Resistance
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Definition
Resistance is a situated, relational practice in which an entity or collective obstructs, redirects, or withdraws from attempts to shape its conduct. Beyond humans, resistance includes intentional acts and non-intentional, emergent, or embodied counter-conduct that arise from capacities, habits, ecologies, and material arrangements. It operates across scales (individual to multispecies assemblage) and modalities (behavioural, spatial, material, infrastructural, ecological, and semiotic), and observers can recognise it by the frictions it produces in regimes of control rather than by inferred mental states.
Human Resistance
On access to privatised nature, especially in England.
Hayes, Nick. The Trespasser’s Companion. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.
Nonhuman Resistance
Bear, Christopher, and Lewis Holloway. 2019. “Beyond Resistance: Geographies of Divergent More-than-Human Conduct in Robotic Milking.” Geoforum 104: 212–21. https://doi.org/10/g9xgx9.
Molfese, Carlotta. 2023. “Towards a More-than-Human Theory of Resistance: Reflections on Intentionality, Political Collectives and Opposition.” In Critical Geographies of Resistance, edited by Sarah M. Hughes. Edward Elgar.
Oliver, Catherine. 2023. “Resisting beyond the Human: Animals and Their Advocates.” In Critical Geographies of Resistance, edited by Sarah M. Hughes. Edward Elgar.
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