In a time of renewed interest in insurrectionary movements, urban protest, and anti-austerity indignation, the idea of resistance is regaining its relevance in social theory. Re-examining resistance as a concept that can aid social analysis, this book highlights the dangers of pathologising resistance as illogical and abnormal, or exoticising it in romanticised but patronising terms. From feminist studies to plaza occupations and anti-systemic uprisings, there is an emerging need to connect the analysis of contemporary protest movements under a broader theoretical re-examination. This book was originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.
In a time of renewed interest in insurrectionary movements, urban protest, and anti-austerity indignation, the idea of resistance is regaining its relevance in social theory. De-Pathologizing Resistance re-examines resistance as a concept that can aid social analysis, highlighting the dangers of pathologising resistance as illogical and abnormal, or exoticising it in romanticised but patronising terms. Taking a de-pathologising and de-exoticising perspective, this book brings together insights from older and newer studies, the intellectual biographies of its contributing authors, and case studies of resistance in diverse settings, such as Egypt, Greece, Israel, and Mexico. From feminist studies to plaza occupations and anti-systemic uprisings, there is an emerging need to connect the analysis of contemporary protest movements under a broader theoretical re-examination. The idea of resistancewith all of its contradictions and its dynamismprovides such a challenging opportunity. This book was originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.
1. On De-Pathologizing Resistance
2. The Ethnography of Resistance Then
and Now: On Thickness and Activist Engagement in the Twenty-First Century
3.
Upending Infrastructure: Tamarod, Resistance, and Agency after the January
25th Revolution in Egypt
4. Resistance and the City
5. The Ambivalence of
Anti-Austerity Indignation in Greece: Resistance, Hegemony and Complicity
6.
Indigenous Autonomy, Delinquent States, and the Limits of Resistance
7. Too
Soon for Post-Feminism: The Ongoing Life of Patriarchy in Neoliberal America
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent. He has conducted research in Panama and Greece, focusing on processes of resistance, exoticisation, authenticity, tourism, environmentalism, and the politics of cultural representation and protest. He is author of Troubles with Turtles (2003), and Exoticisation Undressed (2016); and editor of When Greeks Think about Turks (2007), United in Discontent (2010), Great Expectations (2011), De-Pathologising Resistance (2015) and Against Exoticism (2016).
