The Materiality of Resistance: Resistance of Cultural-Material Artefacts and Bodies

Excerpt: This editorial, and the collection of articles in this issue, provides new insights into the knowledge that a focus on materiality can offer us, particularly with respect to various resisting conducts and political subjectivities. For the purpose of our argument, we have identified three major trajectories in the scholarly literature—new materialism, resistance studies, and feminist/queer studies—which together contribute to a more elaborated view of political struggle.