Abstrakt
Subjectivity has been analyzed ever since an anthropology of resistance embarked on its turbulent voyage at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. Sometimes more central, sometimes rendered secondary, the concept of subjectivity, embedded in various theoretical currents, has witnessed a fascinating boom of resistance studies in the 1980s, a breakdown after harsh critique in the 1990s, and a second breath of resuscitation, beginning lustily at the turn of the millennium, still breathing until today, and further conceptualized with new terms like urban protest, horizontal democracy, occupation, alter-globalization, anti-austerity mobilization, hacktivism, Arab spring or militant ethnography.
The task of this chapter is to guide the reader through the flourishing field of anthropological studies, with regards to subjectivity in protest. The text is divided into three parts.
The first, 'Disentangling the Field', provides an overview of key conceptualizations defining this current throughout its existence. In 'Contemporary State-of-the-Art', some main clusters of actual research agendas are presented, followed by 'Emerging Tasks', outlining some upcoming research challenges.