Reconceptualising Resistance

Abstract 

Multiple and intersecting crises – climate collapse, rising authoritarianism, escalating social inequalities, wars, and pandemics – have renewed attention to the necessity, urgency, and meaning of resistance. Contemporary forms of resistance range from high-visibility actions (attacking artworks, blocking motorways) to covert support networks (providing safe abortions, trans healthcare, or alternatives to corporate infrastructure) and collective power strategies (blockades, strikes, cyberattacks). Some movements focus on direct action and provocation (sabotaging pipelines), while others engage in everyday resistance (rejecting capitalist work culture) or build alternative institutions.  However, resistance itself is a vague term, used within a variety of domains and disciplines, and across empirical, theoretical, and normative registers. Does this disciplinary fragmentation limit our ability to recognise and comprehend forms of resistance today? ' 

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