Everyday Resilience as Resistance

Palestinian Women PracticingSumud

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ID2264396
AuthorsCaitlin Ryan (0000-0003-3740-540X, University of Limerick, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume9
Issue4
Pages299-315
Publication date2015-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Political Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/ips.12099
OpenAlexW2178434917
LanguageEN
Citations received86
References cited29

This article contributes a different approach to discussions of resilience and resistance by arguing that within the current literature, there is too little attention to how communities may engage in their own resilience building without outside intervention or interference. Further, this article will argue that the literature which poses resilience as fundamentally different from resistance overlooks the ways in which resilience can be seen as a tactic of resistance through the lens of infrapolitics. The article uses the Palestinian example of sumud to illustrate these two points. Sumud is a tactic of resistance to the Israeli occupation that relies upon adaptation to the difficulties of life under occupation, staying in the territories despite hardship, and asserting Palestinian culture and identity in response to Zionist claims which posit Israelis as the sole legitimate inhabitants of the land. Sumud represents a “resilient resistance”—a tactic of resistance that relies on qualities of resilience such as getting by and adapting to shock. Thinking about sumud as a form of resilient resistance challenges the resilience literature to engage with a greater variety of forms of resilience

Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Sociology · Computer Science · Middle East Politics and Society · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology

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