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Organizing solidarity initiatives: a socio-spatial conceptualization of resistance

Organizing solidarity initiatives: a socio-spatial conceptualization of resistance
Organizing solidarity initiatives: a socio-spatial conceptualization of resistance
This paper offers a spatial conceptualization of resistance by focusing on the practices through which solidarity initiatives constitute new resistance socio-spatialities. We discuss two solidarity initiatives in Greece, WCNA and Vio.Me.SI, and explore how they institute distinctive local and translocal organizational practices that make the production of new forms of resistance possible. In particular, we adopt a productive and transformative view of resistance. First, we identify three local practices of organizing solidarity initiatives, namely, the organization of general assembly meetings, the constitution of resistance laboratories and the (re)articulation of socio-spatial relations in local sites. Then, we turn to flows, movements and translocal social formations, and examine the role of solidarity mobilizations, the material and symbolic co-production of resources and members’ mobility in the production of resistance. We conclude that new resistance socio-spatialities become constitutive of a broader reconfiguration of political agencies, a creative process that challenges existing relations and invites alternative ways of working and organizing.© 2017 published by SAGE. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Organization Studies, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0170840617709304. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.
Alternative Organizing, Resistance
0170-8406
1303-1325
Daskalaki, Maria
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Kokkinidis, George
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Daskalaki, Maria
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Kokkinidis, George
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Daskalaki, Maria and Kokkinidis, George (2017) Organizing solidarity initiatives: a socio-spatial conceptualization of resistance. Organization Studies, 38 (9), 1303-1325. (doi:10.1177/0170840617709304).

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This paper offers a spatial conceptualization of resistance by focusing on the practices through which solidarity initiatives constitute new resistance socio-spatialities. We discuss two solidarity initiatives in Greece, WCNA and Vio.Me.SI, and explore how they institute distinctive local and translocal organizational practices that make the production of new forms of resistance possible. In particular, we adopt a productive and transformative view of resistance. First, we identify three local practices of organizing solidarity initiatives, namely, the organization of general assembly meetings, the constitution of resistance laboratories and the (re)articulation of socio-spatial relations in local sites. Then, we turn to flows, movements and translocal social formations, and examine the role of solidarity mobilizations, the material and symbolic co-production of resources and members’ mobility in the production of resistance. We conclude that new resistance socio-spatialities become constitutive of a broader reconfiguration of political agencies, a creative process that challenges existing relations and invites alternative ways of working and organizing.© 2017 published by SAGE. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Organization Studies, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0170840617709304. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

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Accepted/In Press date: 1 April 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 30 July 2017
Published date: 1 September 2017
Keywords: Alternative Organizing, Resistance

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Local EPrints ID: 443272
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/443272
ISSN: 0170-8406
PURE UUID: 05335170-d0de-4936-a6fb-8f889b8bbf76
ORCID for Maria Daskalaki: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7860-1955

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Author: George Kokkinidis

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