Resistance Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/resistance/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:19:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Resistance Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/resistance/ 32 32 A Poetics of Living Rebellion https://www.publicbooks.org/a-poetics-of-living-rebellion/ Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:00:59 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55674 Rebellions cannot be studied with our traditional toolbelt of Western historical methods.

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]]> “Living in and as Refusal”: Eric Stanley on Anti-Trans/Queer Violence https://www.publicbooks.org/living-in-and-as-refusal-eric-stanley-on-anti-trans-queer-violence/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:00:17 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54886 “While ungovernability takes many paths, here it approximates living in and as refusal.”

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]]> The U.S. Has Never Forgiven Haiti https://www.publicbooks.org/the-us-has-never-forgiven-haiti/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:00:14 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54491 For Frederick Douglass, and for Black activists across the United States, there was no place more important to global Black freedom than Haiti.

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]]> “Everything Possible with Everything Given” https://www.publicbooks.org/everything-possible-with-everything-given/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:00:55 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46909 There are so many utopias. Could one be a small collective of nuns, performing their chores, far from the disasters of the 12th century?

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]]> Imagination or Regulation? Challenging the Incorporation of Antiracism as a Response to Crisis https://www.publicbooks.org/imagination-or-regulation-challenging-the-incorporation-of-antiracism-as-a-response-to-crisis/ Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:00:20 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46086 The way we talk about racial justice matters. In fact, corporation’s embrace of antiracist slogans can actually advance racism.

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]]> Public Thinker: Frances Negrón-Muntaner on Puerto Rico, Art, and Decolonial Joy https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-frances-negron-muntaner-on-puerto-rico-art-and-decolonial-joy/ Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:00:14 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=32947 Frances Negrón-Muntaner is an innovative and multimodal thinker and artist, and a professor ... [none-for-homepage]

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]]> Fill the Halls: Space and Possibility in Lahore, Pakistan https://www.publicbooks.org/fill-the-halls-space-and-possibility-in-lahore-pakistan/ Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:00:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=29632 Lahore today can feel like a city of security checks and gated passages, tall walls and ...

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]]> Dancing through Dark Times https://www.publicbooks.org/dancing-through-dark-times/ Tue, 21 May 2019 15:00:50 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=28394 What can dance contribute to the contemporary politics of resistance? If politics is about movement—uprising, oppression, resistance, setback, advance ...

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]]> Women of the Algerian Resistance https://www.publicbooks.org/women-of-the-algerian-resistance/ Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:00:42 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=18462 On May 8, 1945, France joined the festivities of V-E Day, celebrating the total defeat of Nazi Germany as well as the ...

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]]> The Big Picture: Black Women Activists and the FBI https://www.publicbooks.org/big-picture-black-women-activists-fbi/ Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:00:16 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=17106 According to a recently leaked FBI report, the agency is now watching a new group they have labeled “Black Identity Extremists.” These “BIE” groups, the Bureau asserts, are motivated by “perceptions of police brutality against African Americans” and have “spurred an increase in premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement.” The FBI’s renewed targeting of […]

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