Special Issue: Grey Zones of Resistance

Recent years have seen valuable attempts to interrogate the received registers of resistant action, expanding and complicating the conceptual purview of resistance to respond to the challenges of the present moment. The special issue represents a timely rejoinder to this burgeoning body of scholarship by exploring the grey zones of resistance – the morally ambiguous choices and situations facing resistance activists that stem from their embeddedness within the very conditions of oppression that they seek to fight. Its aim is to think resistance beyond the confines of heroic agency and virtuous commitment that have been prevalent in the revolutionary tradition and that continue to hold us captive today. It suggests that enhancing our understanding of the grey zones within resistance represents an important resource for reinvigorating the politics of opposition and struggle for our uncertain political world shorn of traditional moral certitudes.

Table of Contents

Maša Mrovlje and Jennet Kirkpatrick, Grey Zones of Resistance and Contemporary Political Theory

Tal Correm, The Grey Zones of Violence in Political Resistance

Maša Mrovlje, Virile Resistance and Servile Collaboration: Interrupting the Gendered Dynamics of Betrayal in Resistance Movements

Gisli Vogler, The Ambiguity of Subversion: Resistance through Radio Broadcasting

Bronwyn Leebaw, Traces of Hope: Accounts of Rescue, Care, and the Grey Zones of Resistance

Thanks so much to our wonderful contributors!