De-Pathologizing Resistance: Anthropological Interventions

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

2017年10月 · Routledge

電子書

148

頁

符合資格

評分和評論未經驗證瞭解詳情

關於本電子書

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 resistance—with all of its contradictions and its dynamism—provides such a challenging opportunity. This book was originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.

關於作者

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is a Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. He has conducted research in Greece and Panama, and published extensively on topics that examine processes of resistance, exoticisation, indigeneity, authenticity, and the politics of cultural representation and protest. His latest research project examines the social consequences of the financial crisis.