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

Antipode, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 55(6), С. 1662 - 1685

Опубликована: Март 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.

Язык: Английский

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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, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 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.

Язык: Английский

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Editorial: Indigeneity and infrastructures of settler colonialism

Geographical Research, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 63(2), С. 214 - 220

Опубликована: Май 1, 2025

Язык: 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, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 116, С. 103652 - 103652

Опубликована: Июль 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.

Язык: Английский

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The ABC of resistance: towards a new analytical framework

Journal of Political Power, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 16(1), С. 59 - 80

Опубликована: Янв. 2, 2023

Two significant developments – (1) the rapidly changing world order, and (2) gaps in current social science scholarship call for a further exploration of resistance theories. In this paper, we identify some inconsistencies within bulk research, seek to contribute understanding resistance, its applications complexity. short, paper discusses three interacting supporting forms including various overlaps interlinkages between them, which together constitute what would like ABC resistance; that is, avoidance breaking constructive resistance.

Язык: Английский

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

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 20(3), С. 511 - 521

Опубликована: Сен. 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

Язык: 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, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 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.

Язык: 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, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 20

Опубликована: Фев. 11, 2025

Язык: Английский

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From resistance to acceptance and use of technology in academia

Open Praxis, Год журнала: 2013, Номер 5(2), С. 151 - 151

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2013

The phenomenon of faculty's resistance to use technology in higher education is the focus this research as a secondary reading existing relevant with purpose analyzing factors and finding solutions. This paper an excerpt from Doctoral dissertation focused on causes possible solutions re-think (Matrosova Khalil, 2011, 2012). It hoped that results study will contribute understanding factors, add development theoretical basis re-thinking resistance, create path for redirecting away psychological defensive behavior expressed by faculty. last aspect characterized part emotional behavioral which hopes transform negative positive attitude towards change.

Язык: Английский

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To Our Nurse Friends: An Ode to Resistance

Nursing Philosophy, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 26(1)

Опубликована: Ноя. 19, 2024

ABSTRACT The concept of resistance in nursing has been garnering more interest the last few years, with emerging focus on working conditions, power differentials clinical settings, health inequities, and planetary concerns. As a result, it's important to identify what is being resisted, purpose carried out. In whatever way referenced nursing, outright or not, it our contention that response same underlying cause, barring some local contextual variations, which we refer as ‘the Beast’, where real catastrophe societal, ‘existential, affective metaphysical’. It therefore seems coherent consider this macro from an ontological point view, is, standpoints ‘being’ relation world, necessarily refers specific ways apprehending reality. article, present two ontologies ‐ antagonistic every respect, better situate larger ecosystem. Using Invisible Committee's book call action To friends , modest contribution celebrate resistance, help equip fellow nurses organise strategize face incessant growth too often undesirable change healthcare.

Язык: Английский

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