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Martin Butler, Paul Mecheril, Lea Brenningmeyer (eds.)
Resistance
Resistance
Subjects, Representations, Contexts
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Introduction
Coming to Terms—On the Aim and Scope of this Volume
Martin Butler, Paul Mecheril & Lea Brenningmeyer | 7
Resistance
Carl von Ossietzky, Alber t Leo Schlageter, and Mahatma Gandhi
Micha Brumlik | 17
Images of Protest
On the “Woman in the Blue Bra” and Relational Testimony
Kathrin Peters | 135
        If we, for the time being, allow ourselves to accept this notion of
    resistance as a mode of intervention based on a specifically normative
    rationale, through which the demand to overcome situations of
    disadvantaged and disregard is both legitimized and articulated, we are
    indeed able to spot a number of contexts in different parts of the world,
    in which both discourses and practices of resistance have resurged. In
    these different contexts, forms of resistance have taken different shapes,
    but are all more or less driven by either an intuitive or an explicit notion
    of injustice and justice: Whereas in western societies, it is indeed the
    (discourse on the) crisis of global capitalism, along with a general loss
    of trust in institutionalized politics, which is regularly held responsible
    for the recent emergence of new movements of protests and resistance,
    in regions such as Northern Africa, political uprisings have commonly
    been regarded as a reaction long overdue to totalitarian regimes and their
    infrastructures of oppression and control. The uprisings in Ukraine in
    2014, Occupy Gezi in 2013, and the protests in Northern Africa known as
    the so-called Arab Spring starting in 2010, for instance, were considered
    to be (and fashioned themselves as) acts of resistance against structures
    of governmental dominance and control to an extent which seriously
    threatened and harmed the individual citizen’s rights. With the disclosure
    of practices of surveillance through national secret services such as the
    NSA, by the way, or the most recent debates on the hacking of the US
    American election procedures by Russian activists, similar mechanisms of
    power have been made visible in western societies, which, in turn, are said
    to have enhanced tendencies towards civil disobedience and resistance.
        Finally, the election of Donald Trump into the office of the American
    Presidency has so far not only fueled the debate on the rationale of
    democratic rule both in the US and in other parts of the world, but has also
    contributed to a more or less explicit turn towards nationalist and racist
    ideologies and politics across Europe—political debates and elections, e.g.,
    in Austria, France, or the Netherlands give ample proof of this tendency.
    Moreover, it has also triggered movements of predominantly anti-capitalist
    opposition promoting social equality and/or environmental justice both in
    institutionalized politics and in less formal or informal ways and forms
    on the spot. In other words, resistance, it seems, has again become a
    viable option to confront a government, the formation and constitution of
    which has not seldom been referred to as an articulation of resistance in
    itself—i.e., against political corruption, against institutionalized politics
                                                                 Introduction    9
which had been accused of forgetting the needs and demands of the white
working class men whom Trump has so ineloquently but efficiently sided
with during his campaign. Both Trump’s fashioning of himself as the
leader of a movement that was born out of resistance against the political
establishment, and the emergence of anti-Trump movements which set
out to resist this resistance at the very same time, may be indicative of
a more general concern, i.e., the mistrust in the workings of capitalist
democracies. This mistrust, then, which can be traced both in so-called
right-wing and in left-wing rhetoric, has perhaps been the breeding
ground for Trump’s landslide victory, and has equally contributed to
the emergence of new forms of resistance in the recent past, such as the
Occupy movement, the student protests revolving around the issue of
‘safe space’ at US American universities, or, more recently, and in direct
opposition to Trump’s agenda, the ‘March of Science’ or the ‘Women’s
March on Washington.’
    It is this resurgence of resistance, then, which has perhaps been
the central motivation for this collection of essays, which takes these
developments as a starting point to explore phenomena of resistance in
different historical and contemporary contexts from an interdisciplinary
and transcultural perspective. To be sure, in the recent past, there has
been a lot of scholarly concern with resistance in a number of volumes (cf.,
e.g., Byrne; Critchley; Douzinas; Dutta; Skyes; Welzer), the publication of
which, just like in our case, has most probably been motivated by forms and
events of political opposition in different parts of the world. The essays in
this collection set out to add to this ongoing discussions and reflections, as
they not only shed light on different subjects, representations, aesthetics,
and contexts of resistance, but also, and perhaps more importantly, add
to a theoretical discussion of terms and concepts of resistance by—albeit,
at times, more implicitly—addressing the following questions: 1. What
is ‘resistance’? 2. On which normative grounds do forms of resistance
work, how are they legitimized? 3. How is resistance represented and/or
mediated, and in how far can representations be considered to be resistant?
4. Who uses the term/concept of ‘resistance’? When, where, and for what
purposes? In order to approach these questions, the essays collected in
this volume take different routes in their exploration of resistance. They
approach resistance on a theoretical level, investigate into different
conceptualizations of resistance in different historical settings, and/or
work on a range of different case studies taken from a variety of contexts
10   Mar tin Butler, Paul Mecheril & Lea Brenningmeyer
     between popular culture and resistance are shaped by the specific socio-
     cultural contexts in which they emerge; it also provides the ground for
     identifying a number of desiderata for investigating into phenomena of
     resistance in the field of “empirical popular culture research.”
         Based on and referring to Herbert Marcuse’s critical theory, Rainer
     Winter focuses on the idea of ‘one-dimensionality.’ Arguing for the still
     prevalent importance of this approach—especially when dealing with
     questions of the meaning and the role of resistance—he discusses “the
     relationship between liberation and one-dimensionality” in Marcuse’s
     work and points out one-dimensionality’s influence on social life. Referring
     to Habermas, Winter suggests to maintain a dialectical perspective
     in order to criticize one-dimensionality and strive for social change.
     Referring to examples of, e.g., the Occupy movement, he discusses “how
     one-dimensionality can be challenged and overcome by different forms of
     resistance” and suggests to return to Marcuse’s critical theory.
         Sabine Hess also discusses the relationship between resistance and
     power by examining forms of borderland resistance. Starting from the
     observation that the ‘border paradigm’ is still prevalent, she illustrates how
     the ‘autonomy of migration’-approach allows for change of perspective on
     borders and, consequently, provides the option of conceiving of migration
     as resistance. Showing that “the border regime can be understood as
     a site of constant encounter, tension, conflict, and contestation,” she
     manages to “re-conceptualize borderlands as well as migration itself as
     ways of resistance,” thereby turning migration from an object of scholarly
     discussion to a resistant practice which questions established orders of
     knowledge.
         Kemal İnal and Ulaş Başar Gezgin focus on the agents and subjects
     as well as on different forms of urban resistance and set out to explore the
     specific contextual parameters that have contributed to their emergence.
     Asking who ‘reclaims the cities,’ in what ways, and for what particular
     purposes, they focus primarily on “massive popular resistances in Arab
     regions and in some other Western countries.” Based on the argument
     that this form of resistance is primarily directed against capitalism, they
     are calling for ‘the people’ to organize in commons, rebuild a democratic
     and socially produced and productive city, and find new ways of resistance
     in urban environments.
         Jens Martin Gurr examines urban practices of resistance, urban
     activism, and ‘right to the city’ movements in another cultural and
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