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    Everyday Forms of Resistance

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    "They're tough, these women!" : the everyday resistance of Aboriginal women to dehumanization by government agencies

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    By way of a series of narrative oral histories, focus group and interviews with Aboriginal Elders, this thesis examines the everyday resistance of Aboriginal women to dehumanization by government agencies. The dehumanization of these Aboriginal women occurs when they are denied their basis human rights guaranteed in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Dehumanization is manifest as the denial of basic subsistence needs, poor treatment in the form of abuse, harassment and discrimination, and the denial of self-determination. Dehumanization is met with resistance in an attempt to restore humanity. Everyday forms of resistance are small acts of daily personal resistance which do not usually challenge the prevailing social order. They are based upon a complex subaltern ideology expressed in private transcripts which are usually hidden from the dominant group. Aboriginal women use the private transcripts as the ideological basis for at least three forms of everyday resistance: direct, indirect and hidden. With direct resistance the private transcript emerges, with indirect resistance a third-party mediates the emergence of partial private transcript and with hidden resistance the private transcript remains hidden. Aboriginal woman also base their resistance on a reciprocal relationship of empowerment between themselves and their communities which becomes more powerful as they age. The increase in the quality of the reciprocal community–individual empowerment leads to evolution in the quality of everyday resistance strategies, from relatively inefficient emotion-based reactions to more efficient and well-developed strategies

    Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-making

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    Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-making addresses debates on the liberal peace and the policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. Examining the case of ‘Africa’s World War’ in the DRC, it locates resistance in the experiences of war, peacebuilding and state-making by exploring discourses, violence and everyday forms of survival as quotidian acts that attempt to challenge or mitigate such experiences. The analysis of resistance offers a possibility to bring the historical and sociological aspects of both peacebuilding and the case of the DRC, providing new nuanced understanding on these processes and the particular case. The book also makes a significant contribution to the theorisation of resistance in International Relations

    Negotiating Powerlessness : Everyday Forms of Resistance among Filipino Domestic Workers in Malaysia

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    The international migration of labour is an important feature in the world economy today. Malaysia is a typical example of a country that heavily relies on foreign workers to fill in jobs in the services sector. With this, Malaysian homes also employ foreign domestic workers to carry out the social reproductive functions performed earlier by Malaysian women who now actively participate in the labour force. This is a study of power relations between actors of transmigration and the Filipino domestic workers in Malaysia. It looks at the issue of powerlessness of women workers in the domestic employment, and examines the daily forms of resistance against conditions of powerlessness. The central argument that runs through this study is that powerlessness is embedded in the socio-cultural structure of society which stifles their interests as women. This qualitative study involves 64 Filipino domestic workers who have been working in Malaysian households. Observations are drawn from a year-long immersion and interview with domestic workers, five employers and four employment agents and embassy staff as well as informal conversations with those who are involved in migrant issues. A triangulation of interview, observation and focus group discussion was used to gather information from the informants. Findings revealed that globalisation has intensified the movement of Filipino workers, especially women, across countries where domestic employment is available and made women more visible in the international division of social reproductive labour. Such visibility is viewed in terms of their physicality but is not translated in terms of their increasing empowerment as social actors in migration. Filipino women's propensity to migrate is gendered and is reflective of the subordinate position they are placed in Philippine society. This study also shows that women domestic workers are powerless right from the beginning of the migration process, when they start their domestic work in Malaysia, and until their eventual return in the home country. The condition of powerlessness is pervasive at the level of relations with employers and the society at large, made worse by the fact that they are foreign domestic workers. This condition of powerlessness also made them aware of the conscious resistance that has becomethe workers way of life thereby employing strategies and tactics to surmount whatever personal and employment-related problems. This study concludes that Filipino domestic workers are conscious of the different realms of powerlessness they experience through their own social network to the extent that daily forms of resistance are not developed on their own but shared collectively by the social network. Patterns of resistance are simply reactionary measures against exploitation and abuse and they do not feature transformative ways in order to subvert powerlessness; although, at the same time, these may empower them. More often, the daily forms of resistance tend to reinforce and strengthen their own powerlessness they actively participate. Legal protection for foreign domestic workers should be a concern of the Malaysian government in order to protect the interests of all related parties

    Book review: Women’s political activism in Palestine: peacebuilding, resistance, and survival by Sophie Richter-Devroe

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    In Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival, Sophie Richter-Devroe explores how Palestinian women have practised creative and often informal forms of everyday political activism and resistance. This rigorous, lively and thought-provoking text sits among the finest social scientific works on contemporary Palestine in recent years, writes Mark Griffiths. Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival. Sophie Richter-Devroe. University of Illinois Press. 2018

    Ku Village in transformation: a case study of village politics in Post-Mao China.

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    Hok-bun Ku.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (leaves [194-201]).List of Tables --- p.iList of Illustrations --- p.iAbstract --- p.iiAcknowledgement --- p.ivChapter Chapter One: --- Introduction --Bringing the Peasants Back In --- p.1Chapter I. --- Sister Ling's Story --- p.1Chapter II. --- Where are the Peasants --- p.3Chapter III. --- "Back to the Village, Search for the Peasants" --- p.8Chapter IV. --- Summary of the Thesis --- p.14Chapter Chapter Two: --- Understanding the Local Politics of Rural China --- p.16Chapter I. --- State-Society in Communist China --- p.17Chapter II. --- State and Its Agents --- p.19Chapter III. --- Socialist Clientelism in Rural China --- p.23Chapter IV. --- Everyday Forms of Resistance in Village --- p.28Chapter V. --- The Changing Village Politics under Deng --- p.33Chapter Chapter Three: --- Legacy of the Past --Ku Village under Mao --- p.40Chapter I. --- Setting of Ku Village --- p.42Chapter II. --- Reconstructing the Old Political Economy --- p.45Chapter III. --- Socialist Clientelism in Ku Village --- p.54Chapter IV. --- Conclusion --- p.70Chapter Chapter Four: --- The Ku Village in Transformation (I) --The Retreat of the State --- p.77Chapter I. --- Reconstructing the Rural Administrative Organization --- p.78Chapter II. --- Local Response to the Political Reform --- p.82Chapter III. --- Paralysis of Village Organs --- p.88Chapter IV. --- Conclusion --- p.98Chapter Chapter Five: --- The Ku Village in Transformation (II) --The Source of Peasant Power --- p.103Chapter I. --- The Responsibility System and Land Redistribution in Ku Village --- p.105Chapter II. --- Political Economy of Shatian Shaddock Plantation --- p.112Chapter III. --- Conclusion --- p.125Chapter Chapter Six: --- Everyday Forms of Struggle in the Ku Village --- p.130Chapter I. --- Everyday Forms of Resistance I --Defensive Action --- p.132Chapter II. --- Everyday Forms of Resistance I -- Offensive Action --- p.147Chapter III. --- Everyday Struggle of the Village Cadres --- p.156Chapter IV. --- Conclusion --- p.161Chapter Chapter Seven: --- Conclusion -- From Socialist Clientelism to Household Individualism --- p.164Chapter I. --- The Erosion of Patron-Client Bonds --- p.165Chapter II. --- Household Individualism -an Atomistic Community --- p.170Chapter III. --- Everyday Forms of Resistance as the Way of Peasant Life --- p.172Chapter IV. --- Rethinking Village Politics in Dengist China --- p.174Appendix A. List of Interviewees --- p.179Appendix B. Glossary --- p.180Appendix C. Note on Measures --- p.183Appendix D. Photos --- p.184Appendix E. Maps --- p.193Bibliograph

    Dosezi i granice simboličkog otpora. „Proza u trapericama” u kontekstu jugoslavenskog socijalizma

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    The main thesis of the paper implies the historically changeable characteristics of symbolical resistance in the texts of „jeans prose” (Flaker). Using jeans as a symbol of global popular culture, freedom, casualness, the American lifestyle, resistance to forms, rules, and high culture etc., jeans prose had its specific life in Yugoslav socialism which dynamically changed during the last three decades of socialist Yugoslavia. In the early sixties it was a symbolic place of critique of dominant socialist ideology and in later period, in a more commercial orientated Yugoslav society when jeans as commodity became a part of everyday life, jeans prose lost its primal rebel energy and malted into the culutral mainstream.The main thesis of the paper implies the historically changeable characteristics of symbolical resistance in the texts of „jeans prose” (Flaker). Using jeans as a symbol of global popular culture, freedom, casualness, the American lifestyle, resistance to forms, rules, and high culture etc., jeans prose had its specific life in Yugoslav socialism which dynamically changed during the last three decades of socialist Yugoslavia. In the early sixties it was a symbolic place of critique of dominant socialist ideology and in later period, in a more commercial orientated Yugoslav society when jeans as commodity became a part of everyday life, jeans prose lost its primal rebel energy and malted into the culutral mainstream

    James C. Scott, Weapons of the weak. Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

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    Dans Weapons of the weak. Everyday forms of peasant resistance, James C. Scott s’interroge sur la résistance paysanne pacifique, tout en explorant le débat sur l’hégémonie et la fausse conscience. Cette réflexion est fortement liée à une approche empirique, car elle est le fruit d’un travail anthropologique réalisé entre 1968 et 1980, à Sedaka, fausse identité donnée à un petit village situé en Malaisie, où soixante-dix familles paysannes travaillent à la production du riz. Weapons of the wea..

    Sri Lankan housemaids in Lebanon: a case of 'symbolic violence' and 'everyday forms of resistance'

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    "Unraveled in this book are the real dynamics at stake in the Madame/housemaid relationship. While cases of extreme physical abuse by the Lebanese women who hire housemaids - Madames - are an exception, what has become normalised are more insidious patterns of domination used to control each and every aspect of their employees' lives. For their part, Sri Lankan housemaids are not merely passive victims. Away from direct provocation and first-hand repercussions, they try to deflect what Pierre Bourdieu has called 'symbolic violence'. These attempts at 'everyday forms of resistance', as defined by James Scott, can help loosen their employers' grip. Yet, as this unprecedented study shows, the Madame/housemaid relationship and the rules that govern it remain under the managerial hold of the Madame." [author's abstract]Veel Sri Lankese vrouwen werken in Libanon als werkster bij Libanese gezinnen. Vaak worden deze werksters mishandeld door hun werkgeefsters. Voor het eerst brengt Nayla Moukarbel dit onderwerp aan het licht en toont aan dat fysiek geweld niet zo vaak voor komt als de Libanese media suggeren. Tegenwoordig wordt eerder een indirecte vorm van mentaal of zogenaamd 'symbolisch' geweld toegepast. De werkster wordt hierbij gedwongen zich volledig aan te passen aan de eigen en wensen van de zogenaamde 'madame'. Moukarbel laat zien dat werksters op een net zo indirecte manier verzet bieden tegen deze dominantie
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