Preserving worlds through words.
The Philosophy
of Resistance
A curated series by thinkers across philosophy, literature, historiography, sociology, and art.
Resistance as a response to structure has been—and will be—an answer as long as structural systems, power dynamics, social frameworks, and institutional frameworks govern bodies. This collection is meeting place for academia to reach out and the public to reach toward.
a response to structure
& oppressive frameworks
RESISTANCE
Introduction & Format
Resistance as applied thought and a meta-ethic creates a gap that harms both the public and academia. Because academia provides privileged access to information, the public is not always fortunate to engage deeply with it due to the oversaturation of information. We end up with an approach to knowledge that misses each other. We lose the possibility of mutual recognition and shared insight. This call is an approach for academia to reach out, and the public to reach toward.
Scholars like Mbembe hint at the lack of possible resistance from the living dead in his notion of Necropolitics. Giorgio Agamben discusses the impossibilities of resistance with states of bare life in Homo Sacer. Baudrillard notes its relation to power, but power as a simulacrum of itself, always seeking to end what points at its absence. Camu attempts to encompass it but misses a radical view of resistance as he believes no situation justifies violence as legitimate in itself. With oppressive frameworks, we see how suffering changes the approach to the ways we think about resistance.
Papers should be 3000-7000 words. Longer papers are accepted on a case-by-case basis based on merit of scholarship. Please use 12-point font. British English ending of words -ise (organize, realise, recongnise, theorise, criticise) should be used over -ize. Judgment should be ‘judgement’ with an ‘e’ unless referring to legal judgment. The full form of verbs, e.g. I cannot (not I can't), we do not (not we don't) etc. Single quotations should replace double quotations (should be ‘this’, instead of “this”) and should be inside of punctuation, unless quoting an entire sentence (with this, ‘this would be correct’. With this, ‘this would be incorrect.’)
Please submit docx file and a PDF for review. Manuscripts chosen for publication must eventually conform to The Chicago Manual of Style, seventeenth edition. Include a SEPARATE LIST OF WORKS CITED at the end of the paper, using FULL AUTHOR NAMES (not first initials).
-Ethnographic approaches to resistance
-Historical examinations of resistance
-The philosophy of resistance
-Resistance and suffering
-The metaphysics of resistance
-The ethics of resistance
-Power and resistance
-Ableism and resistance
-Ecological resistance
-Decolonial frameworks of resistance (including critical gender, feminist, trans, and queer studies)
-The black radical tradition and resistance
-Migration and resistance
-Race and resistance
-Religion and resistance.
All thinkers are encouraged to submit to allow for a wider examination of the theme. All submissions will go through blind peer review. Please submit a short bio, no more than 150 words. Bios are used for printing of selected articles and not for review. Please submit an abstract of 300-500 words to awatum@ofeverything.co by July 31st. Full essays are due by September 1st, with a round or edits to be sent back. January 1 is the last day for submission of edits. Final papers will be submitted through Duosuma.
The edited volume will be released in the summer of 2026, printed and distributed through Awatum Press. Contributors will receive a copy of the book, and the cost of the flight to any awards on behalf of the press. contributors
