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. Re-examining resistance as a concept that can aid social analysis, this book highlights the dangers of pathologising resistance as illogical and abnormal, or exoticising it in romanticised but patronising terms. 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. This book was originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.