The Seductions of Resistance: Power, Politics, and a Performative Style of Systems

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space - Tập 20 Số 4 - Trang 383-400 - 2002
Mitch Rose1
1Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, England

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Studies of resistance challenge overly structural conceptions of social systems by emphasizing the various forms of creative practice operating within hegemonic space. Yet, by illustrating the different ways that agents respond to a dominant system, resistance theory inadvertently establishes that system as a preestablished entity. Thus, although resistance theory endeavours to recognize the ongoing deconstructs of systems, it simultaneously reifies the system as primary. In response, I argue that this problem is not indicative of a flaw in resistance theory per se, but rather of a flaw in the conception of systems it operates with. Drawing upon Butler's work on performativity, I develop an alternative theory of systems that accounts for social coherence and stratified relations of power through creative forms of social practice alone. Rather than depending on sociostructural concepts such as ideology, hegemony, and normative space, a performative theory of systems situates creative social practice as the engine of social coherence. In this framework theories of resistance are redundant because creative practices are the rule of systems rather than a challenge to their stability.

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Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Tập 20 Số 4

383-400

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