Beyond Conceptual Ambiguity
Exemplifying the "Resistance Pyramid" Through the Reflections of (Ex) Prisoners' Agency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12875331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melissa Munn (University of Calgary, corresponding author), Chris Bruckert (University of Ottawa) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 137-149 |
| Publication date | 2010-08-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Sociology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1733-8077 • E-ISSN: 1733-8077 |
| Publisher | Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18778/1733-8077.6.2.07 |
| OpenAlex | W4206344223 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
Contemporary resistance scholarship increasingly positions individuals as agents operating within power relations and as such, this stimulating and diverse body of work illuminates the complexity of powerresistance. The richness of this academic engagement notwithstanding, there continues to be a paucity of work which offers a framework for conducting an analysis of resistance. In this article, we propose a general framework through which power-resistance can be coded, analyzed and theorized. Using data from an ethnomethodological study of 20 former longterm male prisoners in Canada, we demonstrate the usefulness of our 'resistance pyramid' to render visible the objectives, purposes, strategies, tactics and skills which characterize the processes, and not just the practices, of resistance. We argue that it is exactly these, often obscured, processes that allow us to appreciate the density of resistance-power, the multiple ways it operates and the significance of individuals' social, personal or political capital
Agency (philosophy · Ambiguity · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Pyramid (geometry · Resistance (ecology · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Work (physics · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Engineering · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law
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Dining in
Death and the Triumph of Governance
Reassessing Resistance
Reconfigurations of penality
Getting tense about genealogy
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Prison Riots, Social Order and the Problem of Legitimacy
Power, Adaptation and Resistance in a Late-Modern Men’s Prison
CCTV
Breaking Bodies Into Pieces
Dirty Protest
Resistance, Transition and Exclusion
Raves, Risks and the Ecstacy Panic
Writing Genealogies
Changing Violent Minds
Women and Heroin
Doing Gender as Resistance
Rethinking Subcultural Resistance
All that is Solid
The Role of Political Imprisonment in Developing and Enhancing Political Leadership
Indigenous governance
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |