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Title

Resistance in everyday life : constructing cultural experiences / Nandita Chaudhary, Pernille Hviid, Giuseppina Marsico, Jakob Waag Villadsen, editors.

Publication

• Singapore : Springer, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Chaudhaury, Nandita
• Hviid, Pernille
• Marsico, Giuseppina
• Villadsen, Jakob Waag

Description

xxviii, 328 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This book is about resistance in everyday life, illustrated through empirical contexts from different parts of the world. Resistance is a widespread phenomenon in biological, social and psychological domains of human cultural development. Yet, it is not well articulated in the academic literature and, when it is, resistance is most often considered counter-productive. Simple evaluations of resistance as positive or negative are avoided in this volume; instead it is conceptualised as a vital process for human development and well-being. While resistance is usually treated as an extraordinary occurrence, the focus here is on everyday resistance as an intentional process where new meaning constructions emerge in thinking, feeling, acting or simply living with others. Resistance is thus conceived as a meaning-making activity that operates at the intersection of personal and collective systems. The contributors deal with strategies for handling dissent by individuals or groups, specifically dissent through resistance. Resistance can be a location of intense personal, interpersonal and cultural negotiation, and that is the primary reason for interest in this phenomenon. Ordinary life events contain innumerable instances of agency and resistance. This volume discusses their manifestations, and it is therefore of interest for academics and researchers of cultural psychology, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and human development.

Subjects

• Resistance (Philosophy)
• Resistance (Psychoanalysis)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Rhythms of resistance and existence: an introduction -- Section I. Cultural productions through resistance -- Cultural productions through resistance: an introduction to Section I -- Dalit women in India: crafting narratives of success -- The third gender and their identity in Indian society -- Trajectories of resistance and historical reflections -- Children finding their ways through life spaces: glimpses from the Indian ecology -- Adolescent dissent and conflict resolution in the Indian context -- Cultural scripts, dialogue and performance: creating processes for resistance and resolve -- Section II. Stability, conflict and renewal -- A history of resisting the concept of resistance in thinking about human thinking: an introduction to Section II -- Anjani: unspoken resistance -- Resisting but accepting ideology: making sense through doublethink -- Making meaning out of a lifetime: the life and times of Indira Gandhi -- The street art of resistance -- Resisting inequality but loving those cheap ironed shirts: Danish expatriates' experiences of becoming employers of domestic staff in India -- Children's resistance in the emergence of learning as leading activity: playfulness in the transformation of spaces of participation -- Section III. Resistance serves the transformation -- Resistance serves the transformation: an introduction to Section III -- Seeing imagination as resistance and resistance as imagination -- Classical Indian dance and the dancer: engaging with tradition and modernity -- Culture, gender and resistance: perspectives from India -- Oedipus meets Ganesha: a prospective psychoanalyst's encoutner with India -- Resisting early marriage - case study from tea gardens of Assam -- Women in Indian families: resisting, everyday -- Rhythms of resistance: a way forward.

Call Number

JFE 17-10439

ISBN

• 9811035806
• 9789811035807

OCLC

965347275

Title

Resistance in everyday life : constructing cultural experiences / Nandita Chaudhary, Pernille Hviid, Giuseppina Marsico, Jakob Waag Villadsen, editors.

Publisher

Singapore : Springer, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Chaudhaury, Nandita, editor.

Hviid, Pernille, editor.

Marsico, Giuseppina, editor.

Villadsen, Jakob Waag, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-10439