ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the activism that encompasses both moments of rupture as well as activism as an everyday lived experience. Everyday activism, if studied in a vacuum, might seem to occur at exceptional moments of rupture. The chapter explores romanticise activism in everyday life, in which the ordinary people engage, by looking at instances from its ethnography. The women who were at the forefront of these protests were workers in the plantation, who took the initiative to ameliorate their own and, by extension, their fellow workers' situation. Women's struggles and protest were not only an important part of the narrative of conflict but often also central to how the conflict unfolded and how it can be understood. To understand the unorganised everyday protests, the role of organised protests also needs to be briefly examined. The protesting bodies may themselves become mere mechanisms for further re-embodiment of the codes of patriarchy.
