To resist = to create? Some thoughts on the concept of resistance in cultural criminology

Hayward, Keith; Schuilenburg, M.B.

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“…Of course, while social media practices are new and notable, they are arguably not enough to secure change. There is ultimately a need for an articulated politics and set of fruitful goals that can be pursued (see Hayward and Schuilenburg 2014), although these can take multiple forms (see Naegler, 2018). Participating in cultural endeavours has, however, been identified as a vital route to politicsboth in terms of developing consciousness (Hall et al, 1978) and for cultivating the affective charge and passion that provide motivation (Dimou and Ilan, 2018).…”

Section: The Time Is Nowmentioning

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Cultural Criminology: The Time is Now

Ilan

2019

Crit Crim

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Cultural criminology understands crime and its control as products of meaning. It explores simultaneously the macro-, meso-and micro-levels of social life, sensitive to the operation of power, in order to produce critical analyses that are politically potent and germane to contemporary circumstances. The cultural criminological project is broad and inclusive, but focused and urgent. It relishes coalition and collaboration, clarity of thought and purpose, praxis and intervention. In its relatively short history, it has carved out a distinctive identity whilst contributing something to the development of a host of other perspectives. This article begins by offering a contemporary definition of cultural criminology, including some reflection on its antecedents and the responses that have recently been addressed to its critics. This is followed by a discussion of the concerns cultural criminology shares with a variety of complementary perspectives and how it can be used to address malign structures and discourses. Finally, the relationship that the sub-discipline might form with transformative politics is explored briefly. As truth and meaning have become the theatres of struggle between fundamentally opposed political positions promising radically different visions of crime, criminalisation, criminal justice and everyday life, never has cultural criminology been more prescient and necessary. The time for cultural criminology is now.

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Section: The Time Is Nowmentioning

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Cultural Criminology: The Time is Now

Ilan

2019

Crit Crim

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“…At this point, I would like to narrowly discuss the reason why I chose the term anti-institutional and not resistance to conceptualize oppositional social action during the years of crisis in Greece. As it happens with the concept of violence, resistance lacks conceptual clarity (Hollander and Einwohner, 2004: 533) resulting in the use of this term for the conceptualization of a very wide pool of actions (see also Hayward and Schuilenburg, 2014). Anti-institutional violence is a form of resistance as it is a form of political violence; however, it stands as a very specific resisting and violent form considering that the target of its actions is overly explicit for every actor involved.…”

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The concept of violence in (times of) crisis

Drymioti¹

2019

Tijdschrift Over Cultuur &Amp; Criminaliteit

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“…This is because resistance is commonly defined as an action or practice enacted in opposition to a certain order, situation, condition or behavior (Hollander and Einwohner, 2014;Johansson and Vinthagen, 2014). 'Opposition' is seen as a core element: the notion of resistance as 'acting against' is inherent in the term's etymological roots (Hayward and Schuilenburg, 2014) and results in the concept being framed as mostly reactive (Vinthagen and Lilja, 2007). However, as Hayward and Schuilenburg (2014) rightly point out, there are limitations to conceptualizing resistance in purely negative terms: 'to resist' also means 'to create' (p. 27).…”

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“…Recognition is seen as a further important yet controversial element in conceptualizing resistance (Hollander and Einwohner, 2004;Johansson and Vinthagen, 2014;Hayward and Schuilenburg, 2014). Disagreement exists about whether oppositional activity can only be defined as resistance if it is recognized as such externally.…”

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‘Goldman-Sachs doesn’t care if you raise chicken’: the challenges of resistant prefiguration

Naegler¹

2018

Social Movement Studies

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This article addresses debates in the 'post-Occupy movement' over the resistant potential of prefigurative politics, and asks how prefiguration can be conceptualized as resistance in relation to activists' understanding of politics, power and social change. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with activists in New York City, it looks at anarchist politics after Occupy Wall Street (OWS). Here, the absence of spectacular moments of confrontation and the removal of OWS's space of mobilization and organizing challenged activists to adjust their prefigurative politics to the shifting spaces post-Occupy. This paper advances our understanding of prefigurative politics by conceptualizing prefiguration as resistance in consideration of the elements of 'intent', 'recognition', 'opposition/confrontation' and 'creation'. Following this, it introduces the 'logic of subtraction' as a concept to understand the resistant potential of prefiguration. Here, I argue that rather than being in an antagonistic relationship with dominant power, resistant prefiguration aims for the creation of alternatives while subtracting power from the state, capital or any other external authority in order to render it obsolete. This understanding allows for a nuanced consideration of the proactive and creative potential of prefiguration, as well as of the difficulties of prefigurative practices in shifting movement spaces.

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To resist = to create? Some thoughts on the concept of resistance in cultural criminology

Cited by 31 publications

References 23 publications

Cultural Criminology: The Time is Now

Cultural Criminology: The Time is Now

The concept of violence in (times of) crisis

‘Goldman-Sachs doesn’t care if you raise chicken’: the challenges of resistant prefiguration

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