Anthropology › Section H · Political anthropology › Topic H.5
Resistance, revolution, and social movements
Politics does not happen only in parliaments. People grumble, drag their feet, march, occupy, petition and sometimes overthrow governments. Anthropologists study these actions up close, asking what people resist, how they do it and what their struggles reveal about power.
In this topic
- Politics outside government
- Resistance, reform and revolution
- Parties and movements
- Everyday resistance
- Worked example: is it resistance?
- The romance of resistance
- Revolution and its uncertain outcomes
- Law, harmony and control
- Indigenous and environmental movements
- Worked example: two ways of seeing a mountain
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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