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This book reflects upon the implications, social relevance, and ethical challenges of the growing field of Resistance Studies.
List of contents
Introduction: One, Ten, Thousands of Resistances and How to Make Sense of Them. Sarah Murru and Abel Polese
PART I. What Happens in the Everyday?
Chapter 1. Militant Laughter: Play and Resistance in Italian Anti-High Speed Rail Protests. Mateusz Laszczkowski
Chapter 2. Everyday Acts of Citizenship: Infrapolitical Resistance and its Political Consequences in the Age of Social Media. Bojan Bäa
Chapter 3. Everyday Resistances in Gentrifying Contexts. Sandra Annunziata and Clara Rivas-Alonso
Chapter 4. Resistance Meets Prefiguration: Understanding Prefiguration and a Critical Analysis Towards the (Im)Possibilities for Practicing Hope. Mónica Soares and Sergio Martín Tapia Argüello
Chapter 5. This Is Our Home: Everyday Resistance of the Palestinians in Israel 1948-66. Marwan Darweish
PART II. What is in a Study of Resistance?
Chapter 6. Resistance as Repoliticization: The Resistance Movement Against the Mega-Prison Project in Brussels. Jérôme Pelenc
Chapter 7. Resistance to the New Green Revolution in Africa: The Revenge of Lives Over Norms. Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka and An Ansoms
Chapter 8. Drawing from Feminist Epistemologies to Research Resistance: The Case of Single Moms in Hanoi. Sarah Murru
Chapter 9. Dalit Responses to the Caste System: Rethinking Resistance. George Kunnath
Chapter 10. Research and the Lack of Politics. Cultural Resistance and the Troubled Times in Poland. Jacek Drozda
Ending Remarks: On Violence and the 'Scholar-Activist' Debate. Sarah Murru
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Edited by Sarah Murru and Abel Polese
Summary
This book reflects upon the implications, social relevance, and ethical challenges of the growing field of Resistance Studies.
