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Abstract
This article will examine irrationality in relation to the concept of resistance. Is there such a thing as an irrational resistance? While one tendency has been to irrationalise the ‘other’ and their resistance in order to construct a subaltern identity position, within the social sciences, an opposing tendency can also be identified; there is a trend to try to rationalise what seems to be people’s irrational behaviours. In this article, however, we will take a different stance by arguing that resistance is generally both irrational and rational depending on its relation to power.
Acknowledgements
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Swedish Research Council, which has awarded us to undertake research on a project entitled Globalization of Resistance: Influences on Democracy Advocators in Civil Society in the South from 2011 to 2015 (project No. 2010-2298). In addition, we would also like to express our gratitude to Annika Lundgren who invited Lilja to take part in a research project on irrational resistance granted by the Board of Artistic Research and Development, University of Gothenburg. Lundgren has contributed to this article with some interesting insights.
