Resistance: Subjects, Representations, Contexts

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All around the world and throughout history resistance has played an important role – and it still does. Some strive to raise it to cause change. Some dare not speak of it. Some try to smother it to keep a status quo. The contributions to this volume explore phenomena of resistance in a range of historical and contemporary environments. In so doing, they not only contribute to shaping a comparative view on subjects, representations, and contexts of resistance, but also open up a theoretical dialogue on terms and concepts of resistance both in and across different disciplines. With contributions by Micha Brumlik, Peter McLaren, Gayatri C. Spivak and others. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Introduction. Coming to Terms—On the Aim and Scope of this Volume......Page 8 Resistance. Carl von Ossietzky, Albert Leo Schlageter, and Mahatma Gandhi......Page 18 More than Resistance. Striving for Universalization......Page 32 Popular Culture, ‘Resistance,’ ‘Cultural Radicalism,’ and ‘Self-Formation’. Comments on the Development of a Theory......Page 46 Resistance as a Way out of One-Dimensionality. The Contribution of Herbert Marcuse to a Critical Analysis of the Present......Page 72 Border Crossing as Act of Resistance. The Autonomy of Migration as Theoretical Intervention into Border Studies......Page 88 Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming the Rights. The Commons and the Omnipresence of Resistance......Page 102 “All Those Who Know the Term ‘Gentrification’ are Part of the Problem”. Self-Reflexivity in Urban Activism and Cultural Production......Page 118 Images of Protest. On the “Woman in the Blue Bra” and Relational Testimony......Page 136 Connecting Origin and Innocence. Myths of Resistance in European Memory Cultures after 1945......Page 154 Into the Darkness: Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy for a Socialist Society. A Manifesto......Page 174 List of Contributors......Page 192