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geographies of resistance  

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  • Geographers’ use of the term resistance refers to three different, but interrelated, arenas of research: (1) social movements, (2) social protest, and (3) everyday and psychic forms of resistance. Thus, while the word resistance is something of a catch-all term and carries considerable intellectual baggage, it has come to serve as a useful mechanism by which a variety of different approaches to the study of social conflict, opposition to domination, and the assertion of power can be understood. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Resistance, Geographies of]

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