Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Communities of Resistance

PART I: INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: BETWEEN EXISTING AND RESISTING 

1. Rethinking the concept of community in its many forms within the fragmented society

Emiliana Mangone

2. Communities of resistance between empowerment and direct social action

Michele Sorice and Andrea Volterrani

3. Virtual Communities as Communities of Resistance: Past experiences and new challenges in the platform society

Estrella Gualda

PART II: RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE

4. Solidarities of difference as a theoretical foundation for communities of resistance

Tyler Correia

5. Religious communities as sites of resistance: Beyond identity

Debora Spini

6. Communities of food activists: Communication and prefigurative politics in Solidarity Purchasing Groups (GAS)

Marco Binotto

7. Commoning resistance: Food sovereignty and new rurality in the Cilento region in Southern Italy

Patrizia La Trecchia

8. From communities of resistance to resilient communities: Practices for building a new post-disaster social order

Francesca Cubeddu and Lucia Picarella

PART III: COMMUNITY PRACTICES: COLLECTIVE ACTION AND DIRECT SOCIAL ACTIONS

9. Communities: Between resisting and existing

Patricia Nakayama

10. Social and ethno-racial inequalities in Brazil: A look at anti-racist resistance struggles in contemporary times

Gisele Caroline Ribeiro Anselmo and Salyanna de Souza Silva

11. Indigenous peoples and Planetary Health: From resistance to governance

Ana Mª Ayuso Álvarez, Mireia Campanera Reig, Rosângela Azevedo Corrêa and Laura Pérez Gil

12. Confronting the state: Forming political communities, visibilising disapearance in Algeria

Ratiba Hadj-Moussa

13. (Re)claiming Taiwan: Indigenous people and Taiwanese energy transition – between reclaiming land, constructing identity, and building security

Tadeusz J. Rudek, Hui-Tzu Huang and Róża Rudek

14. Enabling or hindering resistant knowledge? Comparing interactions between state and anti-violence against women movements in Denmark and Italy

Pietro Demurtas and William Østerby Sørensen

15. Solidarity economy initiatives as communities of resistance in Lebanon

Rana Sukarieh

PART IV: ANTAGONISM AND CULTURAL RESISTANCE IN ANALOGICAL AND DIGITAL SPACE

16. Digital publics as emotional communities in therapeutic culture: The search for optimal emotion management for mindful problem solving (Mindfulness School in Contemporary Russia)

Olga A. Simonova, Alexey V. Weiser and Alexander Karushev

17. Affective publics and participatory security: digital communities of resistance in the Donnexstrada and Scrivi quando arrivi cases

Martina Masullo

18. Communities in the game world between online and offline: Virtual terrain between activism, social influence and resistance

Annachiara Guerra

19. Artistic practices and community of resistance: The encounter between kepler-452 and the ex-GKN Workers' Movement

Giulia Allegrini and Roberta Paltrinieri

20. Poetry between technocreative and community process

Alfonso Amendola

CONCLUSIONS

21. Conclusions: Community between practices and resistance – new challenges

Emiliana Mangone, Michele Sorice and Estrella Gualda

Biography

Emiliana Mangone is Full Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes at the Department of Political and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno (Italy). Her main research interests are in the field of cultural and institutional systems, with particular attention to the social representations, relational processes, knowledge, and narrative as key elements to the human act, in migration studies, and as well as the study of the thought of Pitirim A. Sorokin. She recently published: Towards a Sociology of Hope: Looking Beyond (with G. Gili) (2025) and Culture and Everyday Life in Rela(c)tion (with G. Russo) (2025).

Michele Sorice is Full Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Communication and Social Research (CoRiS), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His main research activities are in the field of critical sociology and critical media studies (communication and civic engagement, digital platforms and media, media and democracy, democratic innovation and participatory processes, political communication, neoliberalism and depoliticisation, digital activism and social movements). He recently published: The Public Role of Italian Sociology: Among Institutions, Universities and Social Engagement (The American Sociologist, 2024) (with L. Viviani) and Confini invisibili. Comunità liminali e pratiche di resistenza nella città neoliberista (2024) (with M.C. Antonucci and A. Volterrani).

Estrella Gualda is Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Huelva (Spain), where she served as Director of the Social Studies and Social Intervention Research Centre (1995–2026). She is a Full Member of the Academia Iberoamericana de La Rábida. Her current research focuses on social, political, economic and cultural issues, with emphasis on digital and computational sociology, including conspiracy theories and hate-related narratives, and advances in research methods, techniques, and software for the social sciences. She recently published: Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Augmented Analytics vs Big Data and Data Science: New Avenues for Social Research (Revista CENTRA de Ciencias Sociales, 2026).