ABSTRACT
Source: Barry K.Gills (ed.), Globalization and the Politics of Resistance (Macmillan, Basing-stoke, 2000), pp. 30-44.
Chin and Mittelman explore the works of a range of political and social thinkers to identify three conceptualisations of resistance: counter-hegemony (based in the writings of Antonio Gramsci), countermovements (based on work by Karl Polanyi) and ‘infrapolitics’ (an idea coined by James C.Scott). They examine the implications of these ideas and then relate them to forms of resistance in the face of the shifting challenges presented by globalization. In particular they focus on the idea that resistance movements shape and are constitutive of cultural processes which relate to the whole of social life, rather than simply to material processes such as production or exchange.
