De-Pathologizing Resistance: Anthropological Interventions

Author:   Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent, Canterbury, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138930247


Pages:   142
Publication Date:   29 July 2015
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent, Canterbury, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138930247


ISBN 10:   1138930245
Pages:   142
Publication Date:   29 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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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).

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