ABSTRACT
This chapter makes an overview of the existing literature and its main theories and approaches to “everyday resistance”. We show the plurality and the main tendencies of this emerging field, the many disciplines involved and the varied understandings of everyday resistance. A main conclusion is that the field lacks an accepted understanding of what the phenomenon in question is and how to empirically study it—what its key characteristics are and what roles it plays in politics, social change or the lives of people, in different contexts and historical periods. In this chapter, we therefore suggest a possible definition of everyday resistance that is clear enough to create a focus for the field and open enough to encompass a variety of understandings.
