyptian-revolution/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-12479 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.009doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Bonasera, Lea Nonviolent resistance failure: internal reasons why campaigns struggle to win (and what we can learn from it) /Lea Bonasera. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Existing literature on nonviolent resistance typically emphasizes the elements that contribute to a campaign’s success. Conversely, mechanisms leading to the failure of such nonviolent resistance campaigns in democratic countries have been underexplored. The research is largely limited to external mechanisms of failure, which will be briefly outlined, including missed political opportunities, hard and soft repression by states and media, as well as conflicting interactions with other campaigns. Accordingly, this article analyzes the internal mechanisms explaining nonviolent resistance failure. Data from three campaigns of the German climate movement, primarily gathered through autoethnography and participatory action research, are brought into a reflective conversation with the nonviolent resistance literature to develop a framework of internal failure mechanisms. This includes: 1) lacking resources; 2) fragile organizational structures; 3) weak support bases; 4) ineffective tactics; and 5) little strategy. By gaining a deeper understanding of the challenges that campaigns face and viewing these as opportunities for constructive failure, this may increase their chances of success. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 2, (2025), p. 10-38 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/nonviolent-resistance-failure/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-12477 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2025 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.010doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Martin, Brian Where to, resistance studies? /Brian Martin. Journal of Resistance Studies2025 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier The field incorporates diverse theoretical perspectives and draws on numerous academic disciplines. For contrast, think of social movement studies, where most of the attention is on the activities of groups rather than individuals. Resistance studies is broader. What can be gained from that? One advantage is the possibility of applying ideas from one domain to another. An example is resistance in organizations. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 2, (2025), p. 5-9 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/where-to-resistance-studies/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11756 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.011doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sørensen, Majken Jul Shaazka Beyerle; Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice, Lynne Reinner, 2014 /Majken Jul Sørensen. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Focusing on citizens' initiatives against corruption, Beyerle’s book brings a refreshing new perspective to the study of civil resistance and nonviolent action, and how to counter this particular type of misconduct from the bottom-up. Beyerle’s more than seven case studies from Afghanistan, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, Uganda, and elsewhere add deep insight into how grassroots initiatives can be organized and performed in campaigns that blacklist corrupt politicians, monitor development projects, or organize citizens to protect an anti-corruption institution, as done in Indonesia. The case studies include many concrete examples of practical campaign tools, such as the “zero-rupee” note from India, useful to hand over to civil servants asking for an extra “fee.” Each case is systematically structured with a description of the case and its context, the campaign attributes, outcomes, case analysis, and lessons learned. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 1, (2015), p. 164-165 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/beyerle-curtailing-corruption/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11755 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.012doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Cristiano, Fabio Jeff Shantz and Jordon Tomblin; Cyber Disobedience; Re://Presenting Online Anarchy. Zero Books, 2014 /Fabio Cristiano. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier With this ambitious book, Shantz and Tomblin offer an engaging overview on the different practices of disobedience and resistance that define the internet as a space for antagonistic politics. While the volume comprises seven chapters that follow a well-articulated introduction section, in fact, three broad themes can be identified for the sake of this review: anarchism and hacker/hacktivist subjectivities (introduction, chapters 1 & 2); whistle-blowers and online anti-capitalism (chapters 3, 4 & 5); online commons and the prospect of cyber-syndicalism (chapters 6 & 7). Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 1, (2015), p. 165-167 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/cyber-disobedience/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11754 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.013doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Carter, April Kurt Schock; Civil Resistance Today, Polity Press, 2015 /April Carter. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Kurt Schock's book Civil Resistance Today, which covers all these movements and provides an introductory and up-to-date analytical overview, is therefore very timely. In the last few years, there has also been a rapid growth in the literature on civil resistance, as Schock notes in his Preface, listing 'important' publications since 2009. He draws on most of these within his text, as well as surveying the historical evolution of the literature and the key role of Gandhi's campaigns and ideas in the development of civil resistance. Schock summarises Gene Sharp's central contribution to understanding the theory, methods, and dynamics of how civil resistance works, but also queries (sometimes citing other contributors to the literature) the adequacy of some of Sharp's formulations, for example his 'consent theory' of power. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 1, (2015), p. 167-170 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/kurt-schock-civil-resistance-today-book-review/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11753 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.014doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan Dudouet, Véronique (ed.); Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation: Transitions from Armed to Nonviolent Struggle, Routledge, 2015 /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation: Transitions from Armed to Nonviolent Struggle, edited by Véronique Dudouet (2015), researches a key phenomenon that has previously gained much less attention than it deserves. This book describes and systematically analyzes the amazing and counter-intuitive trend of armed liberation groups that, after decades of frustrated attempts with military means, opted for a strategy of nonviolent resistance mobilizations. We regularly hear the claim of frustrated activists who reject peaceful protest since it ‘does not work’, and instead they turn their hopes towards ‘stronger’, violent means of struggle. Thus, Civil Resistance and Conflict Transformation shows by major examples that the opposite is also common—how seasoned guerilla groups transform to employing methods of nonviolent struggle. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 1, (2015), p. 171-179 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/dudouet-civil-resistance-and-conflict-transformation-transitions-from-armed-to-nonviolent-struggle-routledge-2015/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11749 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.015doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Ølgaard, Daniel Møller Play, Politics, & the Practice of Resistance /Daniel Møller Ølgaard. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Politics are Fun Again. It is a seductive and influential image of our contemporary world that Jean Baudrillard presents. In the transition from the modern era of manual production to the postmodern age of global information technologies, our world ‘has been launched into hyperspace in a kind of postmodern apocalypse … leaving us satellites in aimless orbit around an empty center’ (Massumi 1987: 90). The substitution of reality with the signs and symbols that simulate reality means that everything is essentially empty, passive, and without meaning. Art has become the art of pure reproduction of signs that may tease but never disturb order (Kellner 1989: 109-111). And politics has lost its antagonistic dimension as critique of those-in-power merely ‘dignifies power’s claim on reality’ rendering the practice of resistance ‘an unending, self-regenerating, tautological spiral’ (Fardy 2012: 185). But there is also another image of our world floating around today. During the last decade or so, rather than a state of apathy, we have witnessed the creation of a worldwide movement against neoliberalism [and] a continuous wave of riots, strikes, and occupations across the world, emerging with a frequency and intensity historically unmatched since the last great social movements of the 1960s and 70s (Nail 2013). Alongside this eruption, attention has returned to the role of aesthetics in the study of international politics (Bleiker 2001) and specifically how art ‘comes to situate itself’ in framing the debate on the interplay between ‘art, politics, and resistance’ (Jabri 2006: 819). We might still formulate powerful forms of critique today through aesthetical experience and creative forms of expression (Harrebye 2013). As Zizek (2005) asks: ‘Is not precisely the ‘postmodern’ pol… Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 1, (2015), p. 119-153 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/play-politics-the-practice-of-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11748 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.016doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda MacLeod, Jason Building Resilience to Repression in Nonviolent Resistance Struggles /Jason MacLeod. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Nonviolent movements are more effective than violent ones and casualties will be fewer than if the resistance was waged through armed struggle. However, nonviolent movements are still not immune to repression. This article presents a new framework that orders theory and practice – how nonviolent resistance movements can effectively respond to repression by opponents – across five dimensions: strategy, tactics, organisational structure, individual activists, and advance preparation and planning. The framework is applied to the situation in West Papua, arguably an exemplar of a ‘worst case scenario’ – an internationally isolated Indigenous population resisting an extremely ruthless opponent – and is supplemented with examples from other nonviolent resistance movements. A proactive and systematic response to repression by opponents makes it more likely that acts of violence against activists will function to strengthen the movement and weaken the opponent. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 1, (2015), p. 77-118 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/building-resilience-to-repression-in-nonviolent-resistance-struggles/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11747 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.017doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Kullenberg, Christopher Citizen Science as Resistance: Crossing the Boundary Between Reference and Representation /Christopher Kullenberg. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This article analyses citizen science as a resistance practice with regards to the contradictions that emerge when scientific methods are used for political struggles. Departing from how science and politics are constructed as a contrast, as recently put forth by philosopher Bruno Latour, the scientific method for creating reference and the political method for gaining representation are analysed as they are articulated in citizen science. This evokes further contradictions between local acts of resistance and the global aspirations of scientific methods, challenging both the particularity of micropolitics and the universality of science. Building on previous case studies of citizen science practices, a number of conclusions are drawn regarding the potentials and dangers emerging from a science that takes place in the peripheries of established institutions. The article concludes that citizen science can be a very successful resistance practice, as long as it is able to produce novel facts that still adhere to scientific methods and standards and remains connected to the established institutions of science. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 1, (2015), p. 50-76 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/citizen-science-as-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11746 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.018doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Maye-Banbury, Angela Repertoires of Resistance: How Agency Fuelled Rhetoric, Resistance and Rebellion During Mao’s Housing Revolution /Angela Maye-Banbury. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Little published research highlights how Chinese residents sought to resist state imposed housing policies when Mao Zedong was Communist Party leader (1949 - 1976) of the People’s Republic of China. By using extracts from previously unpublished eye witness accounts, this paper bridges that gap in existing scholarship. The paper shows how Burke’s (1966; 1969) dramaturgically informed method of narrative analysis may be instrumental in revealing agency as resistance. Analysis of three previously unpublished vignettes, contextualised within metaphorical representations of resistance, reveals a new tripartite typology of agency whereby resistance is characterized as: agency through deferment; agency through acquiescence and agency through protest. The potential of hidden transcripts, discourses of rightful resistance and the donning of the metaphorical perruque to reveal sub-cultures of power at the neighbourhood level in Mao’s China are exposed. The extent to which the eclectic mix of both resistance strategies and tactics enabled the residents and other stakeholders to improve their social, cultural and material capital over space, place and time is reviewed. In its concluding comments, the paper reflects on the new typology. The methodological challenges present when using eye witness accounts in reviews of agency as resistance both in the Maoist era and mainland China as a whole are considered. Implications for future research and resistance theory are also explored. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 2, (2015), p. 51-84 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/repertoires-of-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11745 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.019doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sobatpoonsiri, Janjira Majken Jul Sørensen; Humorous Political Stunts /Janjira Sobatpoonsiri. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier “Humorous political stunts can be powerful stories because they frequently speak to the imagination,” writes Majken Jul Sørensen in her fascinating new book Humorous Political Stunts: Nonviolent Public Challenges to Power. The author invites readers to walk with her in her journey to explore the creativity and wit involved in nonviolent activism. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 2, (2015), p. 210-211 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/sorensen-humorous-political-stunts/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11711 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.020doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Weber, Thomas Joan V. Bondurant; Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict /Thomas Weber. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Joan V. Bondurant's "Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict" brought Gandhian nonviolence into the political science mainstream, becoming the definitive text on the subject. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 1, (2015), p. 180-186 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/bondurant-conquest-of-violence-the-gandhian-philosophy/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11710 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.021doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Partridge, Tristan Recoupling Groups Who Resist Dimensions of Difference, Opposition and Affirmation /Tristan Partridge. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This article explores a shift in focus from the outcomes of collective action to the processes and cooperation forms that resistance groups create and embody. By rejecting imposed categories of difference and redefining opposition, these groups generate opportunities for "recoupling" and forming strengthened alliances. Drawing on fieldwork in Ecuador and the theories of Deleuze, Derrida, and Haraway, the article suggests that these processes are grounded in acts of "affirmation" that reaffirm vital social, economic, and ecological relations. The dynamics observed in Ecuadorian indigenous activism reflect broader collaborative struggles for equality and social justice. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 2, (2015), p. 12-50 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/recoupling-groups/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11709 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.022doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sørensen, Majken Jul Jaques Semelin; Unarmed Against Hitler /Majken Jul Sørensen. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier “Unarmed Against Hitler” may not hold the status of a "real" classic, but it is a must-read. For those interested in civilian resistance and nonviolent struggles, the book tackles the difficult question, "What would you have done about Hitler?" Historian Jacques Semelin uses comparative history to explore the factors that enable or obstruct non-cooperation, protests, strikes, civil disobedience, and rescue operations during oppressive regimes. This examination alone makes it a compelling and thought-provoking read. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2016), p. 146-153 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/jaques-semelin-unarmed-against-hitler/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11708 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.023doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Marneweck, Aja Sexual and Spiritual R-Evolution through Animism: The Feminine Semiotics of Puppetry /Aja Marneweck. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This article examines resistant representational strategies of the feminine through animism-based creative practices like puppetry. It engages with critical issues of identity, representation, and embodiment in South Africa, proposing the Feminine Semiotics of animism as a new way to envision feminine form and theory. Key concepts such as liminality, leakage, and permeability are explored through animist puppetry, which acts as a sentient tool, revealing the constructs of being while blending imagination and form. By drawing on Trinh T. Minh-ha's concept of the "inappropriate other," the article interprets how women’s puppetry pushes the boundaries of political and sexual discourse, fostering new pathways for feminine resistance and empowerment. It highlights the work of female artists Nandipha Mntambo and Jill Joubert, demonstrating how contemporary animist practices offer fresh strategies for creative expression and intersectional critique. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 2, (2016), p. 134-166 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/feminine-semiotics-of-puppetry/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11707 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.024doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Bayer, Markus Engler, Mark and Paul, This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-First Century /Markus Bayer. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Engler and Engler address a basic problem everyone engaged in social change must face: whether to follow a movement-based or structure-oriented approach. The ideas of the first tradition are exemplified by Fox Piven and Richard Cloward’s theories on social movements and are contrasted with Saul D. Alinsky’s approach of structure-oriented community organizing. The authors eventually conclude that the marriage between both approaches represents a major breakthrough. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 2, (2016), p. 218-221 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/engler-this-is-an-uprising/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11704 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.025doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Stephan, Maria J. Civil Resistance vs. ISIS /Maria J. Stephan. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier ISIS, which aims to create an independent Islamic state, or caliphate, will only be weakened through a multifaceted strategy combining diplomatic, economic, political, and other means. Organized civilian action that aims to disrupt and deny the group’s key sources of power could be a critical part of that strategy. This article will examine this contention and suggest how, practically, such nonviolent resistance could be supported. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 2, (2015), p. 127-150 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/civil-resistance-vs-isis/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11703 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.026doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Jackson, Richard How Resistance Can Save Peace Studies /Richard Jackson. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier For the most part, peace studies has assumed that violent conflict and injustice require ‘peace,’ ‘conflict management,’ and forms of liberal interventionism from external actors. The consequence of this unquestioned assumption has been to prioritize external actors, top-down processes, governance, and conflict mitigation – often at the expense of social justice and local actors. A shift in analytical focus, terminology, and epistemology towards the theory and practice of ‘resistance’ has the potential to re-focus the field on local agency and priorities, local and everyday forms of peace, the role of power dynamics in conflict and peace, structural violence, solidarity, anti-violence, and social justice. Generating such an epistemic and practice shift will be challenging, as it will entail de-privileging the field’s position, empowering the other, abandoning Eurocentrism, and putting immanent critique, radical activism, and other-led research methodologies at the center of its practices. A number of key dangers will have to be avoided along the way, including co-option into system maintenance, the lure of violent resistance, pushback from liberal sensibility, the loss of access to powerful actors, the fragmentation of the peace studies field, and potential marginalization in the neoliberal academy. However, on balance, I argue that the shift towards resistance has the potential to save peace studies by recovering its radical critique of violent global structures and practices and its normative commitment to emancipation. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 1, (2015), p. 18-49 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/how-resistance-can-save-peace-studies/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11702 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.027doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sombatpoonsiri, Janjira Securitization of civil resistance: Thailand’s military junta and beyond /Janjira Sombatpoonsiri. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier On May 22, 2014, Thailand witnessed its twelfth military coup. Despite deficiency in democratic legitimacy, the junta has thus far sustained mass support, while challengers to its rule are denounced as a threat to the restoration of national order. This article seeks to demonstrate the way in which security discourses in Thailand are manufactured and employed to undermine civil resistance to the military junta. It relies on the securitization concept to analyse the discursive depth of repression which potentially undermines the effect of ‘Political Jiu-jitsu’ and ‘Backfire’ examined in civil resistance literature. The Thai case shows that four discursive components consolidate the framing of dissidents as a security threat. These are: 1) A security narrative creating fear of national order breakdown due to polarising conflicts caused by representative democracy; 2) A security narrative promising the reintroduction of political stability through military dictatorship; 3) The identification of anti-junta protests as acts that threaten to sabotage this order-restoration process; 4) The portrayal of the army-led junta as the national savior protecting Thailand from internal threats, including protests demanding democracy. The article concludes by suggesting that in order to combat the securitization strategy of the junta, pro-democracy activists need to develop de-securitization strategies in order to enhance the effectiveness of their campaigns. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 2, (2015), p. 85-126 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/securitization-of-civil-resistance-thailands-military-junta/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11701 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.028doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Weber, Thomas Kurt Schock (ed.), Civil Resistance: Comparative Perspectives on Nonviolent Struggle /Thomas Weber. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Schock, in his introductory essay, makes the point that to understand civil resistance, there are four central dynamics: widespread mobilization, weathering repression, severing the opponent from its sources of power, and constructing alternatives. Varying essays in this collection tackle different aspects of this dynamic, with several of them drawing not only on the literature of civil resistance but also that of social movements and revolution. We are presented with a view of nonviolence that takes local and personal realities into account in ways that are only just now making an appearance in the literature on nonviolence. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2016), p. 161-169 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/schock-ed-civil-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11700 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.029doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Seppälä, Tiina Feminizing Resistance, Decolonizing Solidarity: Contesting Neoliberal Development in the Global South /Tiina Seppälä. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Social movements in the global South have contested neoliberal development, a major cause of forced displacement, already for decades. Since it is usually the poor, low-caste women who suffer most from large-scale development projects, they have been active in forming movements that contest neoliberal development and neocolonialism, often struggling also against patriarchalism, sexism, and heteronormativity. The phenomenon has been referred to as “feminization of resistance,” and it has been studied from many different perspectives across disciplines. However, in conceptualizing women’s resistance, their political engagement, and activism in the global South, Western theoretical approaches often build on a limited, Eurocentric or Anglo-American perspective, ignoring many aspects that are crucial in non-Western contexts. While especially Western political science is increasingly often criticized for its false universalism, whiteness, and elitism, the demand to decolonize feminism has recently gained more ground in this context. Through an analysis of ethnographic fieldwork with social movement activists in Kolkata, India, and in Kathmandu, Nepal, this article discusses the feminization of resistance in South Asia, highlighting the importance of decolonizing forms of feminist solidarity while also reflecting on its potentials and challenges in the context of engaged social movement research. Drawing on activists’ views, critiques, conceptualizations, and suggestions, this paper argues that taking into account their perspectives, that is, learning from movements – while simultaneously trying to unlearn one’s own academic privileges – creates potential not only for enriching and broadening the theoretical debate on feminization of resistance but can also contribute to effo… Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2016), p. 12-47 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/feminizing-resistance-decolonizing-solidarity/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11699 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.030doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Morrison, Jenny Little feminism, but lots of feminists: Feminist resistance and the Scottish independence movement /Jenny Morrison. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier The Scottish independence campaign became a mass social movement against austerity in the lead-up to the independence referendum of 18 September 2014. The participation of the radical left in the campaign built up a form of resistance to the British neoliberal status quo. However, little attention has been paid to the role of feminist radicals in the movement. Drawing on feminist theory, this article presents data from interviews with 37 pro-independence activists illuminating feminist strategies of resistance. Feminist participation and practices of resistance in two main forums are examined: firstly, in the cross-class women’s group Women for Independence (WFI), and secondly in the principal left-wing organisation, the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC). The possibilities of the alliance with WFI are considered, alongside the constraints of a cross-class group for feminist radicals in resisting multiple interacting power relations. Conversely, in RIC, resistance to the marginalisation of women and feminism is examined. This article critically examines contemporary feminist radical resistance to unravel the limitations imposed by a discourse of individualism. As shown in the analysis, while structural understandings of concepts such as capitalism or patriarchy are rhetorically invoked, resistance is primarily focused on self-transformation or persuading others to change their personal behaviour. This emphasis impedes the development of a collective feminist praxis to resist the structures behind individual behaviour. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2016), p. 79-112 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/feminist-resistance-and-the-scottish-independence-movement/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11697 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.031doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan Some notes on the Journal of Resistance Studies and its exploration of “resistance” /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier The interest and discussions that our first issue of the Journal of Resistance Studies created motivate a further clarification of our conceptual and theoretical standpoints. Several people – among them authors – have asked what is included within “resistance studies,” and what is not. We as editors have also struggled to explain why we are not happy with article submissions that only refer to others within the (established) field of social movement studies, and do not mention “resistance.” Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 2, (2015), p. 5-11 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/notes-on-the-journal-of-resistance-studies/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11696 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.032doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan We continue to develop resistance studies /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In our work to develop resistance studies, we need to find ways to keep the contention with relations of domination alive and thriving, also when that domination is part of the academia. I do not have the answers to how we need to go about this, but I do know that what made this work possible and created the vision of resistance studies among us PhD students at a peace studies department at the University of Gothenburg was informal networks. It was through linking academics, activists, authors, and interested individuals into a network that created activities growing out of desire – despite no one believing it would “work” – that we found the ideas, inspiration, and energy to do what we do now. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2016), p. 5-11 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/we-continue-to-develop-resistance-studies/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11695 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.033doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Martin, Brian Bartkowski, Maciej; Nonviolent Civilian Defense to Counter Russian Hybrid Warfare /Brian Martin. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This topic is addressed by Maciej Bartkowski in his valuable study of Russian hybrid warfare. In pursuing its war against Ukraine, in the Crimea and the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, the Russian government has used a variety of techniques, including troops in disguise, propaganda, and civilians supported by the state. The civilians engage in sit-ins, occupations and protective accompaniment of troops. The government has learned that Ukrainian troops are reluctant to attack civilians and, if they do, their actions can be used to justify Russian military intervention. Many Ukrainian troops have defected or deserted. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 2, (2015), p. 201-200 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/bartkowski-maciej-nonviolent-civilian-defense-to-counter-russian-hybrid-warfare-book-review/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11532 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.034doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Baaz, Mikael Donatella della Porta: Mobilizing for Democracy: Comparing 1989 and 2011 /Mikael Baaz. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: In her new book, Mobilizing for Democracy: Comparing 1989 and 2011, Donatella della Porta, a Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, addresses a gap in the literature identified by Sydney Tarrow. She aims to examine various "episodes of democratization through the lens of social movement studies" (p. 1). This approach allows for a deeper understanding of how social movements contribute to the processes of democratization across different historical contexts. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 2, (2015), p. 179-188 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/della-porta-mobilizing-for-democracy/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11531 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.035doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan An invitation to Develop “Resistance Studies” /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: The goal of advancing resistance studies is to deepen our understanding of resistance, but it's important to recognize that knowledge can be shaped to serve specific interests. There is no such thing as a completely 'neutral' perspective; our viewpoints are inherently influenced by our interests and values. It is essential that our interests align with critical and emancipatory principles, positioning us in solidarity with subaltern groups and their struggles against domination. This perspective emphasizes the need for research that actively supports resistance movements and challenges oppressive structures. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 1, (2015), p. 5-17 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/an-invitation-to-develop-resistance-studies/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11529 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.036doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Partridge, Kevin Chris Dixon; Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements /Kevin Partridge. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: Another Politics examines the practices of various activists within North American non-violent resistance groups, aiming to identify common challenges and potential solutions. A significant focus of the book is on the contested role of leadership within many anti-authoritarian political movements, exploring how different approaches to leadership can influence the dynamics and effectiveness of these movements. Through this analysis, the book seeks to illuminate strategies that can enhance solidarity and collaboration among activists. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2015), p. 203-210 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/chris-dixon-another-politics/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11528 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.037doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan Lee, Terence; Defect or defend: military responses to popular protests in authoritarian Asia /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: Terence Lee’s Defect or Defend compares two successful regime changes in the Philippines and Indonesia, where popular mobilization was aided by defections within the armed forces, with two failed cases in China and Burma. The failures in China and Burma are attributed to the presence of stronger authoritarian regimes that maintained control through "power-sharing institutions." The book highlights the crucial role of military defection in the success of popular mobilizations, contrasting it with the resilience of authoritarian systems in preventing regime change. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2015), p. 198-200 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/lee-terence-defect-or-defend/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11527 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.038doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan Jason MacLeod: Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua (2015), Dr. Jason MacLeod provides a detailed case study of the Papuan struggle for self-determination, while also offering a broader framework on how nonviolent struggles for self-determination can be waged effectively. MacLeod combines a deep exploration of the unique conditions in West Papua with general strategies for civil resistance, making the book both a specific account of the Papuan context and a useful guide for similar movements worldwide. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2016), p. 154-161 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/jason-macleod-merdeka-and-the-morning-star/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11525 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.039doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sørensen, Majken Jul Janjira Sombatpoonsiri: Humor & Nonviolent Struggle in Serbia /Majken Jul Sørensen. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: Sombatpoonsiri’s Humor & Nonviolent Struggle in Serbia is the first comprehensive account of the Serbian organization Otpor and its pivotal role in the 2000 overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic. While the book emphasizes Otpor’s innovative use of humor as a tool for nonviolent resistance, it also delves into other critical aspects of the movement. Sombatpoonsiri explores how Otpor was structured, its relationships with independent media, and its collaboration with opposition parties. The book offers a well-rounded examination of both the humorous and more serious activities that contributed to the success of the movement. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2016), p. 169-172 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/sombatpoonsiri-humor-nonviolent-struggle-in-serbia/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11524 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.040doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Cherry, Janet Franz Fanon; The Wretched of the Earth /Janet Cherry. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: Frantz Fanon published his most renowned work, The Wretched of the Earth, in 1961—the same year that South Africa officially became an apartheid republic. Given the recent resurgence of Fanon's popularity in South Africa, it is timely to revisit his work. His critiques of the post-colonial elite and the national bourgeoisie have garnered significant attention from left-wing academics and populist political groups, notably the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). These groups have embraced Fanon's analysis to critique the ongoing social and economic inequalities in the country, highlighting his enduring relevance in contemporary South African politics. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2015), p. 151-162 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/franz-fanon-the-wretched-of-the-earth/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11523 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.041doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sørensen, Majken Jul Constructive Resistance: Conceptualising and Mapping the Terrain /Majken Jul Sørensen. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier People living under systems of domination and exploitation engage in resistance in diverse ways, including building and experimenting with alternatives to the present. These efforts, often termed "constructive resistance," involve initiatives where individuals begin to shape the society they desire, independently of the dominant structures. In peace and conflict studies, this concept aligns with Gandhi’s idea of the constructive programme. In anarchist and Marxist traditions, it is known as prefigurative politics. While there are overlaps between these concepts, they emphasize different aspects. Despite frequent discussions among scholars and activists about the need for constructive approaches to resistance, relatively little has been written about analyzing these alternatives. This article proposes a broad definition of constructive resistance, grounded in an inclusive understanding of resistance itself. It explores how to balance the elements of "construction" and "resistance" through diverse examples, considering how much of each is necessary to qualify as constructive resistance. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2016), p. 49-78 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/constructive-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11522 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.042doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Martin, Brian Daniel P. Ritter: The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa /Brian Martin. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: Within this scholarly context, Daniel Ritter’s The Iron Cage of Liberalism offers an innovative contribution. Ritter seeks to blend insights from both structural and strategic perspectives, arguing that a key factor in some cases is the extent to which a dictatorial regime has established ties with Western governments, particularly the U.S., and adopted liberal features such as political parties, elections, and human rights rhetoric. However, the reality often differs: opposition parties may be suppressed, elections rigged, and the regime’s actions may contradict its professed liberal values. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2015), p. 188-198 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/daniel-p-ritter-the-iron-cage-of-liberalism/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11520 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.043doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Gómez Carpinteiro, Francisco Javier Ayotzinapa and Resistance Breaking history with narrative /Francisco Javier Gómez Carpinteiro. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This essay explores the tragic events surrounding the murder of three students and the disappearance of forty-three others from the teacher training college "Escuela Normal Rural of Ayotzinapa" in Guerrero, Mexico, in September 2014. The accused include local authorities and the police, who acted in collusion with organized crime groups. The Mexican state's rhetoric frames this atrocity as a natural and normal incident, a narrative that fosters forgetfulness. The essay argues that memory and hope serve as crucial pillars for constructing alternative narratives, using distinct language and concepts. It calls for the development of new knowledge capable of breaking free from the systems of capital and state power worldwide. The experiences of the relatives of the murdered and missing students can offer a vital guideline for this transformative proposal. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2016), p. 113-145 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/ayotzinapa-and-resistance-breaking-history-with-narrative/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11519 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.044doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Motta, Sara C. Seppälä, Tiina Feminized Resistances /Sara C. Motta and Tiina Seppälä. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: In this special issue of the Journal of Resistance Studies, we aim to offer a tentative and thoughtful mapping of feminized resistances and subjectivities to help navigate these uncertain and transitional times. We believe that engaging with these forms of resistance sheds light on practices of thought and action that can nurture the conditions necessary for emergent and imminent ways of creating, living, and loving differently. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 2, (2016), p. 5-32 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/feminized-resistances/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11518 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.045doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Törnberg, Anton Researching Resistance: Methodological Challenges, Ethical Concerns and the Future of Resistance Studies /Anton Törnberg. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier While reviewing the submissions for this special issue, I noticed that none of them ventured predictions about the future of Resistance Studies. This is likely due to the discipline's emphasis on explaining and understanding past events rather than forecasting trends. However, one of the privileges of writing an editorial is the opportunity to speculate about the future of the field, particularly in relation to methodological developments. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 2, (2017), p. 5-18 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/methodological-challenges-ethical-concerns-and-the-future-of-resistance-studies/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11517 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.046doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Maguire, Annette Precarity as Radical Possibility /Annette Maguire. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier A book review of: Isabell Lorey (2015) States of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious. London: Verso Excerpt: In States of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious (2015), Isabell Lorey advocates for embracing precarity as a radical political proposition. In this concise yet far-reaching book, Lorey presents an argument that centers on the potential for resistance emerging from the pervasive insecurity of modern life. She explores how the condition of precarity, often viewed negatively, can become a source of political empowerment and collective action in response to the structural vulnerabilities inherent in contemporary society. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 2, (2016), p. 211-2017 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/precarity-as-radical-possibility/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11481 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.047doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Motta, Sara C. Decolonizing Australia’s Body Politics: Contesting the Coloniality of Violence of Child Removal /Sara C. Motta. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In this article, I develop a critique of the continual historic and contemporary use of child removal to systematically pathologize and criminalize Black, Indigenous, and poor-white motherhood. I demonstrate how the technologies and rationalities put to work as part of the reproduction of the modern state wound the body politic in ways that disarticulate the conditions of possibility of the political subjectivity of the subaltern. I develop my critique as a re-reading of contemporary child removal in Australia through a decolonizing feminist perspective. Accordingly, I begin by demonstrating how the biopolitical attempt to produce the raced and gendered subject as a non-subject denied rights and rationality is co-constitutive of the foundations and continuing reproduction of settler-colonial societies, including that of the Australian state and polity, in the neoliberal period. However, I do not stop at this point, for this is to re-inscribe the subaltern in the logics of denial of subjectivity of coloniality. Thus, in the second part of the article, emerging from activist scholarship with the Family Inclusion Strategy Hunter, Hunter Valley, NSW Australia—an organization comprised of families who have or are experiencing child removal, practitioners working in the out-of-home care and child protection sectors, and critical scholars that are united in their commitment to foreground the voices, knowledges, and perspectives of birth families in the practices, policies, and politics of child removal—I offer a critique through praxis of these dehumanizing state practices. I focus on three areas: Decolonizing Monologues of Intervention through Dialogues of Connection; Co-construction of Knowledges for Transformation; and Encounters across Borders: Embodying and Embedding Cri… Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 2, (2016), p. 100-133 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/decolonizing-australias-body-politics-contesting-the-coloniality-of-violence-of-child-removal/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11480 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.048doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Nirmal, Padini Queering Resistance, Queering Research: In Search of a Queer Decolonial Feminist Understanding of Adivasi Indigeneity /Padini Nirmal. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In this paper, I place both the methodological and epistemological realms of my doctoral research with the Adivasis (indigenous peoples) of Attappady, Kerala under a queer decolonial feminist lens in order to better understand the nature of contemporary Adivasi indigeneity and indigenous resistance. Given Kerala’s unique position within India as a communist state, often acting in the interest of global capitalism by implementing neoliberal policies and steering state-led development plans, its Adivasis are already queer in their relationship to the state as “non-modern others.” In order to understand the often contradictory and complex relationship of the Adivasi with the communist-neoliberal state, beyond being the “marginal other,” I mobilize a queer decolonial feminist framework through a process I term queering. I use queering to critically examine and analyze contemporary indigeneity and indigenous resistance in two stages. Firstly, through a broad analysis of the coloniality of development and its material effects on Adivasi lands resulting in land struggles. Secondly, through a narrower focus on gender and sexuality to show how queering is also useful in understanding the operation of particular modalities of power. In doing so, I argue that queering reveals the latent structural complexities of Adivasi indigeneity by drawing causal links between systematic processes of land loss and land alienation, material livelihood, and structural changes in various domains, including gender, sexuality, spirituality, and health. I also argue that emergent and existing modalities of Adivasi resistance, despite the forms they take, are in fact epistemological and ontological acts of decolonial resistance against the combined coloniality of capitalism, development, and moderni… Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 2, (2016), p. 167-204 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/queering-resistance-queering-research-in-search-of-a-queer-decolonial-feminist-understanding-of-adivasi-indigeneity/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11479 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.049doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Mason-Deese, Liz Unemployed Workers’ Movements and the Territory of Social Reproduction /Liz Mason-Deese. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Unemployment soared in Argentina when the country fell into economic crisis in the late 1990s. Amid these dire circumstances, women took the lead in organizing resistance to the neoliberal policies that had caused the crisis, as well as in developing everyday alternative practices that would allow thousands of people to survive the crisis without support from the state. Out of these actions, the unemployed workers’ movements were formed, which became well-known for organizing large roadblocks on major highways across the country and for creating alternative economic practices. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, this paper examines the role of women in the unemployed workers’ movements of the urban periphery in Buenos Aires. It argues that one of the movement’s main achievements was politicizing and making visible issues of social reproduction. The paper shows how organizing around social reproduction involves a new spatiality of struggle—privileging spaces of everyday life in the neighborhood—and a form of politics that prioritizes creating new social relations and increasing democratic control over everyday life. The paper goes on to explore the alternative economic practices and autonomous forms of social reproduction created by the unemployed workers’ movements in the territories in which they operate. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 2, (2016), p. 65-99 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/unemployed-workers-movements-and-the-territory-of-social-reproduction/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11478 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.050doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Koefoed, Minoo Accessing the Backstage: Ethnographic Research Methods in Resistance Studies /Minoo Koefoed. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This article aims to critically discuss particular advantages, disadvantages, and challenges concerning ethnographic research within Resistance Studies. By so doing, four methodological aspects of ethnography will be scrutinized in depth. These are epistemological assumptions referred to as the ethnographic stance, the practice of doing participant observation, the emic-etic distinction, and the emphasis on thick description. Fusing James Scott’s notion of hidden resistance with Erving Goffman’s distinction between the frontstage and backstage of self-presentation, this article suggests that ethnographic research methods could be particularly useful to access backstage spheres, and thereby a useful tool for observing hidden resistance practices. As hidden resistance draws its strength from the virtue of being disguised, ethnographic resistance studies imply ethical challenges particular to Resistance Studies. This is especially relevant in research contexts characterized by high levels of violence and repression. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 2, (2017), p. 19-41 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/ethnographic-research-methods-in-resistance-studies/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11476 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.051doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Martin, Brian Sørensen, Majken Jul Investigating nonviolent action by experimental testing /Brian Martin and Majken Jul Sørensen. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Strategic nonviolent action has developed enormously over the past century: there is a burgeoning body of research, widespread use in social movements, and regular training of activists. Even so, understanding of nonviolent action has been constrained by the methods used to investigate it, for example, case studies and practical experience. The experimental method, as widely used in scientific research, has yet to be applied to the study of nonviolent action in systematic ways. In this article, two possible experiments with nonviolent action are presented to highlight some of the possibilities. Experiments with nonviolent action have the usual rationale of acquiring knowledge and two additional rationales: participant practical understanding and participant willingness to learn from experimentation. There are a number of obstacles to nonviolence experimentation, including lack of funding, ethical challenges, and opposition from various parties. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 2, (2017), p. 42 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/investigating-nonviolent-action-by-experimental-testing/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11474 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.052doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Barter, Shane J. Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh /Shane J. Barter. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance is difficult in the best of times and is especially challenging in authoritarian settings. How does social resistance play out in violent armed conflicts, an extreme non-democratic context? Focusing on two key structural factors, this article suggests that while threat is amplified, political opportunity may be considerable, making wartime social resistance high-stakes but not uncommon. This article explores social resistance against popular rebel forces during the recent secessionist conflict in Aceh, Indonesia. It examines four forms of resistance, varying in their visibility and degree of opposition: engagement, internal, everyday, and defiance. While we must not exaggerate the potential for voice, Aceh’s civilians were able to resist rebel rulers in several ways. This shows that social resistance can blossom even in the most difficult circumstances. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 181-209 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/social-resistance-under-insurgent-rule/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11473 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.053doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Baaz, Mikael Lilja, Mona Vinthagen, Stellan Resistance Studies as an Academic Pursuit /Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja and Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Resistance is both a common and somewhat unusual concept. It appears often in political debates and the media. Members of various non-governmental organizations and social movements also frequently use resistance when they refer to their various activities. In spite of the significant growth regarding the use of resistance during recent years, the discussion about the meaning and content of the concept, the ways resistance activities can be understood, as well as their potential impact, etc., is still rather divided and underdeveloped within academia. Hence, in spite of offering a necessary addition to the earlier focus on ‘power’ within the social sciences, the rapidly growing field of resistance studies is still very much in its infancy. This article is an attempt to introduce some of our main ideas on researching resistance in a systematized and structured fashion. One of the main arguments put forward in the article is that what qualifies as resistance is very much dependent on context, as the aim of various resistance practices also varies very much; so does its different articulations, as well as the ability of various activities to challenge political, legal, economic, social, and cultural structures in society—ultimately to achieve ‘social change’. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 10-28 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resistance-studies-as-an-academic-pursuit/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11472 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.054doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sørensen, Majken Jul Glorifications and Simplifications in Case Studies of Danish WWII Nonviolent Resistance /Majken Jul Sørensen. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Danish resistance to Nazi occupation during WWII is frequently used in literature on civil resistance as an example of how nonviolent resistance has been improvised. Considering the newest historical research, this study has analyzed six English-language texts about Danish resistance written with the explicit purpose of investigating it as nonviolent resistance. Although some of the texts are relatively accurate, others include mistakes and myths, and there is a tendency to glorify the Danes. The majority of the texts are found to simplify a complex reality, especially when it comes to the interactions between sabotage and nonviolence, as well as internal Danish differences. The craving to tell the story of the good Danes against the evil Nazis apparently makes it difficult for the authors to find room for the contradictions, internal power struggles, and less flattering aspects of the resistance. These findings are problematic for the applied field of civil resistance, which aspires to provide research that can be useful for present and future struggles. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 99-137 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/danish-wwii-nonviolent-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11471 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.055doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Smith, Kate Telling Stories of Resistance and Ruination: Women Seeking Asylum /Kate Smith. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This paper examines the relationships between narratives which have come to dominate in the twenty-first century about people seeking asylum and women’s stories of resistance and ruination. Identifying two narratives—the “hate figure” and the “female victim”—I develop understandings about some of the social, legal, and historical contexts in Britain in which these narratives have come to dominate. Drawing on an Economic and Social Research Council funded project with women seeking asylum to explore some of the ways narratives can generate possibilities for some women, this paper also identifies how narratives can be deeply problematic for those who struggle to tell a story. Taking a feminist perspective and narrative approach, four analytical frameworks are used to make sense of how and why women tell their stories, offering a critical theoretical engagement with the concepts of resistance and ruination. The analysis opens up an important space that highlights the importance of narrative forms of resistance and consequently enriches our understanding of the diversity of forms of feminized resistance in the context of the emerging field of resistance studies. In doing so, I also explore how and why women might tell stories of ruination and some of the constraints placed on their stories. I position resistance as necessary for research processes that seek to disrupt and challenge the formation of dominant narratives. I argue for new and different narratives which accommodate some of the complexities and contradictions of women’s lives and open up the possibilities for women to tell their own diverse and different stories. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 2, (2016), p. 33-64 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/telling-stories-of-resistance-and-ruination-women-seeking-asylum/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11470 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.056doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Wasshede, Cathrin Queer Hate and Dirt Rhetoric: An Ambivalent Resistance Strategy /Cathrin Wasshede. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This article examines the queer use of hate and dirt as a form of resistance. Through analysis of a selection of Swedish queer activists’ self-representations on the Internet, the article’s aim is to describe and problematize the queer use of hate and dirt, and point to some ambivalences and risks with this resistance strategy. The three cases selected are situated in the queer activist milieu in Gothenburg, Sweden: The Day of Hetero Hate festival; the Black Rainbow Riot block in the annual Rainbow Walk of the HBTQ Festival; and the music video Cry Alliance Of Our Hatred. Ambivalences and risks in the emotional speech acts of queer activists are analyzed, first by looking at Michael Cobb’s research into religious hate rhetoric as a potent form of queer expression, and Mary Douglas’ discussion of dirt as having creative potential, and then by critically examining the use of hate as resistance. The concept of abjectification, which signifies an active and strategic use of the abject position, is central in the understanding of hate and dirt in this article. The queer use of hate and dirt is found to have at least four purposes: resistance to normalization and assimilation; emotion channeling; construction of a strong ‘we’; and a way to experience pleasure, laughter, and joy. It is also shown how this strategy risks reinstating hate and excluding many people, even queer activists, from the activism/community. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 29-61 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/queer-hate-and-dirt-rhetoric/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11443 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.057doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Von Busch, Otto Resistant Materialities and Power Tools: Dynamics of Power and Resistance in Everyday Consumerism /Otto Von Busch. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In an everyday perspective of resistance, there is a tendency to favor human action and agency, both in the exercise of power or in the acts of resistance. The aim of this study is to examine material agency in everyday power dynamics and to open a methodology of resistance studies in the realm of physical objects, designs, and materials. In correlation to a “new materialist” perspective on power, resistance works to build affinity between humans and nonhuman agency and disrupt materially supported subordination. In this study, a materialist methodology is introduced, with examples of how consumer objects are transformed to interfere with consumer relationships to become tools for cultivating resistant capabilities. As a case, the study examines a handbag made from a cookie box, produced by the Spanish activist “movement” Yomango, where the material properties of the metal box are mobilized to become active in the resistance. From a materialist perspective, the handbag becomes more than a symbolic prop for human-led activists and joins the ranks of co-resistors. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 2, (2017), p. 66-88 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resistant-materialities-and-power-tools/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11442 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.058doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Johansen, Jørgen The development and future of Resistance Studies /Jørgen Johansen. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: One of our goals is to develop and define the field. What shall Resistance Studies focus on? We have conscientiously searched for, and accepted for publication, articles that expand the list of topics which can be analyzed through the lenses of resistance studies. There are, of course, no strict boundaries in this regard, but we would like to see a clearer demarcation of the field without becoming rigid fundamentalists. This is, in fact, one of the most frequent discussions we have in the editorial group: Does this article have enough relevance for resistance studies? Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 5-9 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-development-and-future-of-resistance-studies/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11441 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.059doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Carter, April Mary Elizabeth King: Gandhian Nonviolent Struggle and Untouchability in South India: The 1924-25 Vykom Satyagraha and the Mechanisms of Change /April Carter. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: The Vykom Satyagraha was one of the important campaigns with which Gandhi was associated in the 1920s—and was promoted by the Indian National Congress party. It took place within the broader context of the Indian independence struggle, but was focused on a key issue of justice in Indian society—the discrimination against Dalits (outcasts or untouchables in English translation) within the Hindu caste system. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 1, (2015), p. 161-167 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/gandhian-nonviolent-struggle-and-untouchability-in-south-india-the-1924-25-vykom-satyagraha-and-the-mechanisms-of-change-book-review/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11440 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2016 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.060doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Seppälä, Tiina Something About Love /Tiina Seppälä. Journal of Resistance Studies2016 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: All About Love is, however, much more than a book about personal traumas and individual processes of healing. It is a book that conceptualizes love from a social, political, and collective perspective. Obviously, hooks is not the only scholar who theorizes love in this way – consider, for example, philosophers such as Deleuze and Guattari as well as Hardt and Negri – but she addresses the theme in the framework of patriarchy, developing the concept of love especially in the context of feminist scholarship. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 2, no. 2, (2016), p. 205-210 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/something-about-love/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11439 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.061doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Siachiyako, Clive Mutame von Essen, Erica Ångman, Elin An Exit from the Garbage City: Resistance and “Chikonko” in Zambian Waste Management /Clive Mutame Siachiyako, Erica von Essen and Elin Ångman. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This study examines citizens’ responses to exclusions, injustices, and power asymmetries in the context of public participatory processes in solid waste management within the Mtendere township in Lusaka, Zambia. Interviews and field observations illuminate experiences of disenfranchisement from public spheres and a collection of everyday resistance practices that bear resemblance to one another through their ‘exits’ from these spaces taken by the citizens. We show how, and with what implications, Zambia’s decentralisation policy toward grassroots structures for planning in solid waste management conditions can be understood as a phenomenon of everyday resistance by the citizens of Lusaka. Accounts of citizens’ lived experiences suggest that socio-economic, political affiliation, gender, age, and litigation are often used to exclude them from participatory processes. The role of trust and distrust respectively open and close (sometimes involuntary) exit doors from the public, meaning citizens resist authority through distance. The resulting responses include counterpolitical processes on the part of households to voice displeasure (“chikonko”), such as indiscriminate waste disposal, rumor spreading, and keeping ideas to themselves. The study first represents a case of the everyday—household waste disposal—becoming politicized in the context of a power struggle. Second, it shows a case of spatially conditioned resistance that takes on different properties of communication and public manifestation depending on where it is enacted. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 62-98 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resistance-and-chikonko/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11438 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.062doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Yang, Kefan Resistance or Complicity, Songs of Changkhup: An Ethnographic Approach to Exploring Sipsongpanna Tai Lüe Oral Media in Contemporary China /Kefan Yang. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In contemporary China, many ethnic minority groups such as Tibetans, Mongolians, Miao, and Tai have their own oral cultures, functioning as oral media. Tai Changkhup, for example, verbally disseminate history and culture and transmit information and knowledge among the Tai ethnic minority in the Tai language. In a straightforward sense, these aspects of oral media are people in and of themselves, and can be called singers, poets, or chanters. Tai oral media, therefore, is the Changkhup themselves. Situated in a specific strategy of subaltern resistance, this research aims to explore a softer ‘everyday form of resistance’—oral media resistance through Tai Changkhup, thereby reflecting the asymmetric power relations between the Han Chinese majority and Tai ethnic minority. Taking an ethnographic approach, participant observation and interviewing combined with individual interviews and a focus group are used for data collection. Thematic analysis is primarily used for analyzing data. The findings reveal that Tai oral media functions as a form of cultural resistance against Han cultural hegemony in a subtle and sometimes unconscious way to preserve Tai traditions and identity, wherein the rituality of Changkhup plays a unique role in sustaining the resistance. Essentially, Changkhup resistance is intertwined with complicity, continuously negotiating with hegemonic power and reinforcing Han cultural hegemony as a result. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 138-180 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resistance-or-complicity/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11437 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.063doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Hansen, Christina Doing Fieldwork at ‘Home’: Ethical and Emotional Considerations on the Academic-Activist Relationship /Christina Hansen. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "For researchers employing ethnographic methods like I do, researching activism raises questions about positionality, impact, possible overidentification with the people or groups studied, distinctions between theory and action, and epistemology. The boundaries between research, advocacy, and everyday life are blurred when researchers become heavily involved in the social setting of activist groups (Davis 2003; Petray 2012), and this is why the researcher needs to reflect on the relations between research and activism, and one’s role as a researcher in the field of activism." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 2, (2017), p. 147-156 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/doing-fieldwork-at-home/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11436 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.064doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Rybka, Ryan Traci Brynne Voyles: Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country /Ryan Rybka. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (2015) by Dr. Traci Voyles is an ambitious ethnographic attempt to braid the history of uranium mining on Navajo land (Diné Bikéyah) with settler-colonialism and feminist theory. Voyles traces the origin of uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau in the four-corners region of the Southwestern United States from the late 19th century to the present. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 1, (2018), p. 145-149 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/voyles-wastelanding-legacies/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11435 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.065doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Juarez, Vanessa Miranda- Shannon Speed: Rights in rebellion. Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas /Vanessa Miranda- Juarez. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: This book is an excellent ethnographic investigation of the conflation of different traditions of discourses of human rights in Chiapas, with a focus on the innovative ways in which the Zapatista movement has implemented these traditions in their struggle for autonomy and liberation. From an activist point of view, Speed adopts a decolonial perspective to create an anthropology that advances the critical investigation of topics such as human rights, social movements, and indigenous resistance. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 1, (2018), p. 136-144 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/shannon-speed-rights-in-rebellion/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11378 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.066doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Freeman-Woolpert, Sarah Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Trough Radical Resistance /Sarah Freeman-Woolpert. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of the book by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Trough Radical Resistance Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 1, (2018), p. 134-136 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/betasamosake-simpson-as-we-have-always-done/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11377 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.067doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Chabot, Sean A message from your new book review editor /Sean Chabot. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 1, (2018), p. 133-152 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/a-message-from-your-new-book-review-editor/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11376 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.068doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Brown, Craig S. Riots during the 2010/11 Tunisian Revolution: A Response to Case’s Article in JRS Vol.4 Number 1 /Craig S. Brown. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Case’s (2018) analysis of unarmed violence during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution has advanced the argument for evaluating unarmed political violence within the context of civilian resistance movements. This response builds on that by referencing interview data from participants in the 2010/11 Tunisian Revolution, who described using both nonviolent and violent tactics. Applying these findings to Case’s criteria of mobilization, resilience, and leverage—derived from Schock (2013)—the Tunisian case reinforces Case’s conclusions. However, it also emphasizes the limitations of reducing nonviolence analysis to pragmatic or strategic components when compared to violent methods. This is particularly significant in light of the constructive efforts in Tunisia to establish alternative political and economic structures, which were tied to what interviewees termed "aspirational nonviolence." They pursued goals rooted in dignity, suggesting a broader conceptualization of nonviolent action beyond mere strategy. While Case’s broader approach to civilian resistance, which includes unarmed political violence, is analytically sound, it’s important to recognize the scope for further exploration and application of enhanced nonviolent methods. This involves deeper engagement with moral considerations about political and economic organization, as well as the pursuit of nonviolent social revolutions. Read Benjamin S. Case's article Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 2, (2018), p. 112-131 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/response-to-cases-article/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11375 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.069doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Schulz, Michael Darweish, Marwan & Andrew Rigby: Popular Protest in Palestine: The uncertain future of unarmed resistance /Michael Schulz. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: Darweish and Rigby's book Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance (2015) provides a valuable contribution to the study of Palestinian resistance under Israeli occupation. By focusing on unarmed resistance, the book addresses an under-researched area within conflict studies and popular protest movements. It offers both empirical and theoretical insights into why this form of resistance has struggled to produce meaningful impact in terms of conflict transformation. The case study examines the difficulties Palestinian popular resistance has faced in achieving its goals, particularly in the context of a protracted conflict with a powerful state. The authors explore the internal and external challenges that have limited the effectiveness of these movements, including the dynamics of occupation, international politics, and the socio-political environment. Their analysis enriches our understanding of the complexities involved in mobilizing nonviolent resistance within such a deeply entrenched conflict, providing a nuanced perspective on the limitations and potential of unarmed protest in Palestine. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 2, (2015), p. 168-178 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/popular-protest-in-palestine/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11374 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.070doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Lilja, Eva Lilja, Mona Linguistic Resistance: Establishing, Maintaining and Resisting Truths /Eva Lilja and Mona Lilja. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This paper explores how activists—particularly those focused on human rights, gender, and environmental issues—utilize repetition as a communicative strategy to challenge and transform discourses. It contributes to the broader research on meaning-making by examining the role of repetitive patterns in shaping and resisting political norms. Drawing from linguistic theories, the paper identifies four distinct patterns of repetition that activists can use to establish, maintain, or resist prevailing political "truths." These patterns are applied across various forms of communication, including words, images, and sounds, to negotiate the boundaries and content of contemporary discourses. The study positions repetition as a form of linguistic activism, whereby repeated representations—whether symbolic or material—can transform societal values. By analyzing how repetition functions in conversations and media, the paper argues that this practice is a powerful tool for dissent. The findings respond to the calls of critical sociologists to prioritize the well-being of society in current research, offering new insights into how activists might influence dominant discourses through persistent and strategic communication. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 1, (2018), p. 72-98 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/linguistic-resistance-establishing-maintaining-and-resisting-truths/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11373 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.071doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Darweish, Marwan Rigby, Andrew The internationalisation of nonviolent resistance the case of the BDS campaign /Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This paper analyzes the factors that contribute to the success of international civil society solidarity networks, using the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a case study and comparing it to the global anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s and 1980s. The paper identifies three key differences between the two movements: Internal Factors: These relate to the organizational structure and membership of the anti-apartheid movement, which had a more cohesive and broad-based foundation compared to the BDS campaign. Ideational Factors: These involve the level of legitimacy enjoyed by the anti-apartheid movement, which was influenced by its ability to garner widespread international support and moral backing. Contextual Factors: These refer to the socio-political and economic environments within which the anti-apartheid movement operated, which were more conducive to international action due to the global consensus against apartheid in South Africa. The paper concludes that the success of the anti-apartheid sanctions was rooted in the synergy between local resistance and the global solidarity movement. For the BDS movement to achieve similar impact, it is crucial that both local and international resistance against the Israeli occupation remain strong and interconnected. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 1, (2018), p. 45-71 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-internationalisation-of-nonviolent-resistance-the-case-of-the-bds-campaign/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11372 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.072doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Case, Benjamin S. Riots as Civil Resistance Rethinking the Dynamics of ‘Nonviolent’ Struggle /Benjamin S. Case. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This paper challenges the conventional dichotomy between violence and nonviolence in civil resistance studies, arguing for a more nuanced understanding of violent actions within social movements. While civil resistance research has emphasized the strategic effectiveness of nonviolent campaigns, this analysis points out that the distinction between violent and nonviolent tactics is often oversimplified, failing to capture the full range of actions used by movements. The paper suggests that unarmed collective violence, such as riots, frequently coexists with nonviolent actions in civilian-led movements. These forms of violence can be examined using similar frameworks to those applied to nonviolent resistance. By utilizing data on contentious political actions, the paper shows that riots and other forms of collective violence often occur alongside nonviolent civil resistance, as exemplified by the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Ultimately, the paper argues for expanding the scope of civil resistance studies to include a broader repertoire of tactics, moving beyond the strict violence/nonviolence binary. This approach would allow for a more accurate analysis of social movements, recognizing that diverse and interwoven tactics are often employed in pursuit of political goals. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 1, (2018), p. 9-44 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/riots-as-civil-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11371 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.073doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Allan, Joanna Activist Ethics: the Need for a Nuanced Approach to Resistance Studies Field Research /Joanna Allan. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This paper addresses a significant gap in the literature by exploring the ethical challenges faced by researchers working with resistance activists in conflict zones, using the case study of Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. It argues that fieldwork in such environments presents unique ethical dilemmas that traditional academic frameworks may be ill-equipped to handle. The paper suggests that to ensure the continued growth of Resistance Studies, scholars and institutions must rethink these frameworks, sometimes necessitating the subversion of conventional ethical norms. Two key arguments are presented: First, conducting research among resistance activists requires a nuanced, politically informed approach to ethics, acknowledging the complexities of authoritarian resistance. Second, the paper asserts that researchers must adopt an activist stance to ethically navigate these challenges, suggesting that passive observation is insufficient. Instead, active participation in the resistance is necessary, as it provides the only ethical response to the power dynamics at play. Ultimately, the paper calls for an activist-driven ethical framework in the study of resistance movements. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 2, (2017), p. 89-121 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/activist-ethics-the-need-for-a-nuanced-approach-to-resistance-studies-field-research/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11369 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.074doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Urbano, Massimiliana Social Movements and Resistance Studies in Neoliberal Times /Massimiliana Urbano. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This article addresses the challenges that resistance and social movement studies face within the framework of neoliberal academia, specifically focusing on the role of ethics review committees. It argues that current ethics guidelines, shaped by a neoliberal approach, can hinder participatory action research, which is essential for socially engaged scholarship. The institutional focus on ethical "principlism" often limits the scope of inquiry, potentially silencing critical research that seeks to challenge societal structures. Furthermore, the article suggests that as universities increasingly operate within a corporate logic, ethics committees contribute to the individualization and governance of academics, reinforcing neoliberal norms. This, in turn, has significant implications for how resistance and social movements are studied and engaged with in academic contexts. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 2, (2017), p. 122-136 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/social-movements-and-resistance-studies-in-neoliberal-times/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11368 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.075doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Johnson, Matthew W. Dawson Barrett: The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America /Matthew W. Johnson. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Dawson Barrett provides a detailed and engaging account of a lesser-known but significant period in U.S. protest movements in his work. While many remember the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s, as well as the Women’s and Black Power movements of the 1970s, Barrett highlights that large-scale activism continued well beyond the late 70s. His exploration sheds light on the evolution of protest movements in subsequent decades, illustrating how activism adapted to new challenges and contexts, and emphasizing the ongoing struggle for social justice and change in America. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 2, (2018), p. 154-156 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/barrett-the-defiant-protest-movements/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11367 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.076doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Johnson, Matthew W. Arlie Russell Hochschild: Strangers in Their Own Land /Matthew W. Johnson. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: In Strangers in Their Own Land, acclaimed sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild offers a nuanced exploration of Red State America, focusing on the bayous of Louisiana during the latter half of the Obama administration. While the book may be limited in geographic scope, it excels in depth as it seeks to address fundamental questions that political elites on the Left often ponder about their southern, rural counterparts. Hochschild investigates why these individuals might vote for policies that appear to go against their own interests, a phenomenon she refers to as the "Great Paradox." Through her intimate portraits and interviews, she aims to foster understanding and bridge the cultural divide between different political ideologies. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 2, (2018), p. 152-153 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/strangers-in-their-own-land/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11366 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.077doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sørensen, Majken Jul Lester R. Kurtz and Lee A. Smithey, ed. The paradox of repression and nonviolent movements /Majken Jul Sørensen. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: The stated goal of The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements, edited by Lester R. Kurtz and Lee A. Smithey, is to examine the factors that enable mobilization despite repression. The book aims to bridge the gap between academic discourse and practical insights for movement participants, and it succeeds in this ambition. With twelve chapters, it offers valuable perspectives and analyses that cater to both scholars and activists, providing insights into how nonviolent movements can thrive even under oppressive conditions. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 2, (2018), p. 149-152 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-paradox-of-repression-and-nonviolent-movements/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11364 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.078doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Freeman-Woolpert, Sarah Kevin Van Meter: Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible /Sarah Freeman-Woolpert. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: Kevin Van Meter’s Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible is a thoroughly researched and engaging exploration of how everyday acts of resistance contribute to revolutionary movements. Van Meter focuses on two key areas: refusals of work and mutual aid practices, tracing these forms of resistance from the era of slavery through industrialization. By examining these everyday actions, Van Meter argues that they play a crucial role in shaping broader revolutionary possibilities, demonstrating that resistance is not always large-scale but often grounded in small, seemingly ordinary acts. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 2, (2018), p. 140-142 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/van-meter-guerrillas-of-desire/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11363 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.079doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Martinsson, Lena Lilja, Mona Johansson, Anna Judith Butler: Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly /Lena Martinsson, Mona Lilja and Anna Johansson. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: Judith Butler, a renowned feminist scholar, is widely recognized for her significant contributions to gender, sexuality, and queer theory. In her book Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (2015), Butler examines the dynamics of public assemblies in an era marked by increasing precarity under neoliberal governance. Building on her earlier work on the body and performativity, Butler explores how bodies gather in public spaces as acts of resistance, focusing on how physical presence in assemblies creates a powerful form of political expression and collective resistance. Through this lens, she links her previous work on embodiment to contemporary social movements. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 2, (2018), p. 132-139 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/judith-butler-notes-toward-a-performative-theory/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11362 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2015 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.080doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Meyer, Matt Narayan Desai: A Blissful Life of Total Revolution /Matt Meyer. Journal of Resistance Studies2015 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier The passing of Gandhian educator Narayan Desai on March 15, 2015, marked the end of an era. Desai, who grew up in the presence of Mahatma Gandhi, was the last of a generation deeply influenced by the iconic leader. As the son of Mahadev Desai, Gandhi's personal secretary and close confidant, Narayan Desai was raised in the Ashrams at Sabarmati, Ahmedabad, and Sevagram. He frequently reflected on his childhood, sharing stories of his experiences as a student under the guidance of India's founding father. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 1, no. 1, (2015), p. 154-163 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/narayan-desai-a-blissful-life/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11335 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.081doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Johansson, Anna Lilja, Mona Martinsson, Lena The Materiality of Resistance: Resistance of Cultural-Material Artefacts and Bodies /Anna Johansson, Mona Lilja and Lena Martinsson. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: This editorial, and the collection of articles in this issue, provides new insights into the knowledge that a focus on materiality can offer us, particularly with respect to various resisting conducts and political subjectivities. For the purpose of our argument, we have identified three major trajectories in the scholarly literature—new materialism, resistance studies, and feminist/queer studies—which together contribute to a more elaborated view of political struggle. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 2, (2018), p. 5-16 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-materiality-of-resistance-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11334 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.082doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Koefoed, Minoo When Doing Ethnography with Armed Movements: Participation, Rapport, Resistance – And Ethics /Minoo Koefoed. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In this text I discuss ethical challenges concerning ethnographic fieldworks and participant observation in resistance movements with armed branches. By so doing, my point of departure will be my own ethnographic fieldwork with the Kurdish movement in Turkey’s Southeast that I conducted between May 2015 and January 2016. More precisely, I will discuss a particular instance when I was asked to participate in an unofficial weapon production workshop with militant youth activists in an autonomous Kurdish neighborhood. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 2, (2018), p. 137-146 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/when-doing-ethnography-with-armed-movements/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11333 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.083doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2014) Land and Freedom: The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Land and Freedom is a unique comparison done in a systematic and theoretically-advanced way. It compares MST and the Zapatistas along a number of key themes, such as their socio-economic situations, strategies, gender transformation, relationship to land, and alternative institution-building. The study builds on its own empirical fieldwork data, as well as an interrogation of much of the existing literature. The voices of the activists are present and illustrate the analysis throughout the book in a way that builds confidence. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 239-244 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/vergara-camus-land-and-freedom/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11332 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.084doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan Knapp, Michael, Anja Flach and Ercan Ayboga (2016) Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: Revolution in Rojava is a unique book that empirically documents and describes many aspects of the revolutionary process in the Kurdish areas of northern Syria (“Western Kurdistan”) which has evolved since the summer of 2012. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 233-238 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/revolution-in-rojava/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11331 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.085doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan Butler, Judith, Zeynep Gambetti, and Leticia Sabsay (eds.) Vulnerability in Resistance - Book review /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "Vulnerability in Resistance is an edited book emanating from a workshop in Istanbul 2013 – ‘Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance: Feminism and Social Change’ – that collects a broad range of themes, contexts, and theoretical approaches to ‘vulnerability’ and ‘resistance’. It assists us all in radically rethinking the connections between ‘vulnerability’ and ‘resistance’. The chapters cover themes as varied as agonism, resilience, temporality, barricades, dreams, art, Palestine, feminism, violence against women, veils and masks, and permeable bodies." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 228-232 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/vulnerability-in-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11330 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.086doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan Scott, James C. (2013) Decoding Subaltern Politics: Ideology, disguise, and resistance in agrarian politics /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In this short book, the founder of the concept "everyday resistance," James C. Scott, professor of political science at Yale University, summarizes his understanding of "everyday resistance" and its relation to "the little tradition" of peasants, ultimately the conflict between the state and "the vernacular world." It is a collection of texts that has never been published in book form before. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 224-227 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/james-c-scott-decoding-subaltern-politics/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11329 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.087doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan Clover, Joshua: Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In this book, the scholar-poet Joshua Clover is making a historical overview of the “riot,” from its “Golden Age” sometime in the 17th and 18th centuries, to its renewed popularity in our global age. In this historization of riots, Clover makes contemporary connections with the “movement of the squares” (2010-2011), including Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Oakland, the riots in Ferguson, and the rise of the Movement for Black Lives. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 221-223 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/clover-joshua-riot-strike-riot/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11328 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.088doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Wilén, Evelina Johansson Wilén, Carl Resistance, Materiality and the Spectre of Cartesianism: A Contribution to the Critique of Feminist New Materialism /Evelina Johansson Wilén and Carl Wilén. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier An important camp within the emerging field of resistance studies has been characterized by a tendency to study and theorize matters of culture, language, and discourse at the expense of matter itself. For researchers interested in feminist resistance, feminist new materialism—with its focus on the entanglements of ‘natureculture,’ matter, the body, sexual difference, agency, and change—might appear to offer productive theoretical tools that can help shift the focus towards materiality. Through a reading of selected works of influential feminist new materialists, this article critically analyzes how resistance can be articulated within the theoretical scope of feminist new materialism. While the authors agree with the identified gains of a material turn within resistance studies and in relation to feminist resistance, it is shown that new materialism is of little help in this regard. In a first step, it is argued that the new materialist attempt to undermine the modern and postmodern forms of Cartesian dualism ends up reproducing its fundamental premise through the equation of difference and independence on the one hand, and of identity and unity on the other. In a second step, the authors argue that the failed attempt to challenge Cartesian dualism gives rise to two theoretical problems with important implications for feminist resistance. On the one hand, in its efforts to transcend older versions of materiality as unalterable and constant, feminist new materialism comes to privilege change and the register of historical specificity at the expense of limits and the register of the transhistorical, in a way that disguises resistance rooted in the relatively stable condition of vulnerability. On the other hand, in its attempt to supersede the difference between nature a… Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 2, (2018), p. 54-83 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resistance-materiality-and-the-spectre-of-cartesianism-a-contribution-to-the-critique-of-feminist-new-materialism/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11327 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.089doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Lilja, Mona Martinsson, Lena Travelling Artefacts: The Role of Recognition, Belongings and Acts of Resistance /Mona Lilja and Lena Martinsson. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This paper, by using manga comics and the veil as examples, argues that increased scholarly attention to artifacts involved in political struggles could add new insights to previous research on resistance and social change. The paper examines how the recognition of artifacts is entwined with different expressions and techniques of power and resistance. These artifacts, which are recognizable around the globe, acquire different meanings and become part of (or are excluded from) particular political struggles and communities of belonging, both transnationally and locally. Power and political struggles are both interwoven with material contexts and sometimes revolve around different artifacts. Artifacts become affective parts of resistance and mobilize people into assuming or rejecting communities, identity positions, or subjectivities. The shifting discursive materialities of different artifacts make these items transformative and important factors in political struggles. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 2, (2018), p. 84-111 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/travelling-artefacts/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11326 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.090doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Martin, Brian Mark Hertsgaard: Bravehearts: Whistle-blowing in the Age of Snowden /Brian Martin. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "Snowden’s saga has inspired numerous accounts, among them Mark Hertsgaard’s book Bravehearts. Hertsgaard, a journalist, undertook numerous interviews with key figures concerning Snowden’s disclosures. One of Hertsgaard’s important stories is about Tomas Drake, like Snowden an NSA whistleblower. Drake followed the official procedures for reporting his concerns about computer security within the NSA and, as a result, was arrested and threatened with a lengthy prison sentence. Snowden learned from Drake’s experience: reporting problems internally was probably not going to be effective." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 195-197 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/mark-hertsgaard-bravehearts-whistle-blowing-in-the-age-of-snowden-book-review/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11325 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.091doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Khalif, Asma S. M. Farid Mirbagheri: War and Peace in Islam; a critique of Islamic/ist Political discourses /Asma Khalif. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Book review of S. M. Farid Mirbagheri: War and Peace in Islam; a critique of Islamic/ist Political discourses Palgrave MacMillan, 2012 Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 194-195 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/s-m-farid-mirbagheri-war-and-peace-in-islam-a-critique-of-islamic-ist-political-discourses-book-review/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11324 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.092doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Freeman-Woolpert, Sarah Sarah Van Gelder: The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000- Mile Journey through a New America /Sarah Freeman-Woolpert. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: From Montana to Kentucky, Detroit to Newark, The Revolution Where You Live explores how local resistance campaigns have been led by a range of actors, from ranchers to indigenous leadership councils, seeking to combat issues like coal mining, racial injustice, and worker exploitation. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 191-191 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-revolution-where-you-live/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11323 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.093doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Freeman-Woolpert, Sarah M.S. Wallace: Security Without Weapons: Rethinking Violence, Nonviolent Action, and Civilian Protection /Sarah Freeman-Woolpert. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In Security Without Weapons: Rethinking Violence, Nonviolent Action, and Civilian Protection, M.S. Wallace conducts a thorough and intriguing examination of how nonviolent intervention can disrupt or prevent violent conflict. The book places particular empirical focus on the role discourse and moral frameworks play in the perpetration of violent conflict, compelling readers to rethink constructed categories of evil villains waging violence against innocent perpetrators. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 186-191 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/wallace-security-without-weapons/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11322 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.094doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Martin, Brian Dustin Ells Howes: Freedom Without Violence: Resisting the Western Political Tradition /Brian Martin. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "For answers, Freedom Without Violence by Dustin Ells Howes is an essential source. Howes, a political scientist, examines ideas about freedom and violence from the ancient Greeks onwards. His study is a fascinating and challenging journey through the history of ideas. One of the surprises is that the strong linkage between violence and freedom is relatively new. However, to establish this involves careful analysis." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 180-185 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/howes-freedom-without-violence/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11321 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.095doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Bayer, Markus Stellan Vinthagen: A Theory of Nonviolent Action – How Civil Resistance Works /Markus Bayer. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "For over 40 years, Gene Sharp’s seminal work on “The Politics of Nonviolent Action” has built the theoretical basis for nonviolent action and civil resistance scholars. Two years ago, in 2015, Stellan Vinthagen published “Theory of Nonviolent Action” with the aim to “develop a conceptual framework and a new theoretical framework of what ‘nonviolence’ is” (page 3)." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 171-180 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/a-theory-of-nonviolent-action/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11320 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2017 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.096doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Freeman-Woolpert, Sarah The Tea Party Warrior’s Field Manual /Sarah Freeman-Woolpert. Journal of Resistance Studies2017 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: In this review, I examine the online “Tea Party Warrior’s Field Manual” as a guide for conservative activists to mount nonviolent action for social change. As Gene Sharp writes in How Nonviolent Struggle Works, “Whatever the issue and whatever the scale of the conflict, nonviolent action is a technique by which people who reject passivity and submission, and who see struggle as essential, can wager their conflict without violence.” This review highlights the ways in which the Tea Party’s Field Manual can broaden our understanding of conservative resistance, while also criticizing aspects of the Manual that I find most inconsistent with the principles of nonviolence. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 3, no. 1, (2017), p. 165-169 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-tea-party-warriors-field-manual-book-review/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11319 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.097doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Wilson Becerril, Michael S. Mining Conflicts in Peru Civil Resistance and Corporate Counterinsurgency /Michael S. Wilson Becerril. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Studies of protest have argued that repression “backfires”—it activates indignation and galvanizes resistance. However, most activists know that this is not always the case. When does repression actually expand the ranks of social movements, granting them the “critical mass” needed to pressure authorities and win concessions, and when does it not? This paper distinguishes between private and public forms of repression and argues that behind-the-scenes, targeted repression by private actors is much less likely to backfire. Ethnographic and comparative research of mining conflicts in Peru uncovers how mining corporations marshal the state’s coercive apparatus as well as private intelligence, security, and media into a type of corporate counterinsurgency operations. Overtly and covertly, these work to delegitimize, intimidate, and demobilize opponents, with direct effects on the capacities and strategies of resistance. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 1, (2018), p. 99-132 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/mining-conflicts-in-peru/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11318 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.098doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Johansen, Jörgen Vinthagen, Stellan What we (do not) want to publish in the Journal of Resistance Studies /Jörgen Johansen and Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Entering the fifth year of publishing JRS, we can look back at a number of articles on a wide variety of topics within resistance studies. The interest is growing, and the field of resistance studies has expanded. From the editorial side, we have encouraged authors to describe, analyze, and build theories of resistance in new areas of the complexity of human power relations. The history of resistance studies has moved from a focus on more or less organized social movements to new areas of resistance. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 1, (2019), p. 5-10 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/what-we-do-not-want-to-publish-in-the-journal-of-resistance-studies/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11317 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.099doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Chabot, Sean Can Resistance Scholars Hear the Subaltern Speak? /Sean Chabot. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: How should we, as resistance scholars, interpret and respond to public speech by subaltern subjects like Fannie Lou Hamer, subjects who generally lack discursive access, lines of social mobility, and political influence (Spivak, 1988; Morris, 2010; Guha, 1982-1999)? Our most common response is to focus on whether and how they contribute to contentious politics (Tilly and Tarrow 2006). Do the words of subaltern resisters increase the capacity of protest groups and social movements for mass mobilization and public persuasion, or not? Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 1, (2019), p. 11-33 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/can-resistance-scholars-hear-the-subaltern-speak/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11316 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.100doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Alvinius, Aida Holmberg, Arita Johansson, Eva Do military leaders resist organizational challenges? /Aida Alvinius, Arita Holmberg and Eva Johansson. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Armed forces in many Western countries have been facing societal change processes for more than twenty years, including value changes, government savings, and more recently, an unstable security environment. The starting point here is that there is a relationship between processes of societal change and organizational challenges. The purpose of this study is to examine how military leaders manage and respond to different kinds of organizational challenges, focusing on resistance. The empirical material was collected using a grounded theory approach. Informants possessing wide experience of leadership participated in this study. The qualitative analysis describes the coping strategies, acceptance, and resistance found among military leaders when dealing with organizational demands. Challenges caused by societal changes are experienced as negative aspects of organizational structure. This may be an explanation for why military leaders cope with them by applying both resistance and acceptance. However, our main conclusion is that resistance to change stays within a culture of obedience. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 1, (2019), p. 34-60 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/do-military-leaders-resist-organizational-challenges/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11315 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.101doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Johansson, Anna The Rainbow Flag as Part of the ‘Apartheid Wall’ Assemblage: Materiality, (In)Visibility and Resistance /Anna Johansson. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This paper explores the case of a mural, Through the Spectrum, painted with the colors of the rainbow flag in 2015 by the Palestinian visual artist Khaled Jarrar on a section of the 'Apartheid Wall' separating Israel from the Palestinian territories. Through attending to the materiality of the assemblage of the Wall, with the mural of the rainbow flag as one element, the paper investigates the production of resistance. The paper demonstrates how the resistance against the visual politics of Israeli occupation also involves and becomes intertwined with the politics of visibility practiced by the globalized LGBTIQ community. Moreover, it also focuses on how this resistance, through its materiality, in some ways challenges the visual field of occupation. It is argued that the materiality of the Wall, in conjunction with the mural, human actors, and discourses, makes possible and contributes to producing one expression of the Palestinian resistance of sumūd, steadfastness. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 1, (2019), p. 61 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-rainbow-flag-as-part-of-the-apartheid-wall/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11314 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.102doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Davies, Simon Saul Alinsky: Rules for Radicals /Simon Davies. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier I was fourteen years of age when I first encountered Saul Alinsky’s inspiring and timeless work Rules for Radicals. All those decades ago—angry and confused—I was ploughing through a turbulent puberty, vowing to cause havoc to a school system that was harsh and prescriptive. Alinsky’s book became my bedrock and was the gateway to a subsequent life of activism. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 1, (2019), p. 95-101 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/saul-alinsky-rules-for-radicals-book-review/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11313 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.103doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vaishali Ramnarayan S. Rawat: Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India /Vaishali. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: In Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India, the historian Ramnarayan Rawat rewrites the history of Chamars, an untouchable community in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The book has two major parts. In the first part, Rawat sets out to question the political economy imposed on Dalits. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 1, (2019), p. 115-121 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/reconsidering-untouchability/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11312 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.104doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Rybka, Ryan Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance /Ryan Rybka. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (2017) by Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a Nishnaabeg scholar, is a critically engaging reflexive “manifesto” that seeks to highlight the realities of contemporary Nishnaabeg life. Simpson’s central tenet is a call to action around indigenous nationhood, which she describes as “a radical and complete overturning of the nation-state’s political formations” (10). Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 1, (2019), p. 109-115 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/leanne-betasamosake-simpson-as-we-have-always-done/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11310 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.105doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Roy, Nalanda Alf Gunvald Nilsen: Dispossession and Resistance in India /Nalanda Roy. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier The book Dispossession and Resistance in India, by Alf Gunvald Nilsen, is an engaging and endearing account of an important social movement that is rich both theoretically and empirically. The book deals with the controversial issue of building large dams in the name of development, and the Narmada Valley project in India narrates a story of oppressed communities and their zeal to overcome such atrocities. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 1, (2019), p. 107-109 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/alf-gunvald-nilsen-dispossession-and-resistance-in-india-book-review/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11309 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.106doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Johnson, Matthew Micah White: The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution /Matthew Johnson. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: Micah White, part scholar and part military strategist, has written a remarkable book challenging many ineffectual orthodoxies among (predominately leftist) protesters. He does this through careful and precise analysis of history, his own experiences, and the milieu of the Information Age. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 1, (2019), p. 105-106 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/micah-white-the-end-of-protest/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11307 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.107doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Freeman-Woolpert, Sarah L.A. Kaufman: How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance /Sarah Freeman-Woolpert. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "On a freezing January morning, I joined a group of activists and organizers to distribute fictional copies of the Washington Post in front of the White House. Leading our group was activist and organizer L.A. Kaufman, an experienced historian and participant of radical protest in the United States." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 1, (2019), p. 102-104 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/l-a-kaufman-how-to-read-a-protest/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11306 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.108doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Morimoto, Shauna A. Cascante, Diana RESIST: Examining Black Lives Matter in the Changing Landscape of Social Trust /Shauna A. Morimoto and Diana Cascante. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier #BlackLivesMatter represents a quintessential example of digital resistance. The tenets of democratic change, however, rely on building social capital and social trust to sustain democratic action. This article, therefore, examines whether and how social trust is built through an online resistance movement. Using qualitative interview data pertaining to Black Lives Matter, we consider whether the bonds of social trust and social capital so central to face-to-face social movement are also fostered through online mobilization. Moreover, we examine how movement leadership and participants establish the trust that is sufficient for successful resistance. We find that individuals involved in BLM use social media as a resource to share factual events, and they trust social media because it lacks the modifications that occur through traditional media. At the same time, however, they invest in fact-checking and research as part of their resistance activism. The result is the growth of a form of networked social trust that exists over a virtual civic sphere. Accordingly, social media are tools to make local issues global, build trust, connect people, and bring about progressive social attitudes and social activism. We discuss the implications of these findings with regard to social media as a forum for resistance and democratic action more generally. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 2, (2019), p. 12-36 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resist-examining-black-lives-matter/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11305 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.109doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda DeAtley, Tyler Mobile Ambivalence at Standing Rock: surveillance, antagonism, and mobility at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests /Tyler DeAtley. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier The protests surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline were marked by ambivalence, both in the blurring of protest spaces and in the interactions in digital spaces surrounding the protest. The Facebook check-in meme that began circulating on Halloween 2016 was a key site for the ambivalence of the protests. The meme prompted sympathizers to sign in to Standing Rock through the locational Facebook check-in feature to jam police surveillance. The meme capitalized on the hybridized nature of the protest spaces in an attempt to create safety for the physical protesters. However, the meme amplified attention paid to the protests, leading to trolls wandering into the digital spaces of the protest. Protesters and trolls engaged in mutual surveillance, doxxing, and other antagonisms. I argue that the Facebook Check-in meme constitutes a useful site of digital activism that is effective through its use of the messiness of hybrid spaces and tactical engagement, and one that also exemplifies the potential of tactical media in hybrid space to oppose power structures of surveillance. However, the discourse and actions surrounding the protest highlight the ambivalence of digital political activism coming from multiple coalitions. The focus on the intersections of ambivalence, hybridized space, and tactical engagement provides a fruitful lens not present in the literature of digital political protest. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 2, (2019), p. 37-67 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/mobile-ambivalence-at-standing-rock/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11304 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.110doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Madison, Nora Klang, Mathias Recognizing Everyday Activism: Understanding Resistance to Facial Recognition /Nora Madison and Mathias Klang. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier The widespread implementation of facial recognition systems as a tool for live surveillance is challenging the ability of individuals to be anonymous in public, and through this, addressing the level of privacy one has the right to expect in a public space. Among those attempting to draw attention to this discussion is a group of artists and designers, whose contribution involves the creation of anti-surveillance practices and artefacts. Given that these have been viewed as ingenious and often entertaining, but hardly as viable solutions to surveillance, it may be tempting to ignore them as failed resistance. This, however, would miss the importance of, and contribution to, the larger discussion on everyday resistance and activism. This paper argues that these systems are examples of surveillance resistance, that their role is to form part of an online discourse on surveillance and as such become a form of digital resistance. Furthermore, this paper argues that through the form and nature of their contribution, they have the ability to further nuance the discussion of resistance in that they become an example of everyday activism. By recognizing their true contribution, we may move beyond mere trivialization of these anti-surveillance artefacts to be able to study digital resistance. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 2, (2019), p. 97-113 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/recognizing-everyday-activism-understanding-resistance-to-facial-recognition/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11303 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.111doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Torres, Guillén Institutional resistance to transparency: the quest for Public Sector Information in Mexico /Guillén Torres. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Despite the popularization of progressive Freedom of Information and Open Data policies, both transparency practitioners and academia have warned about an increase in attempts to control and reduce the information that flows from the state to citizens. Within the literature dedicated to investigating this phenomenon, the notion of resistance to transparency has been used often to characterize instances of problematic governmental information control. However, within this body of research, the concept of resistance has been stripped of its contentious elements and treated as a synonym of reluctance, unwillingness, or foot-dragging, rather than a category with an inherent political dimension. As a result, what is institutional resistance to transparency and what are its political consequences remains vague. Drawing from the theoretical toolbox of the fields of Resistance Studies and Science and Technology Studies, this paper explores the politics of institutional resistance to transparency through a case study of Mexican information activists. By focusing on activists’ experiences, I suggest that institutional resistance originates in how transparency mechanisms allow some citizens to make the state more legible, controllable, and accountable. Furthermore, I argue that institutional resistance is carried out mostly through everyday, subtle, seemingly non-political strategies implemented by the state’s institutions, which reduce citizens’ ability to produce and/or process data regarding governmental action. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 2, (2019), p. 68-96 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/institutional-resistance-to-transparency/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11301 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.112doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Brown, Craig S. Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game /Craig S. Brown. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of the boardgame: Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game Excerpt: : "As a boardgame for up to 4 players focusing on the tactics of urban resistance, Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game is a rather novel offering. ‘Insurrection’ has some specific definitional use in Marxist and Bolshevik theory, broadly as a mass-based proletariat uprising organized and directed by the party of the proletariat (Lenin, 1972, p.22), while it has been used in relation to resistance against global neoliberal capitalism (Danaher & Mark, 2003) and nonviolent resistance (see Zunes, 1994)." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 2, (2019), p. 139-143 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/bloc-by-bloc-the-insurrection-game-media-review/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11300 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.113doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Huaqui, Anthony Chandra Russo: Solidarity in Practice: Moral Protest and the US Security State /Anthony Huaqui. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: Slidarity in Practice: Moral Protest and the US Security State by Chandra Russo (2018) examines the practice of “bearing witness” as an act of resistance to state violence and forging solidarity with the targets of state violence. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 2, (2019), p. 136-139 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/chandra-russo-solidarity-in-practice/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11299 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.114doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Kumar, Arvind Gaurav J. Pathania: The University as a Site of Resistance: Identity and Student Politics /Arvind Kumar. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This book is an ethnographic study of the movement for the formation of Telangana state in India. This movement began right at the dawn of India’s independence in 1947 but went through a series of ups and downs before becoming the 29th state of India in 2014. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 2, (2019), p. 132-136 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/pathania-the-university-as-a-site-of-resistance-book-review/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11298 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.115doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Huaqui, Anthony Roy, Nalanda Pedron, Stephanie Mae Todd May: Nonviolent Resistance: A Philosophical Introduction /Anthony Huaqui, Nalanda Roy and Stephanie Mae Pedron. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Two reviews of the book by Todd May: Nonviolent Resistance: A Philosophical Introduction (2015) Excerpt: "Todd May’s Nonviolent Resistance: A Philosophical Introduction (2015) is a welcomed theoretical analysis of nonviolent action from a philosophical perspective, as well as a worthy inclusion to the resistance studies literature. May’s book shines an important philosophical light on nonviolence, its central dynamics, values of nonviolence, and even its historical lineage." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 2, (2019), p. 126-132 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/todd-may-nonviolent-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11296 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2019 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.116doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Weber, Thomas Gandhi the Organiser: How he shaped a nationwide rebellion: India 1915-1922 - Book review /Thomas Weber. Journal of Resistance Studies2019 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of Gandhi the Organiser: How he shaped a nationwide rebellion: India 1915-1922 by Bob Over. Excerpt: "I first came across Bob Overy through a letter he had written to Peace News (of which he had been editor), published in September 1971. There he made the important point many in the peace movement tended to overlook: we are often concerned with the point of conflict rather than the source of conflict." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 5, no. 2, (2019), p. 122-126 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/gandhi-the-organiser/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11231 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.117doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Johansen, Jørgen Vinthagen, Stellan The Journal of Resistance Studies initiates collaborations with academic associations and activist communities /Jørgen Johansen and Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "There exist thousands of journals, and as a reader it is not easy to find the journals that write on topics you are really interested in and publish the kind of high quality work you want to read. At the same time, a key problem for an academic journal is how to become known, read, and relevant for that quite particular audience of readers that would probably appreciate it, if only they knew it existed… Therefore, it is very much a matter of how to do the matching, like with dating… One way is to connect academic associations with relevant journals." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 1, (2020), p. 5-7 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-journal-of-resistance-studies-initiates-collaborations-with-academic-associations-and-activist-communities/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11230 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.118doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Shutzberg, Mani Literal Tricks of the Trade. The Possibilities and Contradictions of Swedish Physicians’ Everyday Resistance in the Sickness Certification Process /Mani Shutzberg. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This article deals with the ways Swedish General practitioners (GPs) informally deal with the stricter standards of sickness certification and the implications of understanding these ways in terms of ‘resistance.’ In recent decades, procedural and bureaucratic changes within the Swedish sickness benefit system have curtailed physicians’ clinical discretion with regards to the sickness benefit approval for patients. By both formal and informal means, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (SSIA) has consolidated its power over the decision-making process. Despite widespread dissatisfaction among physicians with the current system, acts of open defiance do not seem to occur. However, as shown in a recent qualitative study, Swedish General practitioners have developed informal ‘techniques’ (ranging from simple exaggerations in the certificates to complex constructions of apparent objectivity) for intentionally circumventing the stricter sickness certification standards. Taking that study as a point of departure, this article will consider the use of techniques as a form of everyday resistance. Three dimensions of ambiguity arise which require further attention, namely: (1) the multiple motives and shifting target of resistance; (2) the complex blend of power and powerlessness which defines the situation of GPs and their resistance, and (3) the fundamental ambiguity of the resistant act of issuing sickness certificates tactically, as a particular mix of compliance and resistance. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 1, (2020), p. 8-39 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/literal-tricks-of-the-trade-the-possibilities-and-contradictions-of-swedish-physicians-everyday-resistance-in-the-sickness-certification-process/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11229 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.119doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Brown, Craig Gene Sharp: More Anarchist than Neoliberal /Craig Brown. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In the wake of the so-called Arab Spring, early efforts to explain the events in European and US media focused on the influence of the ideas of nonviolence scholar Gene Sharp. Irrespective of the accuracy of these efforts, this led to greater engagement with his contributions to the field of nonviolent resistance. However, Marcie Smith’s (2019a) appraisal of Sharp has leveled the serious accusation that he willingly contributed to US hegemony and economic neoliberalism. Alternatively, this paper presents the complex, context-specific circumstances of nonviolence in Eastern Europe, as well as the emergence of neoliberalism from Poland’s Solidarity movement—a heavily working-class resistance struggle against state socialism—to show that reducing nonviolent revolution to being responsible for reinforcing repressive systems, and reducing nonviolent revolution to Sharp’s pragmatic turn, is a severe oversimplification. Moreover, Gene Sharp’s writings are contextualized in relation to his more Anarchistic influences, in addition to Sharp’s concerted engagement with and replication of Hannah Arendt’s analysis of revolution and violence. It is argued that these largely overlooked elements of Sharp’s work should be drawn on to transcend the dominant ‘pragmatic nonviolence’ association of his work, while informing our understanding of constructive resistance during campaigns for dignity, equality, freedom, and alternatives to the capitalist system. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 1, (2020), p. 69-104 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/gene-sharp-more-anarchist-than-neoliberal/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11228 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.120doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Bayer, Markus Bethke, Felix S. Lambach, Daniel Levelling the Political Playing Field: How Nonviolent Resistance Influences Power Relations After Democratic Transition /Markus Bayer, Felix S. Bethke and Daniel Lambach. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Nonviolent resistance (NVR) is being used successfully as a strategy to depose dictators and achieve political change around the globe. This study explores how NVR not only advances democratic transition but also has a long-term effect on political power relations after transition. Bringing together the literatures on nonviolent resistance and political regimes, we develop a framework to analyze the effects of different modes of resistance on post-transition power relations in four different aspects: cabinet politics, party politics, peaceful turnover of power, and the political influence of civil society. Based on the in-depth analysis of two African democracies (Namibia and Benin), each resulting from a different mode of transition, we show that NVR levels the political playing field by fostering frequent elite replacement among government ministers, increasing the chances for peaceful political turnovers, inducing a more competitive and diverse party system, and creating a more inclusive environment for civil society organizations Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 1, (2020), p. 105-135 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/levelling-the-political-playing-field/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11227 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2018 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.121doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sims, Brandon Constituting Self-Violent Resistance: Materiality, Embodiment, and Speech Acts /Brandon Sims. Journal of Resistance Studies2018 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Dramatic self-violent acts, such as self-immolations and hunger strikes, often draw attention, but do not interpret or constitute themselves. In this article, theories of embodiment, materiality, and speech acts clarify the constitution of self-violent resistance as a concept for academics and activists. A novel typology is introduced to situate self-imposed suffering among other forms of resistance, such as armed conflict, nonviolent action, and suicide attacks. An original discourse analysis of self-violence across India from 2011-2016 provides empirical examples of the power dynamics involved in constituting self-violent resistance. The analysis reveals how government officials may successfully frame self-violent resistance as personal desperation driven by mental disturbance, and how social movements use the bodies, objects, and physical spaces involved to declare a seemingly personal act as public resistance. This article contributes to the field of resistance studies by moving beyond generalized references to cultural frames in explaining self-violent resistance, clarifying the contested status of self-violence in relation to the usual violence/nonviolence dichotomy, and demonstrating how theories of embodiment and materiality reveal the differing logics behind self-violent, violent, and nonviolent tactics. Exploring what gets counted as self-violent resistance and who becomes authorized to conduct self-violent resistance is important not only as an exercise in concept formation but also for understanding how individual embodied practices become sites of wider struggle. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 4, no. 2, (2018), p. 17-53 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/constituting-self-violent-resistance-materiality-embodiment-and-speech-acts/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11226 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.122doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Brown, Craig Peter Kropotkin: Mutual Aid - Book Review /Craig Brown. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of the classical book: Peter Kropotkin: Mutual Aid Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 1, (2020), p. 157-165 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/peter-kropotkin-mutual-aid-book-review/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11225 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.123doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Brown, Craig S. Review of the game: 'Gandhi: the Decolonisation of British India, 1917-1947.' /Craig S. Brown. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "As a longstanding enthusiast of boardgames and a scholar of nonviolence, I have heavily anticipated the release of Gandhi, as a rare if not unique focus on nonviolence in this genre. As with the boardgame Bloc by Bloc reviewed in JRS (Volume 5 Number 1), such a treatment of resistance and all the risks it entails could easily convey commodification and reductivity. However, the development of Gandhi has clearly been undertaken with significant research and respect for its themes—both the Indian independence struggle and nonviolent resistance generally—and effectively reflects the spirit, strengths, and shortcomings of broader resistance in the specific context." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 1, (2020), p. 175-179 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-the-game-gandhi-the-decolonisation-of-british-india-1917-1947/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11224 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.124doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Case, Benjamin S. Review of 'Rhodes Must Fall: the Struggle to Decolonize the Racist Heart of an Empire' /Benjamin S. Case. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "The past several years have seen an explosion of activism ostensibly aimed at the removal of statues, namesakes, or other public memorials dedicated to racist historical figures. A catalyst for this recent wave was the #RhodesMustFall movement in South Africa, which mobilized around a statue of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town, and quickly went global." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 1, (2020), p. 172-172 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/rhodes-must-fall/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11223 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.125doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Akkeh, Yara Review of Baconi, Tareq: 'Hamas Contained: the Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance' /Yara Akkeh. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of Baconi, Tareq: 'Hamas Contained: the Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance' Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 1, (2020), p. 169-171 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-baconi-tareq-hamas-contained-the-rise-and-pacification-of-palestinian-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11222 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.126doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Parker, Emily Review of Ather Zia: 'Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation & Women’s Activism in Kashmir' /Emily Parker. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of Ather Zia: 'Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation & Women’s Activism in Kashmir' Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 1, (2020), p. 167-169 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-ather-zia-resisting-disappearance-military-occupation-womens-activism-in-kashmir/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11221 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.127doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Kennedy, Chris Agripino Review of Tsering Woeser: 'Tibet on Fire' /Chris Agripino Kennedy. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of Tsering Woeser: 'Tibet on Fire' Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 1, (2020), p. 166-167 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-tsering-woeser-tibet-on-fire/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11220 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.128doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Elmeligy, Nehal Making a Scene: Young Women’s Feminist Social Nonmovement in Cairo /Nehal Elmeligy. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This 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 participation in the revolution for some. Through interviews with twelve Cairene women in 2017, I investigate how and why they defy the social norms governing women’s use of public spaces and investigate the role of the 2011 revolution in their different forms of feminist defiance. I analyze three acts of public feminist resistance: women removing the hijab, defying street harassment, and moving out of their parents’ and husbands’ homes. My findings contribute to the literature on recent Egyptian women’s feminist resistance specifically, and everyday resistance studies in general. Only a quarter of my participants identify the revolution as the main reason for their feminist epiphany and resistance. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 2, (2020), p. 18-50 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/making-a-scene-young-womens-feminist-social-nonmovement-in-cairo/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11219 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.129doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Abdelhamid, Amira The Mobilisation of Deviance as Counterrevolutionary Technology in Egypt /Amira Abdelhamid. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In 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 have since prevailed. This article argues that the historical imagination of the evils of westernisation, delegitimises the revolution and its revolutionaries, while at the same time reproduces the figure of the monolithic normative (Honourable) Egyptian citizen, as docile and counterrevolutionary. In employing figuration as a method, I examine the emergence of the figure of the Egyptian Male Homosexual through the 2001 Queen Boat incident and argue that the mobilisation of figures of deviance acts as a counterrevolutionary technology that long preceded revolution. I suggest that rather than designate failure to the revolution, we should look elsewhere for the new potential for a resistance that disrupts these figurations and their effects. Through a counter-conduct analytic, the article posits that local human rights work is undertheorized as an important space to contest the power that conducts and encourages resistance. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 2, (2020), p. 51-85 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-mobilisation-of-deviance-as-counterrevolutionary-technology-in-egypt/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11218 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.130doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Bramsen, Isabel To Strike Together: Conflict Rituals and the Situational Power of Nonviolence /Isabel Bramsen. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier What 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 activists can benefit from understanding the situational power of nonviolence. Having described Randall Collins’ notion of interaction rituals, I proceed to theorize domination and conflict interaction rituals, the ingredients and outcomes hereof, and how conflict rituals can vary in intensity. I challenge Collins’ argument that violence and conflict go against the tendency to become entrained with others and argue that violence and conflict actually characterize a new pattern of interaction in which the parties mirror each other’s actions. Subsequently, using cases from the Arab Spring as examples, I argue that violence can be a form of both conflictual and domination interaction rituals. Finally, I show how nonviolence can be used to alter the rhythm of interaction in domination rituals and potentially reinforce a new rhythm both through actions of fraternization and more direct acts of resistance and noncompliance. In so doing, I engage with Evelin Lindner’s concept of Mandela-like qualities as the ability to resist domination and analyze situations from Bahrain, where activists have disrupted domination rituals nonviolently. I conclude by emphasizing the added value of the micro-sociological perspective for challenging structural and direct violence manifested in particular situations. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 2, (2020), p. 86-111 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/to-strike-together-conflict-rituals-and-the-situational-power-of-nonviolence/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11217 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.131doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Kanaaneh, Abed Hezbollah’s Dilemma: between Resistance and Sectarianism /Abed Kanaaneh. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier The 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 power. The present mobilization has put the foundations of the Lebanese regime at stake. This article attempts to trace Hezbollah’s reaction by following the trail of the speeches held by the organization’s secretary-general about the mobilization in the first two months, as Hezbollah is the main force largely dominating the Lebanese regime, and how the present mobilization has rendered Hezbollah the main advocate for a regime which Hezbollah (at its outset) sought to uproot. The article demonstrates that Hezbollah is somewhat ‘embarrassed’ at the grassroot level, for its muqawama (Resistance) project would seem deficient unless it provides all the Lebanese with a clear-cut answer regarding the socioeconomic situation, something that the party has not done yet. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 2, (2020), p. 145-177 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/hezbollahs-dilemma-between-resistance-and-sectarianism/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11216 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.132doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Hills, Jonathan William Alexander Review of Alistair Horne: 'A Savage War of Peace' /Jonathan William Alexander Hills. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of Alistair Horne: 'A Savage War of Peace' Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 2, (2020), p. 241-250 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-alistair-horne-a-savage-war-of-peace/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11215 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.133doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Naser-Najjab, Nadia Review of 'Discussing Arms: A Reading in the Complications of Palestinian Armed Experience' /Nadia Naser-Najjab. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review Majed Kayali: [Discussing Arms: A Reading in the Complications of Palestinian Armed Experience] Arab Institute for Studies and Distribution, 2020 Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 2, (2020), p. 235-240 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-discussing-arms-a-reading-in-the-complications-of-palestinian-armed-experience/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11214 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.134doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Knight, Ryan A. Review of 'Modernidades Alternativas' and 'Prefiguraciones De Lo Político' /Ryan A. Knight. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of Millán, Márgara, Lucía Linsalata and Daniel Inclán, ed. 'Modernidades Alternativas' and Millán, Márgara, ed. 'Prefiguraciones De Lo Político' Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 2, (2020), p. 229-250 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-modernidades-alternativas-and-prefiguraciones-de-lo-politico/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11213 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.135doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Kirkegaard, Ane Marie Ørbø Glocal Resistance and De-colonisation /Ane Marie Ørbø Kirkegaard. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This 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, the Islamic world and the ‘West.’ However, his discussion bears relevance to other spaces with experience of colonial imperial domination and occupation, historically and contemporarily. While first published a decade before the Arab Spring, it bears relevance also to the clamours for political participation and social development, which so pervaded the risings in West Asia and North Africa, including the oft forgotten Sudan. In this particular discussion of civil society, the focus is on showing the global relevance of Khatami’s conceptualisation of civil society as it emanates from the Dialogue among Cultures and Civilisations initiative, in a world where strategic disorder seems to be an increasing answer to resistance practices following local demands for political participation as well as independence from Western political economic structures of dominance—i.e. in spaces attempting to decolonise. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 2, (2020), p. 178-195 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/glocal-resistance-and-de-colonisation/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11212 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.136doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Brown, Craig Hamid Dabashi: The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism /Craig Brown. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of the classic by Hamid Dabashi: The Arab Spring: the End of Postcolonialism'. Excerpt: "In 2012 I began my PhD research in earnest, which originally had the broad and optimistic aim of studying dynamics of nonviolent resistance across the entire West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region during the so-called Arab Spring. Entire books on the events had already been released by 2012, seeming to mark a rush to provide expansive analyses of the processes and implications of the so-called Arab Spring." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 2, (2020), p. 211-221 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-the-arab-spring-the-end-of-postcolonialism/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11211 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.137doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan Journal of Resistance Studies’ Interview with Elik Elhanan /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "I met Elhanan the first time in 2012, on board the same ship, SV Estelle, sailing towards Gaza. We both experienced the military assault and kidnapping by IDF on international waters, hindering us from delivering humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza. And we were in jail together, until I got deported (for ‘trying to illegally enter Israel’ ...). Elhanan, on the other hand, was threatened with harsh punishments (for ‘trying to illegally enter Gaza’ ...). Since then we have kept in touch." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 2, (2020), p. 196-210 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/journal-of-resistance-studies-interview-with-elik-elhanan/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11210 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.138doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan The Journal of Resistance Studies' interview with James C Scott /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "In my capacity as the editor of Journal of Resistance Studies, I traveled to an old New England homestead in Durham, Connecticut, USA, and conducted an interview with one of the founding fathers of resistance studies: James C. Scott. In a rural, traditional white wooden house, among some chickens and two cows, a vegetable garden, and with a library and writing desk in a barn, lives this Sterling Professor of Political Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 1, (2020), p. 136-156 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/interview-interview-with-james-c-scott/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11208 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.139doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Rigby, Andrew Reflections on researching Palestinian resistance /Andrew Rigby. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier A review of three essays: Michael J Carter: Palestinian popular struggle: Unarmed and participatory, Routledge, 2019 Raja Shehadeh: Going home: A walk through fifty years of occupation, Profile Books, 2019 Ramzy Baroud, ed.: These chains will be broken: Palestinian stories of struggle and defiance in Israeli prisons, Clarity Press, 2019 Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 2, (2020), p. 222-228 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/reflections-on-researching-palestinian-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11207 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.140doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan What is the core of resistance studies? To challenge conventional perspectives on resistance? /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "Seven years into the successful establishment of the Journal of Resistance Studies (JRS), it seems appropriate to make some reflections on what makes ‘resistance studies’ its own field; an area of specialized teaching, research, debate, and engagement, involving a body of texts, organized collectives, and attached individuals, all focused on resistance. Or, put differently: what makes ‘resistance studies’ alive?" Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 5-8 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/what-is-the-core-of-resistance-studies-to-challenge-conventional-perspectives-on-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11206 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.141doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Liedman, Sven-Eric A catechism becomes a manifesto /Sven-Eric Liedman. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier A review of the classic Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto. Excerpt: "The Communist Manifesto is the most translated, most widespread, and most well-known of all the writings by Marx and Engels. It was first published early in 1848, just before the wave of revolutions all over Europe. Its immediate influence was, however, limited. It was only some decades later that it formed the first step in almost all introductions to the political theory of Marx." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 134-146 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/a-catechism-becomes-a-manifesto/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11204 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.142doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan Review of 'Many Grains of Sand: A Sourcebook of Ideas for Changing the World, Tried and Tested in Catalonia' /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of 'Many Grains of Sand: A Sourcebook of Ideas for Changing the World, Tried and Tested in Catalonia' by Liz Castro Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 192-198 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-many-grains-of-sand-a-sourcebook-of-ideas-for-changing-the-world-tried-and-tested-in-catalonia/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11203 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.143doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Murru, Sarah Why Resistance Studies Should Pay Attention to Institutional Ethnography /Sarah Murru. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of Rebecca W. B. Lund & Ann Christin E. Nilsen: Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region Routledge, 2020 Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 185-191 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/why-resistance-studies-should-pay-attention-to-institutional-ethnography/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11202 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.144doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Isard, Risa F. Review of 'Black Men on the Blacktop: Basketball & the Politics of Race' /Risa F. Isard. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of 'Black Men on the Blacktop: Basketball & the Politics of Race' by A. Rafik Mohamed Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 181-184 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-black-men-on-the-blacktop-basketball-the-politics-of-race/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11201 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.145doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sanderson, Jordan M. A Textual Review of Transgender Resistance in Music Performance and Nerd Culture /Jordan M. Sanderson. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier A music review of Dorian Electra: My Agenda Self-released, 2020 Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 173-180 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/a-textual-review-of-transgender-resistance-in-music-performance-and-nerd-culture/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11200 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.146doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Riccitelli, Joanna Review of 'Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines' /Joanna Riccitelli. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of 'Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines' by Jennifer A. Reich Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 170-172 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-calling-the-shots-why-parents-reject-vaccines/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11199 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.147doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Geraci, Joseph Review of 'This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook' and 'Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?' /Joseph Geraci. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of  two books in one. 'This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook' by Clare Farrell, Alison Green, Sam Knights and William Skeaping, eds., and 'Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?' by Bill McKibben Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 163-169 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-this-is-not-a-drill/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11198 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.148doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Brown, Craig Review of 'Violence: Humans in Dark Times' /Craig Brown. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of 'Violence: Humans in Dark Times' by Brad Evans & Natasha Lennard Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 156-162 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-violence-humans-in-dark-times/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11197 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.149doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Ajour, Ashjan Review of 'Consciousness Molded: or the Re-Identifcation of Palestinian Torture Jalbu’a Prison /Ashjan Ajour. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of 'Consciousness Molded: or the Re-Identifcation of Palestinian Torture Jalbu’a Prison Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 151-155 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-consciousness-molded-or-the-re-identification-of-palestinian-torture-jalbua-prison/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11196 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.150doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Duffy, Artemis Review of Pleasure Activism: the Politics of Feeling Good /Artemis Duffy. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of Pleasure Activism: the Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 147-150 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-pleasure-activism-the-politics-of-feeling-good/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11195 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.151doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Cheng, Wan-Juo Everyday Resistance of Trainee Therapists under Clinical Supervision /Wan-Juo Cheng. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Supervisee resistance is often construed as an execution of their power to diminish the effects of the supervisors’ power in the field of counseling psychology. Such a limited view of resistance may ignore its sociocultural context and further support the social structure of domination that necessitates resistance in the first place. Given that resistance and power are connected yet distinct concepts, understanding resistance is necessary to better understand power relations. The discipline of psychology largely recognizes the ability of organized, collective resistance to make social changes, although not that of everyday forms of resistance that intend to survive and simultaneously sabotage domination. To expand the understanding of everyday resistance by recognizing agency that is culturally situated in social relations, this qualitative study used semi-structured interviews with seven supervisee participants to investigate their everyday resistance in clinical supervision, particularly focusing on the tactics they employed in interactions with their supervisors and what was achieved through those tactics, and the agency and subjectivity interwoven with the resistant acts upheld by cultural or professional discourses. The results indicate that the tactics employed (for example, selective presentation of cases or self, note-taking, acting positive, and pretended speculation) are not only aimed at protecting their professional integrity and therapist subjectivity, but also at maintaining harmonious supervisory relationships that may generate valuable social networks (guanxi) for future career development. Under the circumstances in which supervisees are unable to abide by both the professional ideology and cultural ethics of honoring instructors, they adopt the identi… Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 46-76 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/everyday-resistance-of-trainee-therapists-under-clinical-supervision/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11194 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.152doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Ajour, Ashjan Techniques of Resistance through Weaponization of the Body During Palestinian Hunger Strikes /Ashjan Ajour. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This article conceptualises the techniques of resistance developed by Palestinian hunger strikers. Through the weaponization of the body they seek to disrupt the techniques of power exercised over their starving bodies by the Israel Prison Authorities (IPA), as well as the Israeli intelligence services responsible for administrative detention. It shows that hunger strike is a site of creativity of resistance and human agency. From the hunger strikers’ view, it demonstrates their ability to claim agency over their bodies and the power of life and death which rests in the hands of those who resist. This mode of resistance not only reflects the relationship between Palestinian political prisoners and the IPA but also illustrates the complexity of settler-colonialism and the dynamics of anti-colonial resistance. The article approaches the techniques of power and resistance between the IPA and political prisoners chronologically, from the initial phase of the hunger, the peak of the struggle, and the advanced stage which is marked by negotiations between the prisoners and the IPA. The trajectory of hunger strikes varies according to the decomposition of the starving body, and at each stage the prison authorities change the emphasis of their techniques in order to break the hunger strike, whilst the prisoners invent new techniques to sustain the hunger strike. Subjectivity formation during the hunger strike arises from the protracted battle between the resistant subjects and colonial power. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 77-110 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/techniques-of-resistance-through-weaponization-of-the-body-during-palestinian-hunger-strikes/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11193 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.153doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan The Journal of Resistance Studies’ Interview with David Hardiman: Subaltern Studies and Resistance /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "Based in the UK and India, David Hardiman was one of the historians who created the Subaltern Studies Group, an editorial and research collective that received worldwide recognition for a book series that started in 1982, conferences on subaltern studies, and numerous articles. The Subaltern Studies Group was part of a larger post-structural and cultural turn in the humanities and social sciences, which has profoundly changed how we today discuss history, power, the Subject, consciousness, colonialism, and resistance." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), p. 111-133 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-journal-of-resistance-studies-interview-with-david-hardiman-subaltern-studies-and-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11175 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2020 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.154doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Norman, Julie M. Beyond Hunger Strikes: The Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement and Everyday Resistance /Julie M. Norman. Journal of Resistance Studies2020 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Studies on prison-based resistance often focus, understandably, on the phenomenon of hunger strikes. However, most collective hunger strikes are preceded and complemented by other types of resistance, including the formation of alternative institutions and various forms of non-cooperation. These everyday acts of resistance, usually unpublicized, form a necessary foundation for the organization of sustained hunger strikes, and are also ends in themselves in terms of maintaining prisoners’ sense of dignity and frustrating the intended order of the prison authority. In this article, I use the Palestinian prisoners’ movement as a case study to explore how prisoners’ everyday acts of resistance, including the establishment of a ‘counterorder’ of parallel institutions, the development of a political education system, and day-to-day non-cooperation, are crucial for maintaining a sense of agency, gaining rights, and transforming power relations within, and at times, beyond the prison space. Using Johansson and Vinthagen’s (2020, 2016) model of everyday resistance, the research demonstrates how extending the repertoire of prison-based tactics beyond hunger strikes facilitates the subversion of both the spatial and temporal boundaries of the prison to allow for a disruption of the intended power dynamics established by the state. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 6, no. 1, (2020), p. 40-68 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/beyond-hunger-strikes-the-palestinian-prisoners-movement-and-everyday-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11173 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.155doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Edgcumbe, Sarah Louise Rural Women in the Balkh and Herat Provinces of Afghanistan Simultaneous Resistance to, and Reproduction of, Patriarchal Power Structures /Sarah Louise Edgcumbe. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier "This article will examine how rural Afghan women employ practices of everyday resistance as a means of challenging extremely patriarchal power structures and male domination in Afghanistan. The research presented illustrates how rural women simultaneously support and reproduce patriarchal societal structures and values through quiet encroachment of public spaces and the labor market as well as conscious adherence to certain patriarchal norms. Through a qualitative research method consisting of eleven focus groups with 130 rural women from four districts, across two provinces in Afghanistan, a structurationist approach is employed in order to fully account for the interaction and interrelationship between dominant, male-privileging structures of power and rural women’s agency. Significantly, these women, through the intentions behind their practices of everyday resistance and encroachment upon public spaces, demonstrate that they do not wish to eradicate patriarchy, but rather to transform it into a more benign structure of power which conforms to the women’s interpretation of Islam. This is a construction of Islam which accommodates women as individuals with agency and ability, enabling them to take advantage of independent mobility, provide for their families, and send their children (sons and daughters) to school. Thus, these women deliberately engage in everyday resistance to extreme manifestations of patriarchy, but simultaneously consciously adhere to, and subtly advocate for, more benevolent patriarchal social norms." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 2, (2021), p. 1-36 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/rural-women-in-the-balkh-and-herat-provinces-of-afghanistan-simultaneous-resistance-to-and-reproduction-of-patriarchal-power-structures/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11172 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.156doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda de Jong, Anne Violence in Nonviolent Action: Power Relations in Joint Activism in Israel and Palestine /Anne de Jong. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This 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 actions in Israel and Palestine, this paper poses, mirror or even enable the injustices they initially seek to oppose. Based on nineteen months of fieldwork research in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories including annexed East Jerusalem and besieged Gaza, this paper provides a ethnographic description of a so called joint Palestinian-Israeli nonviolent action near the Gaza Strip. The ethnographic detail enables an analysis which reveals 1) how unequal power relations can be reproduced within nonviolent protests, and 2) how certain nonviolent protests can perpetuate the structural violence they initially seek to oppose. The primary aim of this paper is not to differentiate between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ activism or resistance perse. It does aim to show how meticulous attention to less visible forms of violence can deepen our understanding of the reproduction of power and structural violence within nonviolent protest. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 2, (2021), p. 112-144 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/violence-in-nonviolent-action-power-relations-in-joint-activism-in-israel-and-palestine/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11168 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.157doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sørensen, Majken Jul Resistance and Milgram’s obedience studies in light of new research /Majken Jul Sørensen. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "Stanley Milgram’s studies of obedience to authority from the early 1960s are perhaps the most well-known social-psychological experiments in history. Together with Solomon Asch’s studies about conformity and Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment, they have informed generations of students in psychology and sociology and found their way into popular culture." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 2, (2021), p. 37-53 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resistance-and-milgrams-obedience-studies-in-light-of-new-research/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11169 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.158doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Stromback, Dennis The Method of Political Resistance and the Concept of the ‘People’ in Tosaka Jun and Enrique Dussel /Dennis Stromback. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier It is rather common to couple Japanese Marxist Tosaka Jun (1900-1945) with critical theorists like Walter Benjamin or Theodor Adorno in the comparative philosophy literature, but little, if anything at all, has been said about the shared discursive strategies of political resistance theorized by Tosaka Jun and Latin American philosopher Enrique Dussel (1934- ). Despite being continents and generations apart, Tosaka and Dussel nonetheless offer similar critiques of empire building within a system of capitalism as well as methods of resistance to disrupt to its ideological justification. Linked by the lineage of Marxism and their suspicion of the deterministic aspects of modernist thought, both Tosaka and Dussel present accounts of political power bound to the ‘people’ themselves, packaged as hegemonic strategies (à la Gramsci) that privilege those on the periphery, that which refuse to be subsumed into the capitalist system generating colonial expansion. Where they diverge, however, is in their view of the ‘people’ for constructing, positioning, and localizing collective struggles and democratic movements, with each account being stronger in an area where the other is more limited, thus pointing towards a space of synthesis. This article therefore argues for a teaming up of what Dussel calls ‘el pueblo’—which is a theoretical category referring to the political power articulated by localized communities—with Tosaka’s critical method of journalistic and philosophical reflection, with the aim of empowering the people, because it will provide us with a stronger view of political resistance at the periphery that will act as a force for democratic possibilities. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 2, (2021), p. 85-110 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-method-of-political-resistance-and-the-concept-of-the-people-in-tosaka-jun-and-enrique-dussel/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11167 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.159doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Rigby, Andrew Review of 'Ban the bomb! Michael Randle and Direct Action against Nuclear War' /Andrew Rigby. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of Martin Levy: 'Ban the bomb! Michael Randle and Direct Action against Nuclear War'. "I have been a friend, colleague, and comrade of Michael Randle for forty years—so I cannot claim that what follows is a dispassionate book review. As someone who was active in a local peace group during the ‘first wave’ of the nuclear disarmament movement in the UK in the late 1950s/early 1960s, Michael Randle was something of a national figure within peace movement circles." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 2, (2021), p. 141-147 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-ban-the-bomb-michael-randle-and-direct-action-against-nuclear-war/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11166 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.160doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Rigby, Andrew Review of Marda Dunsky: 'Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience' /Andrew Rigby. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of Marda Dunsky's 'Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience'. Excerpt: "I have been visiting Israel and Palestine since the early 1980s. It has been an up and down emotional journey. There was the buoyancy after the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993, and there seemed to be definite grounds for hope for the future. Since then, it has been a challenge to summon the will to express any optimism as the possibilities for any sustainable peace have been eroded." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 2, (2021), p. 138-140 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-marda-dunsky-stories-from-palestine-narratives-of-resilience/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11165 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.161doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Brown, Craig Review of 'Midnight in Cairo: the Female Stars of Egypt’s Roaring ’20s'' /Craig Brown. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of  Raphael Cormack's book: Midnight in Cairo: the Female Stars of Egypt’s Roaring ’20s'. Excerpt: Midnight in Cairo relates the history of Cairo’s nightlife during the 1920s, as well as the life stories of some of the women who played a prominent role in those years—lives that were rarely recorded by the women themselves. In terms of resistance studies, there are three main insights from the book. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 2, (2021), p. 132-137 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/midnight-in-cairo/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11164 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.162doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Martin, Brian Review of 'Breaking things at Work: the Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job /Brian Martin. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier "The Luddites have a bad reputation. They were English weavers in the early 1800s who opposed the introduction of mechanized looms and went about destroying them, taking their name from the imaginary character Ned Ludd. Since then, the term Luddite has been turned into a derogatory label for anyone critical of new technologies and therefore deemed to be against progress. If you do not want to use a mobile phone or eat genetically modified food, you might be called a Luddite, and it is not complimentary. More specifically, workers who damage their equipment are portrayed as irrational." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 2, (2021), p. 128-131 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-breaking-things-at-work-the-luddites-are-right-about-why-you-hate-your-job/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11163 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2021 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.163doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Meyer, Matt Expanding Resistance, Expanding Resistance Studies /Matt Meyer. Journal of Resistance Studies2021 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "As Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), I am often asked to comment on the state of ‘the field’ of peace studies. Peace research and what is now commonly referred to as conflict (or conflict resolution) studies has always been hard to both qualify and quantify. At the very least an amalgam of sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, historians, economists, philosophers, and related social scientists, we have always committed ourselves to building connections with community activists, front-line service providers, spiritual and faith-based organizers, students and youth, and many others." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 7, no. 2, (2021), p. 5-18 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/expanding-resistance-expanding-resistance-studies/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11144 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.164doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Vinthagen, Stellan A Resistance History of India /Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This article takes a historical view on the Indian civil society; its actors, strategies and issues, and evaluates its democracy-promoting resistance, and the impact from globalization. After a brief overview of the pre-independence context, and the early post-independence developments, the period of advanced globalization from the 1990s is focused. India is a country with a strong social movement culture, formed through its history of anticolonial struggle. The civil society is vibrant, diverse and conflictual, with a multitude of groups. Key examples are the anti-colonial movement, the land reform movement, the mobilization for “Total Revolution”, as well as alliances of movements and recurrent mobilizations by peasants, women, Adivasi (Indigenous), Dalits (“untouchables”). The analysis outlines four historical periods with very different conditions for democracy-promoting resistance. The conclusion is that resistance has been very successful, especially initially. However, the analysis also shows how the counter-mobilization by Hindu nationalists grew strong and more impactful during advanced globalization. The result is that Indian democracy has been undermined. Thus, despite initial and fundamental impact, it is the Hindu nationalist counter-resistance to the resistance of pro-democracy civil society groups, that is impacting contemporary democracy. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 1, (2022), p. 42-73 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/a-resistance-history-of-india/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11142 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.165doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Franz, Barbara Humanitarian Grass-roots work in Refugee Resettlement during the Trump Administration: A Study of Constructive Resistance /Barbara Franz. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier The COVID-19 pandemic, in combination with the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies, has led to policy shifts and temporary bans that essentially ended asylum and refugee resettlement in the United States for the period from 2019 to 2021. Regional organizations, however, have continued to sponsor refugees and provide community-based educational, employment, and material support work. In the Tri-State area of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, local pockets of resistance initiated grass-roots programs such as COVID-19 Relief Funds, the Mask Making Initiative, the Lighthouse, and the Fun Club. The text investigates these programs and the four humanitarian NGOs in which they are housed, through the lens of ‘constructive resistance’, especially the works of Mona Lilja, Majken Jul Sørensen, and Minoo Koefoed. Situated between the politics of governance (Maiguashca 2003) and individual and grass-roots forms of resistance, this paper looks at local reactions that led to projects aiming at actively remaking community. The four projects exemplify the communities’ efforts to create humanitarian and localized structures of compassion, by developing programs that assist and help those individuals who were exposed to the most aggressively exclusivist policies of the Trump administration. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 1, (2022), p. 74-107 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/humanitarian-grass-roots-work-in-refugee-resettlement-during-the-trump-administration-a-study-of-constructive-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11141 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.166doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Brown, Craig S. Overcoming the ‘Barrier of Fear’ in Order to Resist: the 2020 Protests against the Lukashenko Regime in Belarus /Craig S. Brown. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier In August 2020, widespread open resistance emerged against Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus, in the wake of the presidential elections. Through a media content analysis, this paper assesses how the emotion of fear was presented by English language European and North American print and online media, with the departure point being the perceived loss of fear among Belarusians. It seeks to understand: how was fear discussed in relation to resistance in Belarus in the mainstream media accounts? How did fear manifest among Belarusians and what were its effects? For resistance movements, what are the practical implications of understanding how fear manifests and affects actors? Although several headlines in the key period of mid-August 2020 reflect the phenomenon of a ‘barrier of fear’ being broken, Belarusian resisters’ perspectives present in some of the articles show how feelings of fear are far more complex. The themes are as follows: ‘fear remains’; the ‘loss of fear’ among opponents of Lukashenko; ‘pre-election loss of fear’; ‘fear among the regime and security force elements’; ‘taking action as imperative—regardless of fear’, as well as a ‘point of no return’ being reached. It is clear that it is more accurate to talk about people making a decision to resist despite their fear. Moreover, there seems to be a crucial relationship between feelings of anger about regime brutality and the willingness to act regardless of fear about the implications. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 1, (2022), p. 10-41 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/overcoming-the-barrier-of-fear-in-order-to-resist-the-2020-protests-against-the-lukashenko-regime-in-belarus/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11140 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.167doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Brown, Craig Editorial, Volume 8, Number 1 - 2022 /Craig Brown. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "From 1st to 4th June 2022, the European Peace Research Association (EuPRA) held its biannual conference in Tampere, Finland. Titled ‘Empowering Peace: The Role of Civil Society in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation’, there was abundant space to explore bottom-up peace dynamics and, significantly, critical peace and resistance studies and practices. In the past few years, EuPRA initiated a concerted effort to reorient towards these fields—not least with the agreement to adopt the Journal of Resistance Studies as its association journal." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 1, (2022), p. 5-9 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/editorial-volume-8-number-1-2022/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11137 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.168doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Shemia-Goeke, Dalilah Review of 'Common Preservation: In a time of mutual destruction' /Dalilah Shemia-Goeke. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of Jeremy Brecher' s book: Common Preservation: In a time of mutual destruction' PM Press 2021 Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 1, (2022), p. 124-127 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-common-preservation-in-a-time-of-mutual-destruction/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11136 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.169doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Hewett, Matthew Review of 'Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance' /Matthew Hewett. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of the book by Tareq Baconia: 'Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance' Stanford University Press 2018 Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 1, (2022), p. 121-123 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-hamas-contained-the-rise-and-pacification-of-palestinian-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11135 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.170doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Overy, Bob Review of 'Sowing Seeds for the Future, Exploring the Power of Constructive Nonviolent Action' /Bob Overy. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of 'Sowing Seeds for the Future, Exploring the Power of Constructive Nonviolent Action' Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 1, (2022), p. 118-120 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-sowing-seeds-for-the-future-exploring-the-power-of-constructive-nonviolent-action/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11134 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.171doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Martin, Brian Review of 'Whistleblowing for Change: Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice' /Brian Martin. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of the book 'Whistleblowing for Change: Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice' by Tatiana Bazzichelli (ed.) Transcript Verlag, 2021 Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 1, (2022), p. 111-117 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-whistleblowing-for-change-exposing-systems-of-power-and-injustice/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11133 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.172doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda García, Crisol González Review of 'Radical Transformational Leadership: Strategic Action for Change Agents' /Crisol González García. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of Monica Sharma's book: 'Radical Transformational Leadership: Strategic Action for Change Agents' North Atlantic Books, 2017 Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 1, (2022), p. 108-110 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-radical-transformational-leadership-strategic-action-for-change-agents/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11131 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.173doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Johansen, Jørgen The need to document, evaluate, and develop actions and strategies of resistance /Jørgen Johansen. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "In this issue, we have articles that again expand, develop, and clarify what resistance studies are about. The number of academic fields that include research on resistance is growing rapidly. The multidisciplinary and critical literature review done by Sophie Del Fa, Geneviève Boivin, Ann-Sophie Boily, and Ève Leclair shows how resistance studies are integrated into close to twenty different disciplines." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 2, (2022), p. 5-11 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-need-to-document-evaluate-and-develop-actions-and-strategies-of-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11129 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.174doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Del Fa, Sophie Boivin, Geneviève Boily, Ann-Sophie Leclair, Ève Thinking communicatively and relationally about practices of resistances /Sophie Del Fa, Geneviève Boivin, Ann-Sophie Boily and Ève Leclair. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier By reviewing the literature on practices of resistances in social sciences, organization studies, and communication, this essay aims to show how a communicative relationality perspective anchored in the constitutive communication approach (CCO) is relevant to exploring the large phenomenon of resistances. We define resistances as a set of relational and communicative practices that seek individual and/or collective liberation against/through/within diverse hegemonic powers perceived as constraining by one or several individuals. This set of relational practices enacts (and are enacted by) various degrees of organizationality that a communicative approach helps highlight. Our conceptualization of practices of resistances inspired by emergent definitions of both communication and organizations opens avenues to create original and engaged empirical studies. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 2, (2022), p. 12-55 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/thinking-communicatively-and-relationally-about-practices-of-resistances/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11128 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.175doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Lilja, Mona Vinthagen, Stellan Wiksell, Kristin Beyond “Individual” or “Collective” Resistance: Assessment towards an Agenda for Future Research on Dissent /Mona Lilja, Stellan Vinthagen and Kristin Wiksell. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier We argue that studies of resistance have suffered from a bifurcation of fields, whereby some focus on organized forms (social movements, civil society or revolutions), while others are concerned with individual types (everyday, local and dispersed) of resistance. This de facto academic division has unwittingly obscured the links, dynamics, hybridity and entanglements between different forms of resistance. In order to stimulate a more complex and nuanced understanding of resistance, we propose a new research agenda for transdisciplinary studies of resistance and present some connections between individual and more collective/organized forms of resistance that need to be systematically explored in future research. Overall, this article argues for the need to recognize both the variation in forms of resistance, and the (often hybrid) linkages between them. The recognition that individual acts of resistance are fundamentally entangled with collective or organized dissent is necessary for shifting our understanding of resistance. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 2, (2022), p. 56-73 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/beyond-individual-or-collective-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11127 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.176doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Richmond, Oliver P. Artpeace: Validating Power, Mobilising Resistance, and Imagining Emancipation /Oliver P. Richmond. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Art has apparently followed political power for much of history, while avoiding representations of social, subaltern, and political resistance, or experimentation with new approaches to emancipation. Less obviously, however, this article outlines how a creative synthesis of critique, politics, and representation has led to an evolving form of ‘artpeace’. This concept appears to have been related to power and was thus limited and Eurocentric in the past, but more importantly it has also provided a platform for critical agency, resistance, and experimentation, with implications for the politics of peacemaking. This article outlines what this means for various strands of artpeace and their possible conceptual implications. ‘Pax optima rerum’ (Peace is the greatest good) ‘Pax optima rerum quas homini nouisse datum est, pax una triumphis innumeris potior…’ (peace is the best of things which it is given to man to know, a single peace is more powerful than countless triumphs). Silius Italicus, Punica, (25-101 AD) Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 2, (2022), p. 74-110 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/artpeace-validating-power-mobilising-resistance-and-imagining-emancipation/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11126 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.177doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Kalmring, Stefan Veth, Silke Changing the World through Political Education: On the Attempt to turn the World upside down with the Help of Political Education /Stefan Kalmring and Silke Veth. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: "Political education that is dedicated to the task of fundamentally changing the world? Education that is committed to the tradition of democratic socialism? That also thinks of itself as ‘radical’ in the way that a young Karl Marx meant it, meaning it seeks to ‘grasp the root’ (Marx 2010, 182) of domination, social inequality, and destruction of nature? For many readers, it may sound like we are describing a project from another time." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 1, (2022), p. 111-123 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/changing-the-world-through-political-education/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11124 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.178doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Rigby, Andrew Obituary: April Carter (1937-2022) /Andrew Rigby. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Obituary of April Carter, prominent activist and academic, and review of her work and publications. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 2, (2022), p. 124-138 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/obituary-april-carter-1937-2022/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11123 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.179doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Swann, G. Brandon Review of Juha Suoranta: Militant Freire /G. Brandon Swann. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of the book Juha Suoranta: Militant Freire. "Critical scholar and adult education professor Juha Suoranta’s Militant Freire is an insightful text about Paulo Freire’s radical life. In 112 pages, it is easy to devour in a day. As a Finnish professor at the University of Tampere, Suoranta writes for an international audience. In the introduction, he illuminates an essential aspect of Pedagogy of the Oppressed: ‘Freire also taught me that education and social sciences were political phenomena and that a militant approach was needed’ (p. 9). This helped me to understand the classic work on critical education better. It changed my life even more than my initial reading of the book." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 2, (2022), p. 145-148 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-juha-suoranta-militant-freire/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11122 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2022 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.180doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Reid, Julian Swann, G. Brandon Review of 'Civil Disobedience From Nepal to Norway: Traditions, Extensions, and Civility' and more /Julian Reid and G. Brandon Swann. Journal of Resistance Studies2022 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of the book: Tapio Nykänen, Tiina Seppälä, Petri Koikkalainen (eds.): Civil Disobedience From Nepal to Norway: Traditions, Extensions, and Civility. Routledge, 2022 Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 8, no. 2, (2022), p. 139-145 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/civil-disobedience-from-nepal-to-norway/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11120 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2023 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.181doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Johansen, Jørgen Brown, Craig S. Editorial Volume 9, Number 1 - 2023 /Jørgen Johansen and Craig S. Brown. Journal of Resistance Studies2023 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Editorial Volume 9, Number 1 - 2023. Excerpt: "As this issue of the Journal of Resistance Studies goes to print, we are in the process of employing a new person to have the daily responsibilities for the editing process, the production, and the search for high-quality submissions to future issues." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 9, no. 1, (2023), p. 5-9 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/editorial-volume-9-number-1-2023/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11119 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2023 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.182doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Flyghed, Janne Conscription Refusal as Political Resistance /Janne Flyghed. Journal of Resistance Studies2023 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Since the law on universal conscription was passed 1901, there has been a debate in Sweden concerning how to deal with those who refuse military service. The state faces a dilemma: on the one hand maintaining the law on conscription, while on the other allowing the right to conscientious objection. The objective of this article is to scrutinize how the Swedish state has tried to solve this dilemma. At the beginning of the 20th century, those who refused to fulfill the fundamental duty of military service were not regarded as deserving any kind of legal protection. Their actions questioned the consensus on the need for a military defense, and therefore had to be punished. But it did not take long until this view was modified, and a law was established that opened up the option of community service for conscientious objectors. In that way, the legislators created a buffer in the conflict between pro-militarists and anti-militarists. As long as the objectors stayed in the buffer construction, they did not represent any threat towards military defense. On the contrary, they even served as proof that the state respected human rights. The opposition was in that manner divided into two parts; those who accepted community service and those who did not. The latter, who did not accept the state’s offer of community service, were sentenced to prison. Since 1901, the legislator’s main strategy to tackle opposition towards military defense has been a combination of co-optation via community service and repression via prison for those who do not accept that service. It has been of great concern for the lawmakers to keep the number of the latter, the total resisters, sentenced to prison as low as possible. If the number becomes too high, it will cause debate and criticism, both in pu… Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 9, no. 1, (2023), p. 10-29 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/conscription-refusal-as-political-resistance/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11114 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2023 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.183doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Tapia, Reynaldo Nonviolent Resistance in Bolivia’s Age of Neoliberalism /Reynaldo Tapia. Journal of Resistance Studies2023 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Bolivia presents a unique case of the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance aimed not only at countering neoliberal policies but also changing the power relations within the country. This article examines how nonviolent resistance was  implemented and transformed in Bolivia during six neoliberal administrations, from 1982 to 2003. The economic solutions touted by the Washington Consensus gave rise to the emergence of counter-hegemonic social movements that rejected and opposed Western ideals of neoliberalism. For a little over two decades and six Bolivian administrations, the government promoted these neoliberal policies of state deregulation, liberalization of trade, and the privatization of public enterprises. The imposed economic principles of neoliberalism provided the opportunity for mass mobilization of union workers, miners, campesinos, cocaleros, university students, political activists, and community leaders. From hunger strikes to road blockades, mass protests, and marches, this article describes the benefits and outcomes of nonviolent resistance campaigns and will detail how these nonviolent strategies were used to fight against government sponsored neoliberal economic reforms. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 9, no. 1, (2023), p. 30-59 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/nonviolent-resistance-in-bolivias-age-of-neoliberalism/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11112 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2023 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.184doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Ibsen, Hilde Engel-Hills, Penelope Jernbro, Carolina Structural violence and repertoires of resistance in South Africa /Hilde Ibsen, Penelope Engel-Hills and Carolina Jernbro. Journal of Resistance Studies2023 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier "South Africa is listed as one of the most unequal societies in the world. Communities in this country face the aftermath of apartheid segregation, coupled with present neoliberal development strategies that impede socio-economic improvements and profound societal change. This has brought rise to high-risk areas where people experience societal neglect and, drawing on Johan Galtung’s work, we argue that this neglect constitutes structural violence, understood as something natural ‘as the air around us’ that upholds inequality and injustice. Within this context, people are no longer willing to accept the status quo. Through ethnographic accounts, we explore over an extended time period how residents living in the particular community of Ocean View, on the Cape Peninsula, have developed repertoires of resistance, and how resistance tactics might impact social change. The analysis reveals how variants of constructive and everyday resistance work together in parallel and overlap, and it also provides deep contextual understanding about how the dynamics between different types of resistance have the potential for generating short- and long-term outcomes. Our empirical findings suggest that short-term outcomes included heightened solidarity within the community; people contributed to the building of individual capacity, and put pressure on those in power to react to the issues of neglect. Outcomes related to long-term effects are more complex, although one important finding is that resistance contains imagination and hope for a desired future. Thereby, our article contributes to the empirical categories of resistance studies and the call for in-depth analysis of possible outcomes." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 9, no. 1, (2023), p. 60-90 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/structural-violence-and-repertoires-of-resistance-in-south-africa/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11111 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2023 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.185doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Chabot, Sean Classical Book Review by Sean Chabot: Hind Swaraj, 1909 /Sean Chabot. Journal of Resistance Studies2023 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of: Mohandas K. Gandhi: Hind Swaraj, 1909 Excerpt: "When we think of people carrying on the legacy of Mohandas Gandhi, we tend to think of eloquent, charismatic, and popular male leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Vaclav Havel. Each of these prominent figures promoted mass participation in courageous nonviolent resistance to confront racial, political, and social injustices, and to reform or build modern forms of liberal democracy. Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule shows, however, that Gandhi’s primary concern was achieving individual, communal, and national swaraj or self-rule in the face of violent colonizing systems of modern Western civilization." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 9, no. 1, (2023), p. 91-102 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/sean-chabot-hind-swaraj-1909/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11110 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2023 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.186doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Tadrisi, Shima Review of 'Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring' by Asef Bayat /Shima Tadrisi. Journal of Resistance Studies2023 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of 'Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring' by Asef Bayat. Excerpt: "In Revolutionary Life, contrary to the standard narratives of revolutions, which demonstrate what happens at high levels of power, Asef Bayat describes what uprisings meant for subaltern groups in their daily lives in Egypt and Tunisia (Bayat, 2021, p.1)." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 9, no. 1, (2023), p. 109-115 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/revolutionary-life-the-everyday-of-the-arab-spring/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11109 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2023 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.187doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Sørensen, Majken Jul Review of the Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity /Majken Jul Sørensen. Journal of Resistance Studies2023 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of the book David Graeber & David Wengrow: the Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Excerpt: "For resistance researchers who want to bring their arguments up to date, Graeber and Wengrow’s book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity is compulsory reading, although like I did, readers might need to reconsider a lot of what they thought they knew. The last decades of archaeological and anthropological research have found that early human history is much more diverse, exciting, and complex than previously thought." Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 9, no. 1, (2023), p. 103-108 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history-of-humanity/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11040 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2023 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.188doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Choi, Jungmin Review of: Social Movements That Changed the World - 30 Stories of social change created by civil society /Jungmin Choi. Journal of Resistance Studies2023 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: The book 세상을 바꾼 공익활동 (Social Movements That Changed the World) is a collection of stories of South Korean non-profit organisations (NPOs) trying to create significant social change. Compiled over the past five years by the Seoul NPO Centre (the Centre), it is a historical collection of 30 cases from the last 30 years that detail social movements in a variety of fields. Activists and researchers who led or are familiar with the campaigns participate as authors, vividly conveying the situation and process at the time of the movement. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 9, no. 2, (2023), p. 133-148 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-social-movements-that-changed-the-world/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11038 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2023 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.189doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Dahlberg, Leif Review of Peter Weiss: The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975–1981) /Leif Dahlberg. Journal of Resistance Studies2023 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: The narrative frame of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance (Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, 1975–1981) is a description of the international antifascist resistance movement in the years 1937–1945, but it also extends the horizon outside this framework through historical reconstruction, intimation, and tacit inference. The novel is centred around the experiences of the nameless first-person narrator, who functions as a unifying perspective. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 9, no. 2, (2023), p. 113-132 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/review-of-peter-weiss-the-aesthetics-of-resistance-1975-1981/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11036 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2023 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.190doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Abrams, Benjamin Gardner, Peter 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 and Peter Gardner. Journal of Resistance Studies2023 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This paper discusses the roles played by physical objects in resistance, drawing on three case studies: the dismantling of the statue of King George III during the American Revolution, the burning of passbooks by anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and Just Stop Oil’s destruction of petrol pumps in 2022. Drawing on the ‘symbolic objects’ approach to resistance and collective action (Gardner and Abrams, 2023a), we contend that the statue, the passbook, and the petrol pump represent more than just passing features of the mise-en-scène of the act of resistance. Rather, the object takes on a life of its own, adopts new symbolic meanings, and emerges as a collaborator in resistance: something we term ‘symbolic recruitment’. We contend that the activities enacted upon these objects transformed their social connotations, with new narratives, emotions, and concepts coming to be attached to them. Across our three cases, we see forms of symbolic subversion taking place. The statue of King George III in New York, while initially standing for British monarchical power in the American colonies, was deconstructed and redeployed to oppose British rule. Passbooks in apartheid South Africa were a physical manifestation of the system of white domination; public passbook-burning protests recast the object as a symbol of Black liberation. The smashing of petrol pumps by UK-based climate movement Just Stop Oil transformed this banal object into a symbolic representation of ecocidal policymaking. Overall, we contend that resistant action ‘against’ symbolic objects offers ‘hot’ moments in which new meanings are formed, old meanings transformed, and semiotic alliances shifted, inducting them as prospective material collaborators in longer-running resistance struggles. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 9, no. 2, (2023), p. 78-112 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/resistance-with-and-against-symbolic-objects/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11034 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2023 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.191doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Dahlberg, Leif ‘Look at the happy bear here!’ The use of artivism in Extinction Rebellion Sweden /Leif Dahlberg. Journal of Resistance Studies2023 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier The article describes and analyses how the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) Sweden makes use of art as part of nonviolent direct actions, a form of action which often is referred to as artivism. The article is based on direct observations of actions, documented online chats, interviews with participants, and content analysis of films, photographs, and social media posts. The artivist actions were performed in Stockholm in 2020-2022. The interviews were made in the autumn 2022. The first part of the article is descriptive, presenting a series of artivist actions performed by the XR group. There is also a critical and historical discussion of politically engaged art and the use of art in activism. The second part of the article consists of a thematic analysis of the interview material. The article argues that artivism is important both as a means of communication and for the internal culture in the activist group. As a form of meaning-making, artistic creation challenges the ready-made framing of political issues. The artivist performance is a form of place-making, temporarily transforming the meaning of public space, setting the stage for a carnivalesque where climate activists can appear as Fossil Fuel Industry executives, openly revealing disinformation and Greenwashing campaigns. Artivist action constitutes a form of aesthetics of resistance, challenging hegemonic ideological representation. Many of the artivist actions performed by the XR group were satirical, where humour plays an important part. Humour is also important in other ways, to keep up the spirit and engagement of the activists, and to defuse possible tension with bystanders and representatives of law enforcement. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 9, no. 2, (2023), p. 40-77 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/look-at-the-happy-bear-here-the-use-of-artivism-in-extinction-rebellion-sweden/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11032 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2023 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.192doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Toscano, Javier Mobile commons: resisting through art, rethinking politics, resetting democracy /Javier Toscano. Journal of Resistance Studies2023 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier This article inquires about the resistance tactics enabled through artistic or aesthetic devices made possible by the ‘mobile commons’, that is, the resources produced by people on the move (mostly irregular migrants and refugees, or border-crossers). For that aim, the first part of the text presents and discusses the notion of the ‘commons’ and concentrates on examining the subset of the ‘mobile commons’. In a second step, the article examines a set of artistic devices based on complex mechanisms that mobilize images and self-styled documentary forms that perform over networked, organizational actions put forth by border-crossers. By analyzing how these materials function discursively and practically, how they interact and are interpreted, and especially how they construct sites of resistance, the research inquires into the limits and possibilities of artistic means to enable a sense of political performance, as well as into the theoretical challenges these set upon Western theories of democracy and political engagement. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 9, no. 2, (2023), p. 13-39 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/mobile-commons-resisting-through-art/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11030 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2023 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.193doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Brown, Craig S. Kessler, Sabeth Tucci, Ilaria Editorial /Craig S. Brown, Sabeth Kessler and Ilaria Tucci. Journal of Resistance Studies2023 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Excerpt: The papers included in this special all enhance the understanding of contribution of the arts to peace and resistance, as can be seen from the following brief summaries. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 9, no. 2, (2023), p. 5-12 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/editorial-2023/Open access 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11007 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2024 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.194doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Seppälä, Tiina Beyond Protest: Crafting Peace and Justice through Constructive Resistance /Tiina Seppälä. Journal of Resistance Studies2024 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier Review of the book by Majken Jul Sørensen, Stellan Vinthagen & Jørgen Johansen:Constructive Resistance: Resisting Injustice by Creating Solutions Rowman & Littlefield, 2023 Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 1, (2024), p. 118-124 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/beyond-protest-crafting-peace-and-justice-through-constructive-resistance/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11005 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2024 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.195doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Meyer, Matt Pan-Africanism as Progressive Panacea: Retooling the Visions of Revolutionary “Positive Action,” Ujamaa, and Ubuntu /Matt Meyer. Journal of Resistance Studies2024 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier 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 key text as evidence of the leading 20th century Pan-Africanist’s interest in and possible commitment to nonviolence. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 1, (2024), p. 105-117 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/pan-africanism-as-progressive-panacea/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11003 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2024 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.196doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Broeckerhoff, Aurélie Sulin, Laura Soliman, Mahmoud Darweish, Marwan ‘The Harvest is a Poem’: everyday practices as culture and resistance in the occupied Palestinian territory /Aurélie Broeckerhoff, Laura Sulin, Mahmoud Soliman and Marwan Darweish. Journal of Resistance Studies2024 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier 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 1980s, the creation of an Israeli closed military zone threatened them with displacement. Following decades of legal challenge, a recent court ruling to uphold the military zone is threatening the existence of the people and their way of life in Masafer Yatta (Bröckerhoff & Soliman, 2022). Over the last five years, as part of the ‘On Our Land’ project, Palestinian youth from Masafer Yatta were trained in oral history methodology to document and record stories about various aspects of cultural heritage and the way of life of this community, including pastoral and agricultural practices, storytelling, songs, arts, and embroidery. This paper examines these cultural practices through the analytical lens of everyday resistance. Through an analysis of songs sung during the harvest, we advance the argument that in restrictive contexts, everyday practices that are not politically articulated constitute a form of everyday resistance. The paper demonstrates an original contribution to how the upholding of everyday cultural practices in Masafer Yatta contributes to unintentional, yet consequential, everyday resistance in the maintenance of traditional lifestyles. It thus extends current debates in resistance and peace studies that have engaged primarily with an intentional use of culture for purposes of dissent. In doing this, we propose a grounded understanding of how culture and resistance are intertwined in everyday life. The people who made revolutions, like artisans, weavers, shoemakers, and so on, [...] ended up making revolutions in order to achieve what we consider non-revol… Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 1, (2024), p. 78-104 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/the-harvest-is-a-poem/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-11001 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2024 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.197doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Meyer, Matt Celebrating Johan Galtung, with Dignity not Deification /Matt Meyer. Journal of Resistance Studies2024 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier 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 Association conference held shortly after Galtung’s passing, in tribute to him and his legacy. Academic leaders from Sri Lanka, Argentina, China, and the US all spoke of the profound impact he had on us, both personally and professionally. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 1, (2024), p. 5-7 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/celebrating-johan-galtung-with-dignity-not-deification/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-10999 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2024 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.198doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Robertson, Matthew Populism, ‘Empty Signifiers’ and Indigenous Resistance in Canada /Matthew Robertson. Journal of Resistance Studies2024 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier 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 populism and empty signifiers of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe to Canadian Indigenous studies and finds that they present both pros and cons for Indigenous struggle. One major issue is that Canadian populist forms of politics may serve to marginalize Indigenous actors and lead them to feel misrepresented within related social movements. These movements commonly develop empty signifiers, which are vague terms that mean different things to different political actors, and which help to unite a ‘people’—the political agent that populist movements construct. Indigenous resistance movements may come to feel misrepresented by empty signifiers within populist movements led by other groups because their demands for sovereignty and decoloniality often become neglected within those movements. However, Indigenous resistance movements can strategically make use of empty signifiers to constitute a people or non-populist social movements that can challenge colonial institutions. I argue that any such movements would require careful strategizing between Indigenous and other social movements so as to ensure that Indigenous priorities are not marginalized. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 1, (2024), p. 8-43 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/populism-empty-signifiers-and-indigenous-resistance-in-canada/Access subject to subscription 00000nab a2200000 i 4500 jrs-10879 resistance-journal.org cr|||||||||||| 260910s2024 sw |||||o|||||||||| eng d 2003-3265 10.63961/2025.199doi resistance-journal.orgengresistance-journal.orgrda Carrer, Monica Vinthagen, Stellan ‘Everyday Constructive Resistance’: Exploring Bottom-Up Transformative Change /Monica Carrer and Stellan Vinthagen. Journal of Resistance Studies2024 texttxtrdacontent computercrdamedia online resourcecrrdacarrier 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 and an interdisciplinary literature review, this article proposes ‘everyday constructive resistance’ (ECR) as a framework for analysing how communities, through embodied actions, may contribute to constructing alternatives and challenging prevailing power structures, whether in the wider context of organised groups and institutions, or as informal efforts. This approach focuses on the perspectives and agency of people who experience directly the effects of violent power structures in their everyday lives; it interrogates how the processes of resistance could take into account embodied experiences, and what meaningful change may look like. Drawing from the findings of field work in contexts of social movements against violent state domination in India and Brazil, the ECR framework includes the five core elements of embodiment, construction of alternatives, power subversion, community needs, and community solidarity, which could be applied in different ways and to a variety of contexts. Taken together, we think that a framework of ECR serves as a way to develop and evaluate peacebuilding initiatives and resistance efforts to encourage their bottom-up dimension. Journal of Resistance Studies2003-3265Vol. 10, no. 1, (2024), p. 43-77 Print version:Journal of Resistance Studies2001-9947 https://resistance-journal.org/jrs_articles/everyday-constructive-resistance/Access subject to subscription