This book provides a broad and detailed theoretical exploration of resistance and the complexities of power and social change. Engaging with past and contemporary theoretical debates and drawing from the author's empirical research in Europe, the USA and South East Asia, the book both challenges the limits of existing conceptual paradigms and advances theoretical knowledge about resistance. The chapters illuminate subjects such as: reactive modes of opposition and 'against-ness', creative and future-oriented modes of resistance, cultural and digital resistance, the role of emotions in resisting, resistant epistemologies and radical imaginations, the commodification of 'rebelliousness', State and public responses to resistance, and the significance of moments of confrontation between power and its opposition. By doing so, the work elucidates not only how and why people resist or why they don't but also how conceptualising resistance enables us to understand contemporary social, cultural and political conflicts and cleavages.

An in-depth exploration of past and contemporary theoretical debates on resistance Advances an original theoretical and conceptual approach toward the study of 'resistance' Drawing from unique empirical research on activism and resistance in Europe, the USA and South East Asia

Autorentext

Laura K. Naegler, PhD, is a critical cultural criminologist based at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is also the author of the research monograph Gentrification and Resistance: Cultural Criminology, Control, and the Commodification of Urban Protest in Hamburg (2012, LIT Verlag).

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Modes of Resistance.- Chapter 3: Cultural Resistance.- Chapter 4: Emotion, Risk and Edgework-Resistance.- Chapter 5: Epistemologies of Resistance and Imagination.- Chapter 6: Moments of Confrontation.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.