Researching Resistance and Social Change

Mikael Baaz is Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies and a Senior Lecturer inInternational Law at the School of Business, Economics and Law, the University ofGothenburg.Mona Lilja is a Professor in Sociology at Karlstad University.Stellan Vinthagen is Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and CivilResistance and Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

This is an important book that fills a needed ‘hole’ in our understandings of power and resistance. One of its strengths is the consistent focus on how resistance itself is productive of further resistance…. I would recommend it to advanced undergraduate classes in globalization because often those classes only tell students about the oppressive and destructive aspects of global power relations; students come out of those classes depressed and cynical. This book is a needed corrective. Upper division political science and sociology classes on social change could use this book as required reading.

• 1. Introduction: Resistance Studies as an Academic Pursuit / 2. Defining and Categorising “Resistance” / 3. Sovereign Power, Disciplinary power and Biopower: Resisting what Power with what Resistance / 4. How Resistance Encourages Resistance: Theorising the Nexus between Power, “Organised Resistance” and “Everyday Resistance” / 5. Exploring “Irrational” Resistance /6. Affects and Resistance Studies /. Fighting with and against the Time: The “Queering” of Time as Resistance /8. Moral Compulsions, Everyday Resistance and Ethical Research /9. The Ethical Aspects of the “Strategy of Legal Rupture” as Resistance / 10. Conclusion