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Resistance
With images of protest and dissent widespread and frequently circulated in news broadcasts and social media posts, resistance to prevailing power structures seems to be an expected and regular feature of contemporary life. This entry explores how anthropology has linked … Continue reading
Resisting change: understanding obstacles to social progress
In this shortened excerpt from How Change Happens, Duncan Green, Oxfam Great Britain’s Senior Strategic Adviser, discusses the complexities behind social activism and breaks down the underlying factors that fuel the resistance to change. Systems, whether in thought, politics, or … Continue reading
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Critical Theory and Contemporary Social Movements – Conceptualizing Resistance in the Neoliberal Age
The advent of an unregulated and financial form of capitalism, combined with a sharp rise in income inequalities and economic insecurity since the 1970s, appears to pose, at first glance, a significant challenge for the relevance of the works of … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Critical theory, Critical thinking, Neoliberalism, Resistance, Social movements
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Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities
Resistance is normally thought of as a collective exercise of public political activity. In this article, Ball and Olmedo approach the question of resistance in a different way, through Foucault’s notion of ‘the care of the self’. Neoliberal reforms in … Continue reading
Posted in Educational policy, Foucault, Neoliberalism, Resistance, Self, Subjectivity
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