Abstract
The conceptualization of resistance offered in this chapter builds upon some of the issues raised in the previous one. It is executed around three core issues: the relationship between the neoliberal regime of symbolic domination and contemporary social movements, the relationship between issues of “recognition” and “redistribution” and the implications of the conceptualization of domination offered in Part II for the conceptualization of resistance.
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I am here using the terms “recognition” to refer to a state of affairs whereby individuals are liberated from their “misrecognition” of “symbolic effects” (Bourdieu 2000: 69). Thus, “recognition,” here, entails a rupture between one’s subjective understanding and objective structures. It entails a denaturalization of reality.
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The task of establishing whether the “new social movement” thesis has ever been entirely successful in capturing the evolution of social movements in the past 30 year falls outside the scope set out in this chapter. It is nevertheless to note, as Flesher-Fominaya did, that “many of the movements never lost sight of the issues of the material inequalities that accompanied other forms of discrimination, albeit not always obvious as a core ethic” (2014: 2).
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See Part II for a more detailed analysis of its role in these forms of social ordering.
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Masquelier, C. (2017). Conceptualizing Resistance. In: Critique and Resistance in a Neoliberal Age. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40194-6_16
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