De-Pathologizing Resistance
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 pathologizing resistance as illogical and abnormal, or exoticising it in romanticised but patronising terms. Taking a de-pathologizing 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 resistancewith all of its contradictions and its dynamismprovides such a challenging opportunity. This book was originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.
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.
De-Pathologizing Resistance
Anthropological interventions
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Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
First published 2015
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Contents
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Jacqueline Urla and Justin Helepololei
Julia Elyachar
Dan Rabinowitz
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
John Gledhill
Sherry B. Ortner
The chapters in this book were originally published in History and Anthropology, volume 25, issue 4 (October 2014). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
On De-Pathologizing Resistance
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
History and Anthropology, volume 25, issue 4 (October 2014) pp. 415430
Chapter 2
The Ethnography of Resistance Then and Now: On Thickness and Activist Engagement in the Twenty-First Century
Jacqueline Urla and Justin Helepololei
History and Anthropology, volume 25, issue 4 (October 2014) pp. 431451
Chapter 3
Upending Infrastructure: Tamarod, Resistance, and Agency after the January 25th Revolution in Egypt
Julia Elyachar
History and Anthropology, volume 25, issue 4 (October 2014) pp. 452471
Chapter 4
Resistance and the City
Dan Rabinowitz
History and Anthropology, volume 25, issue 4 (October 2014) pp. 472487
Chapter 5
The Ambivalence of Anti-Austerity Indignation in Greece: Resistance, Hegemony and Complicity
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
History and Anthropology, volume 25, issue 4 (October 2014) pp. 488506
Chapter 6
Indigenous Autonomy, Delinquent States, and the Limits of Resistance
John Gledhill
History and Anthropology, volume 25, issue 4 (October 2014) pp. 507529
Chapter 7
Too Soon for Post-Feminism: The Ongoing Life of Patriarchy in Neoliberal America
Sherry B. Ortner
History and Anthropology, volume 25, issue 4 (October 2014) pp. 530549
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Julia Elyachar is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. Her research revolves around a set of problems at the intersection of political economy, social theory, Middle Eastern studies, and anthropology. Her first book, Markets of Dispossession: NGOS, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo, was awarded the Sharon Stephens first book prize by the American Ethnological Society in 2007.
John Gledhill is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK. He is a specialist on Latin America and his research interests are in political, economic and historical anthropology. His latest book is The New Wars Against the Poor: Social Justice and Securitization in Latin America.
Justin Helepololei is a Graduate Student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. His current research explores the expansion of treatment and re-entry programs in US jails.
Sherry B. Ortner is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA. Her most recent book is Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream.
Dan Rabinowitz is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Head of the Porter School of Environmental Studies. He wrote the first comprehensive book in Hebrew about global warming and a groundbreaking book about the Cross-Israel Highway. From 1997 to 2000 he served as Chair of the Israeli Anthropological Association.
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.
