Stellan Vinthagen August 21st, 2007

University of Gothenburg Resistance Seminars

Since September 2007 the Resistance Studies Network is having seminars which brings up various aspects of “resistance studies”. The Seminar is the main meeting point for researchers, students and activists interested in critical resistance studies. All seminars are open for interested participants.

Since 2012 the seminar program is published on Facebook in the group “Resistance Studies Seminars”. If you become a member in the group you will get the info to your Facebook account. If you are not on Facebook, send us an email and you will get the info before the seminars: write “stellan.vinthagen” and connect that with @ and add “resistancestudies.org” (the email address is a normal one but written like this in order to avoid the spam machines …).

From 2013 and onwards we have one seminar series that is built on introducing lectures, and one built on academic texts. If you are interested in the text-based one (organized by our Resistance Studies Group at School of Global Studies), let me know. Thanks.

Stellan Vinthagen

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OLD SEMINAR PROGRAMS

The program for the first part of 2011 (the Eight Season) is now published, see below!

At Thursday’s at 15.15-17.00 (at odd weeks) at the Annedalsseminariet, Seminariegatan 1A, close to Linneplatsen (see description how to find at www.globalstudies.gu.se). For more information, and previous seminars, see below. The room number is normally SA403 but may vary for different seminars (see below).

Normally there is a paper accessible on this site (see below) one week before each seminar.

Observe that some seminars are in English and others in Swedish (see in the Schedule below) depending on the language of the presented paper or preferred language of the seminar presenter.

After the seminar there is a post-seminar gathering at restaurant Gyllene Prag (Sveag. 25) from 17:00 and onwards. We eat, drink and continue the discussions from the seminar in a more informal way. You are welcome to attend even if you was not at the seminar!

Before the seminar we sometimes have a working group meeting of the network (14:00-15:00) in the same room. If you want to attend, you have to email in advance to be sure of when and where we meet: type “stellan.vinthagen” and then add “@resistancestudies.org” to a complete email address, and tell that you are coming. Anyone who wants to contribute to the development of the network is welcome. Then we discuss research projects, articles, development of the website, conferences, etc. Since the network is not having any funding for administration all activities depends on the voluntary contribution of members of the network. Come with your ideas and discuss with others how to develop the network!

If you have more proposals of seminar themes or persons (especially for the next semester but also for the coming months), you are welcome to propose them by sending an email to the new organizer of the seminar: Per Ström. If you want to propose possible people don’t hesitate to contact Per. There are maybe guest lecturers traveling by Gothenburg anyhow and who we should include in the activities of the network, or other people working in the area with issues of interest for resistance studies.

Welcome to a new semester of Resistance Studies!!

New Seminar Coordinator (from Jan 2010): Per Ström, (contact through writing “per.strom” and then add “@yahoo.se”). Per is the one to contact with all questions regarding the seminars. Per works in collaboration with Stellan Vinthagen, responsible contact person for RSN at School of Global Studies.

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Schedule for the first semester 2011 (Jan-May)

January 20:  Eda Hatice Farsakoglu, Researcher: Resisting Military Service and Militarism in a “Military-Nation” – The Case of the Conscientious Objection Movement in Turkey.
Thursday 15.00 -1700. Seminar will be in Enlish at room 419

February 3: Mathias Cederholm, Historian: Bönder som värnare – Beväpning, status och uppror i Norden och Europa ca 1000-1800.
Thursday 15.00 -1700. Seminar will be in Swedish at room 419.

February 17: Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Author & activist: Varat och varan – om motstånd i myternas tid.
Thursday 15.00 -1700. Seminar will be in Swedish at room 419.

March 3: Mårten C, Author from the journal Dissident: Subsumtion, intervention & insurrektion – Marx kritik av den politiska ekonomins organiseringsform.
Thursday 15.00 -1700. Seminar will be in Swedish at room 419.

March 17: Henrik Johansson,Writer from the newspaper Arbetaren: Maktkamp på arbetsplatsen – Varför ser arbetsplatskampen ut som den gör, och hur kan den komma att förändras?
Thursday 15.00 -1700. Seminar will be in Swedish at room 419.

April 14: Paula Mulinari, Lecturer in social work at the Department of Health and Society: Motsånd och anpassning – om motståndstrategier inom hotell- och restaurnag.
Thursday 15.00 -1700. Seminar will be in Swedish at room 419.

April 28: Cecilia Åsberg, Chief editor of the Nordic Journal of Feminist & Gender Research:
Post-humanism – individens upplösning. biovetenskap och filosofi.
Thursday 15.00 -1700. Seminar will be in Swedish at room 419.

May 19: Thomas Johansson, Professor of Pedagogics: Kändisfabriken. Identitet, makeover och kroppens tid – psykologiseringen av samhället.
Thursday 15.00 -1700. Seminar will be in Swedish at room 419.

May 26:  Elin Åman & Johanna Tjernström: As the drop excavates the Stone – The work of Amnesty International from a resistance perspective.
Thursday 15.00 -1700. Seminar will be in English at room 419.

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OLD PROGRAMMES (Sept 2007 -)

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Schedule for the second semester 2010 (Sep-Dec)

September 16 with Marcus Regnander and Mattias Ström, International Solidarity Movement – Researchers. Nonviolent Resistance and State Repression in Hebron. Seminar is in Swedish. September 16. Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 419.

October 13 with Tiina Rosenberg, Professor of Gender Studies. Från protest till motstånd: Utgångspunkt Ulrike Meinhofs text Vom Protest zum Widerstand. Seminar is in Swedish. October 13. Wednesday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 419.

October 28 with Salka Sanden, author. 1990-talet och den autonoma rörelsens framväxt i Sverige. Seminar is in Swedish. October 28. Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 419.

November 11 with Daniel Hjalmarsson, Akademikerförbundet SSR. På jobbet är väl alla hetero…?: Öppenhet och stängda dörrar på sveriges arbetsplatser. Seminar is in Swedish. November 11. Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 419.

November 25 with Mats Adolfsson, historian. Svenska uppror: bondeuppror och gatukravaller. Seminar is in Swedish. November 25. Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 419.

December 9 with Mattias Gardell (or another member of) Ship To Gaza. Seminar is in Swedish. December 9. Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 419.

Schedule for the first semester 2010 (Jan-June)

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January 7 with Cathrin Wasshede, doctoral student since spring 2002. Department of Sociology, Gothenburg University. MotstÃ¥nd och gränserfarenheter: Inordnandet av människor i köns- och sexualitetskategorier fungerar som en disciplinerande och subjektiverande kraft. Vi blir till som subjekt, vi blir människor och vi blir begripliga. PÃ¥ detta seminarium belyser jag motstÃ¥nd mot detta i form av disidentifikation och abjektifiering, d v s en verbaliserad form av abjekt/abjektion, utifrÃ¥n mitt pÃ¥gÃ¥ende avhandlingsarbete i sociologi. När den förkastade positionen används som utgÃ¥ngspunkt för motstÃ¥ndet – exempelvis genom att, som nÃ¥gra av aktivisterna i mitt material gör, ”använda smutsen som vapen” eller identifiera sig som intergendered – utmanas och överskrids gränser mellan det inkluderade och det exkluderade, det begripliga och det obegripliga. Kan dessa gränserfarenheter bidra till förändring av den heteronormativa könsmaktsordningen? Seminar is in Swedish. January 7 Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 403. For those who want to familiarize themselves with Cathrin Wasshedes research we recommend this paper: Den Gode, den Onde, den Normale: MotstÃ¥nd och ambivalens – unga aktivistmän i närkamp med heterosexualitet (Download directly by clicking on the link)

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Januay 21 - Due to a late drop-off, we have been unable to book any speaker on this date. All we talked to are in the process of: surgery, childbirth and the like. See you in February!

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February 4 with Jonas Olsson, psychologist. On psychology and resistance: This seminar explores some of the connections between psychology and resistance. Psychological research on activism – varieties, results, possible implications. Also discusses the idea of viewing some forms of psychopathology as resistance, drawing mainly on Foucault and narrative psychology. Seminar is in Swedish. February 4 Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 403.

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February 18 with Hinda Talal, activist in the peace movement. To exist is to resist – Non-violent resistance in Occupied Palestinian Territories: Non-violence in Palestine is not an unknown form of resistance. The first Intifada, also known as the uprising in 1987, was principally non-violent. The Palestinian resistance during the first Intifada took various forms and shapes as the people opted for civil disobedience, strikes, boycotts and refusal to pay taxes. A cultural manifestation of the Intifada grew quickly and graffiti as well as Hip-hop increased in popularity. However, as the second Intifada became a de facto reality in 2000, non-violent resistance in Palestine has not been the focal point in the media. When Hamas gained the majority in the Palestinian legislative election in 2006; media and politicians questioned whether the resistance in Palestine was primarily non-violent or whether these elections pointed towards a shift in the Palestinian resistance. This seminar will focus on my journey to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian territories, where I met with organisations, civilians and politicians, who all play vital roles in the Palestinian resistance. Is there any noteworthy and apparent non-violent resistance? If so, what is the impact of the non-violent resistance on its own people, the political fractions, Israel as well as the international view on Palestine? Is the non-violent resistance contributing to social and political change across the affected parties? If so, what lies ahead for such resistance in Palestine? Seminar is in Swedish. February 18 Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 403.Â

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March 4 – Christopher Kullenberg, doctoral student Department of Philosophy. Becoming political online Christopher Kullenberg will present some general ideas about an emerging field of internet politics, where he explores the possibilities of online activism, hacker epistemology and technological change driven by communities rather than states or corporations. Also, a conceptual framework will be elaborated for thinking and acting as an internaut, and how to intervene in internet politics as a mode of existence which is prior to the conventional way of thinking politics as goal oriented, signifying and legislative. Seminar is in Swedish. March 4 Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 403.Â

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March 18 with Åsa Rosenberg, doctoral student since spring 2007 at the Department of Sociology, Gothenburg University. Identity play or propaganda?: Feminist politics in Second Life. The internet is increasingly recognized as not just an inherently social but also political arena. Some parts of the internet (like Google or Facebook) have a largely mainstream character, but many people also choose to organize themselves in opposition to what they perceive to be traditional norms of western society. The virtual world Second Life hosts a variety of such ideologically motivated subcultures. The purpose of this project is to investigate the practice and meaning of two such civic engagements, patriarchical Gorean role play and feminist activism, and the tension between them. Seminar is in English. March 18 Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 403.

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April 15 with Dennis Beach, professor of pedagogy at the University of BorÃ¥s. Sweden’s school system and neoliberalism: Sweden’s school system has taken a strong neo-liberal turn over the past 15 years through decentralisation policies and management technologies that emphasise the individual over the collective and market choices over bureaucratic control. Systems of school choice, individual freedom and performativity now prevail. This presentation draws on over 10 years of ethnographic fieldwork that has examined various aspects of this turn. It looks at data relating specifically to two sets of pupils. These have been identified and coded through the research as pupils who are either particularly successful in school or particularly unsuccessful. One thing that is considered specifically is how pupils are described and positioned by teachers in relation to their schooling and another is how these pupils also describe and position themselves. Questions relating to education democracy and participation in Swedish schools are also considered however and there is an attempt to make a class connection to the outcomes that are described. The suggestion is that neo-liberal educational policies have increased education inequality in both theory and practice. For the rest of the seminars we will be at room 419! Seminar is in Swedish. April 15 Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 419.

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April 29 with Fanny Ambjörnsson, researcher and teacher at the Center for Gender Studies, Stockholm University. VardagsmotstÃ¥nd – Makt, motstÃ¥nd och individualism bland unga queeraktivister: Föreläsningen bygger pÃ¥ fältmaterial frÃ¥n en pÃ¥gÃ¥ende studie om livsvillkor och motstÃ¥ndsstrategier bland unga queeraktivister i Stockholm. Jag vill specifikt diskutera hur dessa ungdomar lokaliserar och definierar makt, men ocksÃ¥ hur de, med ofta okonventionella metoder bedriver motstÃ¥nd i vardagen. Diskussionen ska ses mot bakgrund av att denna ungdomsgeneration i en offentlig diskurs ofta beskrivs som opolitisk, samt att queeraktivism gärna framställs som en individualistisk form av identitetsprojekt snarare än politik. Seminar is in Swedish. April 29 Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 419.

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May 12 with Andrés Brink Pinto, PhD graduated and author. Med Lenin pÃ¥ byrÃ¥n – normer kring klass, genus och sexualitet i den svenska kommunistiska rörelsen 1921-1939: Den svenska kommunistiska rörelsen sÃ¥g sig som en rörelse för arbetarklassen, nÃ¥got som Ã¥terspeglas tydligt i rörelsens propaganda. I de veckotidningar partiet och ungdomsförbundet gav ut markerade man att det som förenade partimedlemmarna var deras gemensamma erfarenheter av klassamhället och deras glödande kommunistiska övertygelse. I de skönlitterära beskrivningarna av hur en medlem av arbetarklassen skulle agera är det dock övertydligt att det subjekt som skildrades Ã¥terupprepade en rad normer som snarare anknöt till den borgerliga medelklassens värderingar även vad gällde homosexualitet. Föredraget problematiserar att en viss typ av identitet föds ur motstÃ¥ndets karaktär och praktik. Seminar is in Swedish. May 13 Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 419.

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May 27 with Johan Söderberg, doctoral student Section for Science and Technology Studies. Open Source 3D-printer – en fabrik pÃ¥ varje köksbord: En gren inom hacker-rörelsen är i färd med att bygga en printer som skriver ut fysiska föremÃ¥l i plast. Ambitionen är att maskinen ska kunna skriva ut delarna med vilken en andra maskin kan monteras ihop. Därmed tas ett steg närmare att införa samma möjlighet till att kopiera föremÃ¥l som nu rÃ¥der pÃ¥ mjukvaru-omrÃ¥det. MÃ¥nga av de som är involverade tror att projekt pekar ut nästa stora strid kring immaterialrätten. Jag kommer titta närmare pÃ¥ de politiska och sociala konsekvenser som förutspÃ¥s av initiativtagarna till projektet. Seminar is in Swedish. May 27 Thursday 15:15-17.00 at the Annedalseminariet at Room 419.

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Schedule for the second semester 2009

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8 Oct Edmé Domingues, PhD, Associate Professor, Latin American Studies, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University. On Maquiladoras and workers resistance: The Movie Maquilapolis: Maquilapolis is a film realized by women workers from maquiladoras in the border town of Tijuana, Mexico. It is a documentary where these women tell us their life stories, their work experience in these foreign owned assembly factories where neither worker rights nor respect for ecology are taken into account. But it is not only a denouncing document it is also an account of their struggles, of their resistance to this kind of jobs and life and of their dreams of change. (Seminar is in English) Room 403.

INSTÄLLT 5 Nov Hanna Wikström, FD, lektor vid instutionen för Socialt arbete, Göteborgs Universitet. Om socialt arbete, motstånd och dekonstruktion. Socialt arbete i Sverige befinner sig i ett ambivalent tillstånd, dels i skuggan av ett auktoritärt psykoanalytiskt tänkande, social ingenjörskonst och tanken på den goda hjälparen, dels alltid med empowerment och hjälp till självhjälp som mål. Denna ambivalens rör också frågan om klienters motstånd och är förankrad i det sociala arbetets utbildningsinstitutioner och praktik. När mer och mindre radikala konstruktionistiska teoribildningar relativt öppenhjärtigt omfamnats inom mer teoretiskt orienterade ämnesområden möts de med stor oförståelse inom det sociala fältet med argument som att människors levda vardag och det sociala arbetets praktik inte kan ”passas in” i dessa som man ser som teoretiska luftslott. Hur tar sig då socialarbetarvardagen uttryck? Och hur skulle ett affirmativt socialt arbete baserat på dekonstruktion kunna se ut? Frågan kan också formuleras: hur lever vi postteori i och genom handling i vardagen? Underlaget för seminariet utgörs av ett första utkast till en projektansökan på temat dekonstruktivt socialt arbete. Hanna Wikströms forskningsintressen är makt och sociala möjlighetsvillkor utifrån kön, ras och klass: (Seminar is in Swedish) Rum 403.

19 Nov Khaled Ahmad, är fredsaktivist och har studerat historia. Om motståndet mot ockupationen i Irak. Ockupationen av Irak är vida känd som ett av de mest obskyra brott mot internationell lag som gjorts under senare år. Dessvärre känner få till det irakiska folkets motstånd mot denna ockupation. Det etablerade massmedia har inte varit saklig i sin framställning av det irakiska motståndet. Seminariet kommer i stora drag att analysera motståndets roll i att bekämpa ockupationen och försvara landet. (Seminar is in Swedish) Rum 403. Seminarieunderlag (om motståndet i Irak) finns att beställa via mail från stellan. vinthagen @ resistancestudies. org (skriv adressen utan mellanrum).

3 Dec Lisa Westberg, minister in the Swedish Church, Teol. Mag. (2007), and Bach. of Fine Arts – International Politics and Global Ethics (1994); Hatha Yoga Cert. Teacher and community gardener. On faith, prayer and resistance. How may prayer and spiritual practice contribute to acts of resistance? Also exploring what role faith has in the context and culture of resistance? With examples from several faith traditions such as Hindu, Christian, Native American and Pagan, primarily in Swedish and American settings. The Seminar text is possible to download here. (Seminar is in English) Room  403.

17 Dec Jonas Olsson, psychologist. On psychology and resistance. This seminar explores some of the connections between psychology and resistance. Psychological research on activism – varieties, results, possible implications. Also discusses the idea of viewing some forms of psychopathology as resistance, drawing mainly on Foucault and narrative psychology. (Seminar is in English) Room  403.

Schedule for the first semester 2009

Resistance Studies Seminar, University of Gothenburg
Jan-June 2009
4th Semester of RSN Seminar, www.resistancestudies.org

29 Jan Camilla Orjuela , PhD and Researcher in Peace and Development research, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. On Identities of resistance: A note about street gangs, globalised violent conflict and Sri Lanka’s war zones in London and Toronto (Mail to Camilla for paper: camilla.orjuela@globalstudies.gu.se) (In English) Room 403.

12 Feb Balder Lingegård and Rikard Fröberg from the Pirate Party. On file-sharing, copyright and resistance. (In English) Room 403. The lecture exist on an open source format and as a pdf. See a collection of material on http://razor.azoff.se/fun/PirateResistance.html

26 Feb Anton Törnberg och Patrik Palm. Om motstånd och rörelser i Latinamerika (OBS: 13-15 föreläsning, 15-17 seminarium) (In Swedish) Rum 403. The lecture exists as a power point.

12 March Niklas Hansson, PhD. “Network Politics and the Gothenburg Social Forum-process“. A seminar about local social forum-organization within the World Social Forum-process. The session will take as its starting point an ethnological study [Ph.D dissertation] based on fieldwork in Gothenburg, Sweden, between 2003 and 2005. The study’s main theoretical influence is Manuel DeLanda’s neo-materialist Assemblage Theory, but draws from a range of theoretical sources (social movement theory, actor network theory, information theory, systems theory, globalization theory). (In English) Note: Room 303. There are two texts which will be discussed during the seminar (Hansson’s PhD summary, and, a text on Network Politics).

26 March Linnea Svensk baserat på sitt examensarbete i psykologi; Om Freud och motstånd i behandlingssituationer av patienter (OBS: 13-15 föreläsning, 15-17 seminarium) (In Swedish) Rum 403. Ladda ned texten inför seminariet här.

16 April Leif Eriksson, Senior Lecturer in Peace and Development research, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. “With lawful excuse – taking back authority from govermnent”. Discussing the thoughts and activities of the Freeman-on-the-land, Robert Menard, Canada. (In English) OBS: Room 219. See the power point presented at the seminar.

23 April Katrin Uba, Anti-privatisation struggles in India (OBS: At 13-15 Lecture, and 15-17 Seminar). (In English) Room 403. Katrin Uba suggest to read the thesis in one of the two ways – depending on the main interests of the reader: (1) In case of the interest in labour movement India – read introduction and the 1^st essay (2) In case of the interest in outcomes of social movement mobilisation – read introduction and 3^rd essay.

7 May Jonathan Pye, activist. A photo show of resistance at the West Bank, Palestine. (The earlier planned seminar with Suzanne Hammad is rescheduled to next semester when she finished her research draft), (In English) Room 403.

28 May Erik Andersson, Senior Lecturer in Peace and Development research, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. On Economy and resistance (discoursive strategies against neoliberal hegemony). (In English) Room 403. (Note that the date is not the normal one due to a holiday). Please read the short seminar text before the seminar!

4 June Vera Häggblom, former student School of Global Studies. On ETA and the Basque Resistance. (In English) Room 403. See the seminar text here. The full text exists only in Swedish, and is accessible here.

Schedule for the second semester 2008

1. Sep 11 2008 Peace Researcher Jörgen Johansen; Seminar on 9-11 and terrorism. “Osama Bin Laden should be thanked for the awakening!” The resistance is growing globally as a result of 9-11 and the ”War on Terror”. Which possible roads are probable, likely, wise and/or catastrophic? (see http://www.transnational.org/SAJT/tff/people/j_johansen.html) ROOM 303. Background material for the seminar: http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=248
   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/imams-invited-to-schools-in-fight-against-extremism-837403.html
   http://www.iwanami.co.jp/jpworld/text/USHegemony01.html
   http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0423/p01s01-uspo.html
2. Sep 25 Visual Artist and former prof of Fine Arts Cecilia Parsberg; Seminar on Art, Culture and Resistance. About how art or our aesthetic expressions can be used as resistance, with examples from Sweden, Palestine and other places in the world. Film: “A Heart from Jenin”. Before the seminar, please read the paper (downloadable here), see previous projects at http://this.is/parsberg/) and view the film “A Heart from Jenin” at the Museum of World Culture, exhibition “Take Action!” (then other films by Parsberg is possible to show at the seminar if all have seen the film before!). See also the film poster, one visual art photo from the Wall in Palestine and a (Swedish) description of the film. ROOM 419.
3. Oct 9 Seminar with Movies on Resistance (Stellan Vinthagen). One or several shorter movies on resistance relevant themes will be shown and discussed. If you have suggestions, contact Stellan; stellan. vinthagen @ resistancestudies. org (type without spaces in the address). ROOM 325.
4. Oct 23 Riff-Raff Co-Editor Per Ström; Seminarium om klasskamp och det “ansiktslösa motståndet” (Seminar is in Swedish, and about hidden work-place resistance). Per inleder diskussionen utifrån sin specialskrivna artikel för seminariet; ”Den politiska ekonomins väktare och desertörer: kapital, vänstern och det ansiktslösa motståndet.” Statistiken visar att fackligt motstånd och arbetarplatskamp minskat på senare decennier men stämmer det med verkligheten? Kan det vara så att kampen ändrat form under kapitalismens förändring och nya villkor? (Per is part of the editing team of http://www.riff-raff.se/). ROOM 325.
5. Nov 6 Dr Karl Palmås and Resistance Magazine Editor Christopher Kullenberg; Seminar on Surveillance, Power and Resistance. In late-modern societies in the West, as well as dictatorships, like Burma or China, surveillance is increasing and is developed into new forms. That changes the power structure, but also the articulation and expressions of resistance. Palmås and Kullenberg talks from their ongoing “Panspec-project”. (See http://panspectrocism.org, http://rsmag.org/ and http://www.isk-gbg.org/99our68/). ROOM 325.
6. Nov 20 Assistant Prof. Bengt Brülde; Seminar on the Ethical Obligation to Resist. In some situations resistance is arguably an ethical obligation. Before the seminar, read the the blog entry by Bengt Brülde on this seminar posted by Stellan Vinthagen on 13 Nov). (See http://maya.phil.gu.se/bengt/). ROOM 325.
7. Dec 4 PhD-Student Gunilla Priebe; Seminar on Resistance within the Science Discourse. Priebe talks about “Who is the expert? Re-defining scientific quality standards as a source of resistance towards colonially ascribed identities”. The theme is drawn from ongoing research (PhD project, dissertation June 2009). The seminar text is downloadable here. ROOM 325.
8. Dec 18 Post-Doc Fellow Patricia Lorenzoni; Stories of resistance – race, ethnicity and the right to land in Brazil. The seminar discusses histories of resistance and the right to land from the cases of indigenous minorities and maroon communities in Brazil. Although these two groups in many cases may be hard to distinguish from one another on the field, different legislations apply. While maroon rights are based on the constructing of genealogies of resistance, indigenous rights are tied to notions of ethnic authenticity. Lorenzoni will present ongoing research on the relation between (sometimes self)ascribed identities, the law and the precarious legitimacy of the State. (See http://hum.gu.se/institutioner/idehistoria-och-vetenskapsteori/personal/andra/patricia). ROOM 407.

Do you have more suggestions for seminars and seminar-leaders? Send proposals to Stellan; stellan. vinthagen @ resistancestudies. org (type without spaces in the address)

Schedule for the first semester 2008

Room 325 is booked for all seminars.

1. 31/1 Everyday Resistance (Safaa Daoud). Building on Scott Daoud discusses Everyday Resistance. The paper you find here.
2. 14/2 Digitalt motstånd (Mathias Klang)
3. 28/2 Discussion on the attempt to conceptualize “Resistance” by Hollander (2004). (The seminar on ”Negotiating Histories of Resistance and the Right to Land – the Case of Maroon Decsendants in Brazil” (Gunilla Priebe & Patricia Lorenzoni) is cancelled ).
4. 13/3 Presentation and discussion of the first Resistance Studies Magazine (follow the link above “Magazine” and download the first issue). (Christopher Kullenberg).
5. 27/3 VarumärkesmotstÃ¥nd (Ekonomi och motstÃ¥nd) (Hans Sinclair). Seminariet som denna gÃ¥ng sker pÃ¥ svenska handlar om Hans avhandlingsämne: hur grupper och rörelser idag pÃ¥ olika sätt attackerar företagens varumärken (“logo”) och därmed utövar ett ekonomiskt och kulturellt/ideologiskt motstÃ¥nd mot den hypermoderna informationskapitalismen. Ett underlag kan laddas ned här.
6. 10/4 Women and Resistance (Edmé Dominguez). Assitant Professor Edmé Dominguez gives a preliminary final report from her research of women workers in Mexico and their resistance to “global capital at the local level”. The paper can be downloaded here.
7. 24/4 The Ethical Obligation to Resist (Bengt Brülde) CANCELLED!! (That means there is no meeting at 14, no seminar at 15 and no post-seminar at 17!)
8. 8/5 Power Theory (Lennart Bergfeldt). Short introduction can be downloaded here. OH-copies will be handed out on the seminar.
9. 22/5 Juridiskt motstånd (Mikael Baaz). Om hur juridik kan vara både ett uttryck för makt och för motstånd. Texten kan laddas ned här (pdf-version). Seminariet sker på svenska.
10. 5/6 Motståndskonferens (Världskulturmuseet, 10.00-17.00).

First semester 2007

13/9 ”Motståndsnätverkets Missionstatement” (Mona Lilja +

Stellan Vinthagen)

Nätverket initierades med ett s k Missionstatement som kan laddas ned i rubriken ovan och som utgör underlag för seminariet tillsammans med den uppdaterade och teorietiskt utvecklade versionen som presenteras som konferenspapper pÃ¥ Europeiska sociologkonferensen i Glasgow den 3-6 september: Vinthagen & Lilja (2007) “The State of Resistance Studies”. FrÃ¥gor som förslagsvis kan diskuteras är dels definitionen av motstÃ¥nd (även om nästa tillfälle helt vigts till det delikata problemet…), beskrivningen av existerande ”motstÃ¥ndsstudier” inom olika teoretiska fält, dels kopplingen motstÃ¥nd och makt, dels kopplingen motstÃ¥nd och social förändring, dels forskningsfrÃ¥gorna och de föreslagna aktiviteterna för nätverket. Eller nÃ¥got annat…. Känn dig välkommen! Ingen föranmälan behövs.

Inför varje seminarium skickas ett mail ut med mer information. Här är dock de tider som kommer att gälla under hösten. Vårens schema kommer i god tid under hösten.

1. 27/9 Vad är motstÃ¥nd? (Defining ”Resistance”) (ML + SV) Room 303, Annedalsseminariet. The text by Stellan Vinthagen and Mona Lilja on “Resistance” in Anderson, Gary L. & Kathryn G. Herr (2007) Encyklopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Sage: California, p. 1215-1217, will be discussed. But the discussion will not only be on the text but mainly on the difficult task of defining “resistance” (and its different forms/expressions/aspects…).

1. 11/10 “Critical Resistance” (Text by David Hoy), Room 129, Annedalsseminariet. This seminar is a continuation of the last two in the sense that we try to make one more attempt to understand what “resistance” is before moving into the texts which deals with forms/aspects of resistance. The text is the Introduction to the acclaimed book “Critical Resistance: From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique” by “A leading authority of Continental philosophy” David Couzens Hoy, professor in Philosophy at University of California, Santa Cruz. We have also included (for those of you who wants more to read…) two reviews of the book (Review 1, Review 2). Mona Lilja will lead the seminar. (Mathias Klang could not make it to this seminar and will present his text during next semester in 2008).

1. 25/10 “Abstract Hacktivism and Resistance” (Dr Karl PalmÃ¥s), Room 204, Annedalsseminariet. Dr Karl PalmÃ¥s from the Department of Economics (Handels) at Gothenburg University, will present a very interesting reflection on contemporary resistance, built on his (and Otto von Busch) book “Abstract hacktivism” (download book here). The seminar will focus on how “hacktivism” can be understood as a form of reconstruction, reuse and manipulation of computors/machines/systems, and as such a kind of (re)constructive resistance (More info on the book you will find in the blog-entry by Stellan Vinthagen, dated 19th of Oct). Welcome!

1. 8/11 ”Resistance in the digital age” (Swedish text can be downloaded here) ( Christopher Kullenberg), Room 325, Annedalsseminariet. This seminar will focus on the question concerning the conditions for resistance in the digital era of information technologies and surveillance. The seminar will discuss the shift from disciplinary societies to societies of control, and explore the relationships between power and resistance.

1. 22/11 Nonviolent Revolutions ( Jörgen Johansen), Room 325, Annedalsseminariet. During recent years, mainly from the 1980s, we have seen a growing and impressive trend of “nonviolent revolutions”, revolutions in which non-armed popular movements make authoritarian regimes fall through major demonstrations, strikes, occupations and wide non-cooperation. Jörgen Johansen has studied this phenomenon in detail, published widely on the subject and visited as well as cooperated with several of these revolutionary organizers. The paper for the seminar mainly focus on describing the cases which, from the Iranian revolution 1979 up to the present struggle in e.g. Burma, makes up the empirical foundation for the much needed “theory of nonviolent revolutions”. During the seminar Johansen will give some of the elements of such a theory, a theory which doesn’t exist yet.
   

1. 6/12 ”Understanding Resistance” About definitions, typologies and a “genealogy” of resistance” & The History of Nonviolent action (SV), Room 325, Annedalsseminariet. The seminar text is written by Stellan Vinthagen and deals with definitions of resistance, different typologies, a genealogy of resistance and illustrate that kind of historical analysis by a look on nonviolent action, and is possible to download here Understanding Resistance

1. 20/12 “The ethics of resistance ” ( Bengt Brülde), Room 325, Annedalsseminariet. Ass. Prof. Bengt Brülde discusses the possibilities and difficulties of making an ethical justification of resistance. The paper for the seminar introduces the discussion.
   

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