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The power of safe resistance

Peter Bloom

Journal of Political Power, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 219 - 239

Swansea University Author: Peter Bloom

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/2158379X.2013.805919

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This paper seeks to critically reimagine the relationship between power and resistance. It aims to better understand how resistance aids in the construction, exercise and often reproduction of power. In doing so it opens up the space for a new perspective of power linked to the production of the res...

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Published in: Journal of Political Power
ISSN: 2158-379X 2158-3803
Published: 2013
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