Search Results for popular resistance

... China, this kind of politics is a departure from the usual straightforward forms of popular resistance, as typified by the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest. Fiasco is not just any kind of failure. It is a kind of flop with performative flair, where repeated malfunctions and blunders escalate in often...

... on Silwan's popular movements and their culture of resistance. Instead of viewing their resistance as reactionary or as an act of survival, the essay attempts to frame it as an active praxis. Silwan's collective movement's various means of manipulation—sumud, communal awareness, outreach, and the sit-in tent...

..., not just in the Arab world. Using concepts drawn from Jacques Rancière's work on discursive regimes, I show how the graffiti, chants, popular songs, video clips, signs, banners and dramatizations produced during the uprising wrench everyday discourses into an effective rhetoric of national resistance...

... of a capsular cure to the neglect of providing sanatorium care, addressing disease transmission, and curbing drug resistance. In response to Venkat’s essay, Paul Mason and colleagues highlight how a biomedical narrative about tuberculosis became deterritorialized from high-income countries where new...

...David Novak A new world of music has recently taken the North American experimental music scene by storm. In the late 2000s, a wave of labels like Sublime Frequencies and Parallel World and MP3 blogs like Awesome Tapes from Africa redistributed regional popular music recordings as “new old” media...

...Stefan Helmreich This article offers a history of the wave metaphor in social theory, examining how waves became rhetorical forms through which to think about the shape of social change. The wave analytic—“waves of democratization,” “waves of immigration,” “waves of resistance”—wavers between high...

...Melissa M. Valle This essay examines the ideological power of Carnival and the carnivalesque on the Colombian Caribbean Coast by circumnavigating the dominant narrative about these events as primarily stages to transgress social norms and resist authority. Instead, it explores whether blackface...

..., “What happens when people cannot build urban form or maintain what is left?” The answer is a form of popular resistance known as sumud , or “steadfast perseverance” in staying put. Sabbagh expands the term to “architectural sumud” because under occupation, “the very act of building becomes an extension...

... of identification that left them naked in the face of the Asiatic Registry’s grasp, opposition collapsed utterly in the early months of 1909.51 Popular resistance on the Witwatersrand, the source of so much hope and strength, had dwindled...

... resistance shifted from the refugee camps in Arab countries to the West Bank and Gaza under Israeli occupation and from the ethos of the heroic armed fida’i (freedom fighter) to a popular civil disobedience. The protesters embrace of folklore and peasant symbolism, such as wearing the kaffiyeh (checkered...

... and widespread. To interpret this phenomenon in terms of popular resistance is to oversimplify it. We may understand the logic of political humor in late socialism only if we analyze - in addition to the nar- rative structure of the anekdoty and the topics...

...” but in touring Washington in order to feel occasionally “free.” Yet a distinguished tradition of collective popular resistance to national policy has taken the form of marches on Washington: dispossessed workers, African- Americans, gays, lesbians, queers, pro- and antichoice activists, feminists...

... beliefs, sports, the arts of clothing are all - even necessarily - prac- tices of “resistance.” On the other hand, new cultural theories allow us to inquire how, by way of so-called popular practices, subaltern classes man- age to construct more or less autonomous spaces not in the margins...

... not do, however, is to read the encounter as the “popular bursts” most often read it: a context in which “resistance” is a far more modest practice than in our theoretical elaborations; where it is less an “overthrow” of a system than a “conquest” (i.e., mastery) of it (in the way we struggle...

..., Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, East Turkestan, and Taiwan.3 The authors tell us that this is a popular map in the West and have the “original” English-language version of this unraveling of China on the back cover, with a Chinese translation on the front cover. This map thus is taken as evidence...

... high from low, elite from popular culture. . . . Not mere exposure to power and oppression, but transformation of experi- ence into communicable expressions, is at the origin of popular culture as resistance to colonial...

... the actual members of the popular classes participate only through proxy? For Stuart Hall in England, the phenomenon of Thatcherism is at once more modest and more daunting than the global speculations taken on by Deleuze and Guattari, since historically it represents not a case of failed...

... culture as a site of competing tensions, but one in which resistance is nonetheless always already present. In this sense, RETORT’s surprisingly one-dimensional comment on post-9/11 popular culture — that this culture has exhibited only a deafening silence, an utter failure to address that event...

... across the Channel through various emissaries. Included among these were a mildly popular critique of Adam Smith on lending entitled Defence of Usury, and Bentham’s plan for a model prison, Panopticon, or The Inspection House and Panopticon...

...- Magnus Thorsén, Heather Bursheh, and David A. McDonald, eds. 2013. Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance since 1900 . Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Kim, Kyung Hyun, and Youngmin Choe, eds. 2014. The Korean Popular Culture Reader . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Mann...