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While many contemporary approaches focus on leadership as the explanatory variable,
A Cartography of Resistance expands the approach to include management and command of resistance movements - and of their opponents.
List of contents
- Part 1 Resistance in Theory
- 1: What is Resistance?
- 2: Why do (some) People Resist?
- 3: Organizing and Suppressing the Resistance
- Part 2. Resisting Roman Imperialism
- 4: Resisting Roman Imperialism in Gaul
- 5: Resisting Roman Imperialism in Germania
- 6: Resisting Roman Imperialism in Britannia
- Part 3. Resisting Slavery
- 7: Resisting Slavery in the British West Indies
- 8: Resisting Slavery in French Saint-Domingue/Haiti
- Part 4. Resistance at Work
- 9: The 1888 Match Workers' Strike and the Beginnings of New Unionism
- 10: Class and Gender Resistance in the British Post Office
- Part 5. Resisting the Nazis
- 11: German Resistance to Hitler
- 12: Dutch Resistance to the Germans
- Part 6. Resisting Military Traditions
- 13: Military Racism: Red Tails and the American 332nd Fighter Group
- 14: Military Patriarchy: Women Pilots in the British Air Transport Auxiliary
- Part 7. Resisting Colonialism and Imperialism
- 15: The British in Malaya
- 16: The Americans in Iraq
- Conclusion
- 17: Voiceless Subalterns: In Defence of the Missing
- 18: Vocal Superordinates: Rhetorical Tropes in Defence of Privilege
About the author
Keith Grint is Professor Emeritus at Warwick University where he was Professor of Public Leadership until 2018. He spent 10 years working in various positions across a number of industry sectors before switching to an academic career. Since becoming an academic he has held Chairs at Cranfield University and Lancaster University and was Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre. He spent twelve years teaching at Oxford University and was Director of Research at the Saïd Business School. He is a founding co-editor with David Collinson of the journal Leadership, and the International Studying Leadership Conference.
Summary
While many contemporary approaches focus on leadership as the explanatory variable, A Cartography of Resistance expands the approach to include management and command of resistance movements - and of their opponents.
