Introduction: Who’S on Top? Sex Talk, Power, and Resistance

2005 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Keyword(s):  
Power And Resistance ◽  
Sex Talk

scholarly journals Beyond Power and Resistance

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Fleming ◽  
André Spicer
Keyword(s):  
Power And Resistance

scholarly journals Activist Research Practice: Exploring Research and Knowledge Production for Social Action

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aziz Choudry
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
Knowledge Practice ◽  
A Current

Research is a major aspect and fundamental component of many social struggles and movements for change. Understanding social movement networks as significant sites of knowledge production, this article situates and discusses processes and practice of activist research produced outside of academia in these milieus in the broader context of the ‘knowledge-practice’ of social movements. In dialogue with scholarly literature on activist research, it draws from the author’s work as an activist researcher, and a current study of small activist research non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with examples from movement research on transnational corporate power and resistance to capitalist globalization.. It explicates research processes arising from, and embedded in, relationships and dialogue with other activists and organizations that develop through collaboration in formal and informal networks; it contends that building relationships is central to effective activist research practice. In addition to examining how activist researchers practice, understand and validate their research, this paper also shows how this knowledge is constructed, disseminated and mobilized as a tool for effective social action/organizing.

Changing Places: Privilege and Resistance in Contemporary Ireland

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Child Rearing ◽  
Negative Power ◽  
Whistle Blowing ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
The Family ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Power Base ◽  
Alternative Power

This paper explores the reality of patriarchal privileging and resistance within a society which has undergone dramatic change over the past twenty-five years. Using Foucault's ideas of power and resistance (1980; 1988; 1989) and Connell's ideas of the patriarchal dividend (1995 a and b) it first explores these key concepts. It then draws together a wide range of empirical evidence to document the ongoing reality of patriarchal privileging in the world of paid work and the family in Ireland. It then however identifies and illustrates fourteen analytically different types of resistance including the creation of an alternative power base in the family; facilitating the emergence of new child rearing structures; naming the ‘enemy within’; naming aspects of culture which are not ‘woman friendly’; whistle blowing; targeting key structures; negative power etc. It concludes by suggesting (drawing on Acker, 1998) that although the institutional structures reflect the needs and wishes of powerful men, choices can still be made by individual men and women.

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