We continue to develop resistance studies

In our work to develop resistance studies, we need to find ways to keep the contention with relations of domination alive and thriving, also when that domination is part of the academia. I do not have the answers to how we need to go about this, but I do know that what made this work possible and created the vision of resistance studies among us PhD students at a peace studies department at the University of Gothenburg was informal networks. It was through linking academics, activists, authors, and interested individuals into a network that created activities growing out of desire – despite no one believing it would “work” – that we found the ideas, inspiration, and energy to do what we do now.