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- Alvinius, Aida, Docent, 1979-, et al.
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Do military leaders resist organizational challenges?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - Ed : Irene Publishing. - 2001-9947. ; 5:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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, by the 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 applying both resistance and acceptance. However, our main conclusion is that resistance to change stays within a culture of obedience.
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966, et al.
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Resistance Studies as an Academic Pursuit
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - 2001-9947. ; 3:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Journal of Resistance Studies Number 1 - Volume 3 - 2017 10 Resistance Studies as an Academic Pursuit Baaz 1 , Lilja 2 & Vinthagen 3 ABSTRACT Resistance is both a common and somewhat unusual concept. It appears often in political debates and the media. Members of various non-govern-mental 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, et cetera, is still rather divided and under-developed within academia. Hence, in spite of offer-ing 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 articula-tions as well as the ability of various activities to challenge political, legal, economic, social and cultural structures in society—ultimately to achieve ‘social change’
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- Dahlberg, Leif, Professor, 1962-
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"Look at the happy bear here!" : The use of artivism in Extinction Rebellion Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - 2001-9947. ; 9:2, s. 40-77
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 import- ant 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, set- ting 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, chal- lenging 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 en- gagement of the activists, and to defuse possible tension with bystanders and representatives of law enforcement.
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- Flyghed, Janne, 1953-
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Conscription Refusal as Pollitical Resistance
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - Sparsnäs : Irene publishing. - 2001-9947. ; 9:1, s. 10-29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the law on universal conscription was passed 1901, there has been adebate in Sweden concerning how to deal with those who refuse militaryservice. The state faces a dilemma: on the one hand maintaining the law onconscription, while on the other allowing the right to conscientious objection.The objective of this article is to scrutinize how the Swedish state has tried tosolve this dilemma. At the beginning of the 20th century, those who refused tofulfill the fundamental duty of military service were not regarded as deservingany kind of legal protection. Their actions questioned the consensus onthe need for a military defense, and therefore had to be punished. But it didnot take long until this view was modified, and a law was established thatopened up the option of community service for conscientious objectors. In thatway, the legislators created a buffer in the conflict between pro-militarists andanti-militarists. As long as the objectors stayed in the buffer construction, theydid not represent any threat towards military defense. On the contrary, theyeven served as proof that the state respected human rights. The opposition wasin that manner divided into two parts; those who accepted community serviceand those who did not. The latter, who did not accept the state’s offer of communityservice, were sentenced to prison. Since 1901, the legislator’s mainstrategy to tackle opposition towards military defense has been a combinationof co-optation via community service and repression via prison for those whodo not accept that service. It has been of great concern for the lawmakers tokeep the number of the latter, the total resisters, sentenced to prison as low aspossible. If the number becomes too high, it will cause debate and criticism,both in public and in the parliament. The lawmakers have responded bymodifying the prison sentence and changing the construction of the buffer.
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- Ibsen, Hilde, 1961-, et al.
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Structural violence and repertoires of resistance in South Africa
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - : Irene Publishing. - 2001-9947. ; 9:1, s. 60-90
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 on 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.
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- Johansson, Anna, et al.
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Editorial
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - 2001-9947. ; 4:2, s. 5-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Johansson Wilén, Evelina, 1985, et al.
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Resistance, Materiality and the Spectre of Cartesianism. A Contribution to the Critique of Feminist New Materialism.
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - Ed : Irene Publishing. - 2001-9947 .- 2003-3265. ; 4:2, s. 54-83
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An important camp within the emerging field of resistance studies has been characterised by a tendency to study and theorise 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 analyses 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 and humanity by granting agency to matter, feminist new materialism is led to sacrifice intentional action in a way that undermines core aspects of the emerging field of resistance studies.
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- Kirkegaard, Ane Marie Ørbø
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Glocal Resistance and De-colonisation: : Civil Society in Khatami’s Islam, Dialogue and Civil Society (2013) and its Relevance to our Reading of Popular Protest and Political Participation
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - : Irene Publishing. - 2001-9947. ; 6:2, s. 178-195
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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.
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- Kullenberg, Christopher, 1980
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Citizen Science as Resistance: Crossing the Boundary Between Reference and Representation
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - 2001-9947. ; 1:1, s. 50-77
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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.
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- Lilja, Mona, 1971, et al.
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Beyond “Individual” or “Collective” Resistance: A Critical Assessment towards an Agenda for Future Research on Dissent
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - 2001-9947. ; 8:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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.
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- Lilja, Mona, 1971, et al.
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Travelling Artefacts: The Role of Recognition, (Dis)Belongings, and Acts of Resistance
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - 2001-9947. ; 4:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper, by using manga comics and the veil as examples, argues that increased scholarly attention to artefacts involved in political struggles could add new insights to previous research on resistance and social change. The paper examines how the recognition of artefacts is entwined with different expressions and techniques of power and resistance. These artefacts, which are recognisable 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 some-times revolve around different artefacts. Artefacts become affective parts of resistance and mobilise people into assuming or rejecting communities, identity positions or subjectivities. The shifting discursive materialities of different artefacts make these items transformative and important factors in political struggles.
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- Martin, Brian, et al.
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Investigating Nonviolent Action by Experimental Testing
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - Ed : Irene Publishing. - 2001-9947. ; 3:2, s. 42-65
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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. Te experimental method, as widely used in scientifc 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. Tere are a number of obstacles to nonviolence experimentation, including lack of funding, ethical challenges, and opposition from various parties. Yet until experimental testing becomes routine, the full potential of nonviolent action will not be realized.
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- Shutzberg, Mani
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Literal Tricks of the Trade : The Possibilities and Contradictions of Swedish Physicians’ Everyday Resistance in the Sickness Certification Process
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - : Irene Publishing. - 2001-9947. ; 6:1, s. 8-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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.
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- Sørensen, Majken Jul
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Constructive Resistance : Conceptualising and Mapping the Terrain
- 2016
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - Ed : Irene Publishing. - 2001-9947. ; 2:1, s. 49-78
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- People living in systems of domination and exploitation resist in many different ways. Some modes of resistance build and experiment with alternatives to the present in various forms, from the small to the large, the hidden to the open. An overall term for these efforts is “constructive resistance,” which covers initiatives in which people start to build the society they desire independently of the dominant structures already in place. This is initiatives which not only criticise, protest, object, and undermine what is considered undesirable and wrong, but simultaneously acquire, create, built, cultivate and experiment with what people need in the present moment, or what they would like to see replacing dominant structures or power relations. Within peace and conflict studies, this has been approached through Gandhi’s concept of the constructive programme. In the anarchist and Marxists traditions and social movement literature, a related notion is prefigurative politics.
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- Vinthagen, Stellan, 1964
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A Resistance History of India
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - 2001-9947. ; 8:1
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Queer Hate and Dirt Rhetoric: An Ambivalent Resistance Strategy
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - 2001-9947. ; 3:1, s. 29-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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.
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