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Social resistance to globalization forces is increasingly becoming a popular movement around the world. While much scholarly research has been carried out on social resistance movements at the global level little is known about the strengths and weaknesses of social resistance t…

Scholarship from various fields including history, Vichy studies, sociology, and musicology have dissected myths surrounding the Occupation of France (1940-1944), which fall into two generalities of total collaboration or total resistance. The reality lies in the middle, in whic…

This research is born from a conscious reflection on the roles and judgements that traditional scientific analyses imprint in its objects of study, especially in the field of social movement theory. It aims to understand whether and, to which extent, autonomous resistances knowl…

An examination of the role of the Kuwaiti resistance movement in the liberation of Kuwait from the Iraqi occupation of 1990, this dissertation focuses on the military, civilian, and media tactics used by the resistance movement against the Iraqi army. It relies on both Kuwaiti s…