Chalari, Athanasia 
ORCID: 0000-0003-1016-3797
(2013)
The causal impact of resistance: mediating between resistance and internal conversation about resistance.
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 43 (1).
pp. 66-86.
ISSN 0021-8308
Abstract
Current literature on resistance focuses on the elements of action and opposition as its main components. However, when we use the term resistance we are not necessarily referring exclusively to the active expression of opposition, but could also be referring to discussions about such events or to stimuli that may cause these acts. Thus resistance, for the purposes of this study, is perceived in terms of action, external conversation and stimuli, and it is argued that these external characteristics may be further processed through deliberation and internal conversations about resistance. An exploratory empirical study revealed inner aspects of resistance, and examined whether internal conversations about resistance could actually be experienced by agents. This article further supports the argument that, as individuals produce internal conversations about resistance, they may end by following one of the suggested options: they may keep their internal conversations unspoken, or produce a course of action related to resistance (and identified as such), or they may produce external conversations about resistance, or they may end by producing resistance that is not recognisable (to others) as such. In all these cases, internal conversations about resistance are involved and it is therefore argued that the causal impact of resistance may derive from agential processes and powers as well as from action, stimuli or external conversations related to resistance.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(IS... |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
| Divisions: | Hellenic Observatory |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2012 11:58 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 00:19 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/47139 |
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