Resistance and Its Potential. (June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Muth, William
• Other Names: Vagle Mark D. guest-editor.; Thiel Jaye Johnson guest-editor.; Hofsess Brooke Anne guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 26:Number 5(2020)
• Page Start: 465
• Page End: 471
• Publication Date: 2020-06
• Subjects: post-phenomenology -- posthumanism -- civil disobedience; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800418819644
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

Resistance—political, physical, or philosophical—emerges in thresholds of contact where the "sides" engage, and sometimes one side gives way to the other. This study works in the thresholds of political resistance and an unsettled philosophical stance to examine a singular event in which the author's intentional being in the protest "gave way." It attends to two incompatible notions of subjectivity—an oriented/intentional lived subjectivity that is potentially available to, and claimed by, human experience and post-intentional, posthuman subject assemblages that are not accessible to human experience—to examine the potential of resistance for both civil disobedience and post-phenomenological qualitative inquiry.