European football fans’ resistance and protest in the face of legal restrictions: Towards a typology and continued research agenda

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 11, 2025

Scholars have established that European football represents an important domain for protest and resistance. While has undergone significant political, economic social transformations, supporters adopted various tools of resistance when faced with these processes. Legal restrictions security measures imposed on represent highly contested areas football. Although existing case studies affirm this, few attempts been made to organize the types fans’ into explorative typologies. Therefore, this article advances a typology supporters’ tactics strategies in face enhanced regulative mechanisms. Specifically, we unpack fanzines/e-zines/social media, symbols banners, direct boycott, fan congresses conferences linkages wider movements as employed by supporters. As argued, remains it not solely reveals breadth width but illustrates repertoires actors contesting what is, ultimately, effort control them. Relatedly, contributes continued research agenda relating processes juridification securitization and, broadly, resistant agency.

Language: Английский

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Dams, Diversions, and Development: Slow Resistance and Authoritarian Rule in the Salween River Basin

Antipode, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 55(6), P. 1662 - 1685

Published: March 14, 2023

Abstract We engage geography's longstanding debate on what “counts” as resistance by introducing slow to account for temporal‐political strategies against unjust developments, particularly under authoritarian conditions. draw over a decade of fieldwork in the Salween River Basin where dams and diversions have been proposed since 1979, including most recent iteration, Yuam water diversion project Northwest Thailand. find that impacted communities civil society encompasses slow, strategic, considered actions time generations. Such is necessarily protracted contest developments (re)proposed decades. By foregrounding strategic use temporality, we highlight often overlooked diverse range actors, showing how movements are incremental interconnected time, even when “under radar”. These key contesting (re)shaping conditions development Basin.

Language: Английский

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Theorising resistance in times of fossil fuels: Ecological grief, righteous anger and interaction rituals in Sweden's energy regime shift

Energy Research & Social Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 116, P. 103652 - 103652

Published: July 2, 2024

The emerging shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy engages a broad spectrum of society. Through protests, social media campaigns and civil unrest, different groups seek impact the speed, direction distributional effects this transformation. In paper, we develop conceptualisation how such resistance is socially mobilised. We ask people come resort open in context regime dynamics. growing literature on topic highlights that declining material capital are not enough understand times fuels. suggest study attention wider emotions crucial for understanding political ethical contestations through which changes provision materialize. draw upon sociological theory, particular notion interaction rituals, affective process resistance. concept rituals captures movement feeling aggrieved mobilisation sharing transformation emotions. apply our theorisation two Swedish examples contemporary – Forest Rebellion Petrol Protest illustrate grievances underpin these movements, mobilise justify end paper with discussion comparison examples, implications findings (academic) knowledge about role relation regimes.

Language: Английский

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Everyday Resistance in the U.K.’s National Health Service

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 20(3), P. 511 - 521

Published: Sept. 1, 2023

Resistance is a concept understudied in the context of health and healthcare. This part because visible forms social protest are sometimes understood as incongruent with professional identity, leading healthcare workers to separate their actions from working life. takes many forms, however, focusing exclusively on means more subtle everyday resistance likely be missed. The overarching aim this study was explore how enacted within workplace amongst sample twelve workers, based United Kingdom; exploring that such action took intersected In depth-interviews were conducted results analysed utilizing Lilja's framework (2022). Our findings suggest number direct confrontational acts, those which sought avoid power or create alternative prefigurative practices norms. These speak complexities, ambiguities, contradictions resistance, carried out by workplace. While acts had clear political motives, issues like climate change mind for example, participants also described act providing care itself could an resistance. saying something about our participants, said systems they worked. raise range normative issues. Perhaps needless say, there appears substantial scope expand interrogate apply idea

Language: Английский

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Refusal as a critique of the order of things: Bifurcations and utopian longings in contemporary rural France

European Societies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 39

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Abstract This text questions the ‘theoretical hegemony’ that seems to characterize concept of resistance when it comes assessing a challenge social organization or its guardians. Refusal, which is presented here as form constructive defiance, in fact proves be just relevant for this purpose, particularly understanding collective actions are non-confrontational but express critique order things. what ethnography utopian collectives established French countryside tends show. The women and men who compose them, individually driven by desire ‘no longer play game’, slip collectively, on certain occasions, into interstices order, acting together refuse social, political economic norms. Their ways doing things relationships they then can prefigure features ‘different future’.

Language: Английский

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NOvation and Indigenous struggle for land: Club Med’s failure in New Caledonia

Tourism Geographies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 21

Published: Jan. 11, 2025

Tourism development can significantly affect the environment and communities in popular travel destinations, often overpowering Indigenous peoples by sheer dominance of this economic sector. However, local population regain control over tourism a destination. This paper addresses research question how protect themselves as well their land from pressures mass tourism. More specifically, it analyzes example Kanak Isle Pines New Caledonia, who play key role island's development, ensuring aligns with cultural values norms. For example, no hotel be built on without consent customary authorities community. presents challenges to external investors like Club Méditerranée, pioneer all-inclusive resort model, an innovative approach hospitality. explores community's resistance Med's establishment 1970s, despite foreign government. To answer our question, we used ethnographic methods archival data analysis. Our findings reveal that tenure allows maintain ownership while preserving autonomy resources decision-making processes. The opposition Med was successful due three empowerment factors: broader recognition adherence law, emergence independence movement restitution claims, active involvement implementation projects. 'NOvative' – marked towards allowed community development. By adapting suit insular pace scale, they have demonstrated shape ways respect customs lifestyles.

Language: Английский

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Geopoetics as contentious politics: strategic relevance of the Miya poetry movement against the NRC-CAA in Assam, India

Third World Quarterly, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 20

Published: Jan. 12, 2025

How has the Miya poetry movement shaped trajectory of contentious politics against NRC-CAA (National Register Citizens-Citizenship (Amendment) Act-2019) in Assam? In an attempt to answer this question, study delves into nature and dynamics as one influential social movements National Citizens (NRC) Citizenship Act, 2019 (CAA) Assam. The geo-narratives centring on have expanded their activism space, demanding equal, just political-legal citizenship Assam other Indian states where ethnoreligious minorities subalterns long faced systematic exclusion ethnocratic repression since independence India. Based narrative discourse, seeks locate strategic relevance movement, a peaceful non-violent way resisting authoritarian exclusionary decisions state, counterstorytelling dominant narratives arrangements power. central argument is that become powerful tools used refuse Hindutva-based nationalism territoriality, which been infused by geopolitics

Language: Английский

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Grains of dust in the Aegean archipelago: Unruly migrants and everyday resistance in EU hotspots

Environment and Planning D Society and Space, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 21, 2025

This article centres the everyday resistance practices by illegalised migrants contained in EU hotspots Greece. Set against regime of violent abandonment governing these carceral spaces, draws on ethnographic research Aegean archipelago to explore how is enacted, experienced, and suppressed. The analysis foregrounds three distinct tactics – insubordination, insurrection, occupation whereby migrants, individually collectively, seek disrupt mechanisms. By shifting analytical focus migrants’ often barely visible dissenting practices, sheds new light modalities bio/necropolitical power intersect workings hotspots. It reveals transform spaces into stages (infra)political struggle forced confinement, even if they are unable fundamentally weaken hotspot as such. concludes that attending however fragile, fragmented, fleeting, critical. These not only unmask racialised violence resides at core but its inability fully contain desire for autonomous movement.

Language: Английский

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“You need to put on your own oxygen mask first”: considering extinction rebellion’s regenerative culture as a mode of constructive resistance

Journal of Political Power, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 20

Published: Feb. 11, 2025

Language: Английский

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When Urbanization Leads to Governance Beyond the State: Network of Actors Along an Urbanization Gradient in Bengaluru, India

International Journal of the Commons, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 19(1), P. 67 - 82

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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