The SAGE Handbook of Resistance offers theoretical essays enabling readers to forge their own perspectives of what "is" resistance and emphasizes the empirical and experiential dimension of resistance - making strong choices in terms of how contemporary topics related to resistance help to rethink our societies as "protest societies".

Table of Contents

• List of Figures and Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Resistance Studies: A Critical Introduction
• PART I FOUNDATIONS
• 1 Globalization, Resistance, and Social Transformation - Jeffrey Juris and Marina Sitrin
• 2 Emerging Subjectivity in Protest - Bob Kurik
• 3 Islamism, Feminism, and Resistance: Rethinking the Arab Spring - Valentine M. Moghadam
• 4 The Grand Refusal?: Struggling with Alternative Foucauldian InspiredApproaches to Resistance at Work - David Knights
• 5 Resisting the 24/7 Work Ethic – Shifting Modes of Regulation and Refusal in Organized Employment - André Spicer and Peter Fleming
• PART II SITES OF RESISTANCE
• 6 The Body as a Site of Resistance - Erynn Masi de Casanova and Afshan Jafar
• 7 The Complexities and Contradictions of Resistance: An Intersectional Perspective - Amanda M. Gengler
• 8 Individual Constraint and Group Solidarity: Marginalized Mothers and the Paradox of Family Responsibility - Jillian Crocker
• 9 Protecting Our Children: Paradoxes of Resistance in an Era of Neoliberal Education - Linda Blum and Shelley Kimelberg
• 10 Resistance in Organizational Strategy-Making - Anniina Rantakari and Eero Vaara
• 11 Prisons as Sites of Power/Resistance - Tammi Arford
• PART III TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER AND RESISTANCE
• 12 Recasting Community for Online Resisting Work - Felipe G. Massa
• 13 Between Grassroots and ‘Astroturf': Understanding Mobilization fromthe Top-down - Edward T. Walker
• 14 From Digital Tools to Political Infrastructure - Marianne Maeckelbergh
• 15 Resisting the New: On Cooptation and the Organisational Conditions for Entrepreneurship - Daniel Hjorth
• PART IV LANGUAGES OF RESISTANCE
• 16 Musical Style, Youth Subcultures, and Cultural Resistance - Ryan Moore
• 17 Graffiti as Infrapolitics: A Study of Visual Interventions of Resistance in San Francisco - Guillaume Marche
• 18 Naming, Shaming, Changing the World - Gay Seidman
• 19 Contesting Authority in a Moralized Market: The Case of a Catholic Hospital Unionization Campaign - Adam Reich
• 20 Organizational Change and Resistance: An Identity Perspective - Sierk Ybema, Robyn Thomas and Cynthia Hardy
• PART V GEOGRAPHIES OF RESISTANCE
• 21 The World Social Forum and Global Resistance: The Trajectory of an Activist Open Space - Giuseppe Caruso
• 22 Back to Work: Resisting Clientelism in a Poor Neighborhood of Buenos Aires - Pablo Fernández
• 23 Bases of Governance and Forms of Resistance: The Case of Rural China - Xueguang Zhou and Yun Ai
• 24 Resistance and its Pitfalls: Analyzing NGO and Civil Society Politics in Bangladesh - Lamia Karim
• 25 Urban Gardening: Between Green Resistance and Ideological Instrument - Sandrine Baudry and Emeline Eudes