Resistance and Authority

Abstract

Resisting unjust regimes, in contemporary conditions, raises a range of complex normative questions. If government authority is a matter of extent rather than a binary (as theorized by Jubb) what does this mean for resistance in different kinds of regime? Must a regime have lost authority for others groups to act as legitimate agents of justice supplementing the state? What ethical standards, if any, should constrain resistance in authoritarian regimes and semi-democratic contexts? Where activists seek to displace existing regimes what, if anything, can give them the authority to do so? What conditions need to be in place for justice to be legitimately achieved? Must resistance take place outside of flawed institutions or can it take place within problematic structures? To what extent can the academy be a site of resistance and what problems are there with attempting such work? We examine these questions in a variety of contexts focusing primarily on European examples.

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