Everyday Resistance ” : Exploration of a Concept and its Theories
Everyday Resistance ” : Exploration of a Concept and its Theories
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日常抵抗”:概念及其理论的探索
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2013
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Anna Johansson
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Stellan Vinthagen;Anna Johansson
This article explores the concept and theories of “everyday resistance”, and develops a theoretical framework that aims to develop studies of resistance in everyday life. Since James C. Scott introduced this concept in 1985, research has grown within partly overlapping fields – mainly subaltern, feminist, cultural, queer, peasant and poststructural studies – thus warranting clarifications of this relatively elusive concept. Theories within emerging “resistance studies” differ but they agree that resistance is an oppositional act. Like all acts, resistance is situated in certain time, space and relations, and engages with different (types of) actors, techniques and discourses. Therefore, articulations of oppositional acts will be plural. Our discussion of contemporary studies makes it possible to develop some proposals: (1) Everyday resistance is a practice (neither a certain consciousness, intent, recognition, nor an outcome); (2) It is historically entangled with (everyday) power (not separated, dichotomous or independent); (3) Everyday resistance needs to be understood as intersectional as the powers it engages (not engaging with one single power relation); and (4) It is heterogenic and contingent due to changing contexts and situations (not a universal strategy or unitary action form). Thus, the heterogenic and contingent practice of everyday resistance is, due to its entanglement with and intersectional relations to power, discursively articulated by actors, targets and observers; sometimes as “resistance” and sometimes not. However, it might be necessary to identify everyday resistance also when parties themselves call it something else. Further development of our understanding of everyday resistance warrants systematic research programs that are engaged with both critical conceptual-theory discussions and specific empirical case studies.