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Preface -- Contents -- 1 Dimensions of Resistance -- Abstract -- 1.1 Agents, Activities, Advocacies -- 1.1.1 Identifying Agents -- 1.1.2 Identifying Activities -- 1.1.3 Identifying Advocacies -- 1.2 Political Subject Formation -- 1.3 Approaching Brazil's Landless Movement -- 1.3.1 MST in Rio Grande Do Sul -- 1.3.2 Interviews and Observations -- 1.3.3 Jornal Sem Terra and Academic Literature -- 2 In Dialogue with the Past -- Abstract -- 2.1 Struggles Against Nation Building -- 2.1.1 Quilombos in Colonial Brazil -- 2.1.2 Indigenous Peoples and National Borders -- 2.1.3 Insurgencies at the Nation-State Margins -- 2.1.4 Rebellions Against the Republic -- 2.2 Struggles for Land -- 2.3 Struggles Continued -- 3 The Story -- Abstract -- 3.1 Academic Storytelling -- 3.2 Narrative Changes Over Time -- 3.3 Between Flexibility and Stability -- 4 Narrative Enactment -- Abstract -- 4.1 Becoming Protagonist -- 4.1.1 The Search for Autonomy -- 4.1.2 Agricultural Food Production -- 4.1.3 Divergent Experiences -- 4.2 Affixing the Antagonist -- 4.3 Performing Luta -- 5 Making History, Making Resistance -- Abstract -- Appendix: MST's Organizational Structure -- Glossary -- Resumo -- References

Whereas the sociology of food has drawn attention to differences between corporate and alternative foodways, the political imaginations underpinning the latter are often overlooked. This article distinguishes between different political imaginations of the community kitchen, a set of practices characterised by collective preparation and redistribution of food. The analysis builds on ethnographic and archive material in Sweden to outline how the folkkök (people's kitchen) was once an institutional practice to address urban food insecurity, soon outsourced as altruistic soup kitchens, and then regenerated a century later by the anarchist movement. By distinguishing between altruistic and anarchistic imaginations in this analysis, the article adds another layer to the critical sociological study of alternative foodways.

Tidigare forskning har visat att barn återkommande utsätts för rasism i den svenska skolan, en samhällsinstitution med målet att motverka alla former av diskriminering. Den här artikeln undersöker varför skolelever fortsätter att utsättas för rasism trots den svenska skolans antirasistiska ambitioner. Problemet angrips genom att analysera svensk vardagsrasism med hjälp av barns perspektiv. Artikeln bygger på åtta fokusgruppsintervjuer med mellanstadieelever och en grupp medforskande elvaåringar som bidragit till intervjuguiden och den empiriska analysen. Studieresultaten pekar på att vardagsrasismen förblir osynlig för vuxna, medan barn själva lyckas identifiera rasistiska mikroaggressioner i skolans vardag. Studien visar också att barn har antirasistiska intentioner men saknar nödvändigt stöd och skydd från vuxenvärlden för att kunna agera. Slutsatsen är att den svenska skolan behöver uppmärksamma vardagsrasismens subtila verkningar och att barns perspektiv kan bidra till en sådan lärandeprocess.

Crisis is a conceptual tool for synchronizing different experiences of time. It is operative in notions of the Financial Crisis, the Crisis of Democracy, the Climate Crisis—and the Corona Crisis. This article explores that synchronization through an empirical inquiry into the different timescapes of the Corona Crisis. It builds empirically on 200 interviews with residents in Norra Botkyrka, which is located at the fringes of Sweden's capital Stockholm. The thematic analysis shows how the respondents' different time frames, time orders, tempos, and timings become synchronized through the crisis concept, but also how they invoke active and passive desynchronization. This temporal diversity points out the interplay between social differences and the various ways people are (de)synchronizing with the Corona Crisis.

Whereas the sociology of food has drawn attention to differences between corporate and alternative foodways, the political imaginations underpinning the latter are often overlooked. This article distinguishes between different political imaginations of the community kitchen, a set of practices characterised by collective preparation and redistribution of food. The analysis builds on ethnographic and archive material in Sweden to outline how the folkkök (people's kitchen) was once an institutional practice to address urban food insecurity, soon outsourced as altruistic soup kitchens, and then regenerated a century later by the anarchist movement. By distinguishing between altruistic and anarchistic imaginations in this analysis, the article adds another layer to the critical sociological study of alternative foodways.

This article explores how anarchist women viewed the feminist struggle for suffrage in the early 1900s. By focusing on this ostensible historical anomaly — women against patriarchy refuting the call for women's suffrage — the article ventures into a plural history of feminism. The historiographic wave metaphor, typically employed to portray different stages of feminism, is here reimagined as radio waves. Through a variety of publications written by influential anarchist women, the article tunes into a broadcast that airs how anarchy expels patriarchy through a generic struggle against hierarchy. The case of anarchist women and women's suffrage arguably signposts how to productively invoke plurality in social movement historiography.

PurposeThis study aims to probe the ambiguity of posthuman heroism by revisiting the remarkable story of the children's literature icon Pippi Longstocking. The purpose is to explore with Pippi a non-anthropocentric living in the more-than-human world.Design/methodology/approachThe study's critical posthumanist analysis is empirically based on the American English translation of the Pippi book trilogy from the 1950s, as well as the Swedish TV series produced in 1969.FindingsPippi's posthuman power serves to conceptualize a move beyond the anthropocentric savior complex. The analysis exhibits a power used to defy, mock and resist authority, but always with the purpose of securing agency for Pippi and her community. This power to, rather than power over, becomes a creative force that builds a posthuman community between inorganic matter, human and nonhuman animals.Originality/valueInstead of showcasing a heroism to save our planet, Pippi animates how to relate differently to the more-than-human world. She is a productive fantasy, an idea materialized – a posthuman figuration – that extends the notion of community, opens up the demos and forcefully challenges anthropocentric normativity.

This paper discusses variegated scholarly approaches to what is here typified as a political economy of meat. Identified as a multifaceted, transdisciplinary and most dynamic field of research, inquiries into the political economy of meat imbricate key issues of social and economic development, across the human–animal divide. While some scholars interpret livestock production as "a pathway from poverty", others observe deepened marginalization and exploitation. The argument raised in this paper is that concise engagement with multiple critical perspectives may facilitate further explorations into the social dynamics that characterize the political economy of meat.

The past decades' substantial growth in globalized meat consumption continues to shape the international political economy of food and agriculture. This political economy of meat composes a site of contention; in Brazil, where livestock production is particularly thriving, large agri-food corporations are being challenged by alternative food networks. This article analyzes experiential and experimental accounts of such an actor—a collectivized pork cooperative tied to Brazil's Landless Movement—which seeks to navigate the political economy of meat. The ethnographic case study documents these livestock farmers' ambiguity towards complying with the capitalist commodification process, required by the intensifying meat market. Moreover, undertaking an intersectional approach, the article theorizes how animal-into-food commodification in turn depends on the speciesist logic, a normative human/non-human divide that endorses the meat commodity. Hence the article demonstrates how alternative food networks at once navigate confines of capitalist commodification and the speciesist logic that impels the political economy of meat.

The past decades' substantial growth in globalized meat consumption continues to shape the international political economy of food and agriculture. This political economy of meat composes a site of contention; in Brazil, where livestock production is particularly thriving, large agri-food corporations are being challenged by alternative food networks. This article analyzes experiential and experimental accounts of such an actor—a collectivized pork cooperative tied to Brazil's Landless Movement—which seeks to navigate the political economy of meat. The ethnographic case study documents these livestock farmers' ambiguity towards complying with the capitalist commodification process, required by the intensifying meat market. Moreover, undertaking an intersectional approach, the article theorizes how animal-into-food commodification in turn depends on the speciesist logic, a normative human/non-human divide that endorses the meat commodity. Hence the article demonstrates how alternative food networks at once navigate confines of capitalist commodification and the speciesist logic that impels the political economy of meat.

This paper discusses variegated scholarly approaches to what is here typified as a political economy of meat. Identified as a multifaceted, transdisciplinary and most dynamic field of research, inquiries into the political economy of meat imbricate key issues of social and economic development, across the human–animal divide. While some scholars interpret livestock production as "a pathway from poverty", others observe deepened marginalization and exploitation. The argument raised in this paper is that concise engagement with multiple critical perspectives may facilitate further explorations into the social dynamics that characterize the political economy of meat.

The production of meat has risen dramatically during the past decades. This process, generally referred to as the Livestock Revolution, particularly includes so called "developing countries", hosting the most intensive augmentation of both production and consumption. As agricultural activities often are performed by small-scale farmers in these countries, the principal question for this study has been how family farmers are affected by the Livestock Revolution. This study approaches the Livestock Revolution in Brazil, the world's biggest national exporter of meats and animal feeds, from the small-scale farmer perspective. Drawing on a case study of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state, it is argued that family farmers experience multi-level marginalization. Smallholders of pork and poultry face direct marginalization through vertical integration with the large-scale meat processors (the agribusiness). Other family farmers experience marginalization through the actual exclusion from 'integration', as the combined corporate forces of agribusiness and supermarket chains control the principal distributive channels. Small-scale farmers also face indirect marginalization as the increasing production of soybeans (used as animal feeds) and large-scale cattle raising create an unfortunate 'competition for arable land'. Overall, the case study seems to reflect a national tendency, in which the Livestock Revolution intensifies the polarization of the agrarian community in Brazil, thus creating parallel patterns of prosperity for the agribusiness and marginalization for the small-scale farmers. As the Food Regime analysis aims to approach the global political economy by analysing agri-food structures, this theoretical approach has been used to contextualize the case of Livestock Revolution in Brazil. From this viewpoint, the Livestock Revolution constitutes an explicit expression of a corporate Food Regime, increasing the power of private companies at the expense of family farmers. However, the Food Regime analysis also identifies divergent patterns of this Third Food Regime, in which the corporate discourse is being challenged by an alternative paradigm of food and agriculture. The marginalization of farmers in rural Brazil has indeed provoked emancipatory responses, including alternative patterns of production and distribution, as well as direct confrontations such as land occupations. This 'resistance from the margins' accentuates the conflict between contrasting visions for food and agriculture, apparently embedded in the Food Regime. The farmers' emancipation is therefore somewhat determined by the rather uncertain progress of the Third Food Regime.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword: Nordic Fascism and the Story of Coalescing Asteroids -- The Nature of Nordic Fascism: An Introduction -- 1. Early Nordic Fascism and Antisemitic Conspiracism -- 2. National Socialisms in Clinch: The Case of Norwegian National Socialists in Interwar Germany -- 3. A Pragmatic Revolutionary: R. Erik Serlachius and Fascist Visions of Society and Community -- 4. Nordic Heretics: A National Socialist Opposition in Norway and Denmark -- 5. Hidden Knowledge and Mythical Origins: Atlantis, Esoteric Fascism, and Nordic Racial Divinity -- 6. Esoteric Nordic Fascism: The Second Coming of Hitler and the Idea of the People -- 7. Window to Europe: Finland and Nordic Fascist Networks during the Cold War -- 8. Ethnocultural and Racial Ambiguities of National Socialist State-Building: Finland and the Nordic Resistance Movement -- Index.