Modes of Resistance: Dissidence, Rebellion, and Revolutionary Struggle

Session Submission Type: In-Person Created Panel

Session Description

This panel convenes four papers to stage a comparative analysis of political resistance. Gabriel Vergara reconstructs Gramsci’s notion of ‘the modern prince’ to think through communicative forms of coercion, using Fidel Castro and his revolutionary struggle as a case study for Gramsci’s theory. Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel revisits the liberalism/republicanism debate, turning back to the Calvinist Monarchomacs as a resource for theorizing republican modes of resisting tyrannical government. Mark Jendrysik asks what rebellion and resistance mean in a free society, turning back to the case of Shays’ Rebellion and its reception in American history. Lastly, Aspen Elizabeth Brinton distills four concepts of dissidence from the work of Czech phenomenologist Jan Patočka as a springboard for imagining dissident practices for the future.

Sub Unit

• Division 1: Political Thought and Philosophy

Individual Presentations

• Jan Patočka and Political Theory: Four Concepts of Dissidence (Pre-Recorded) - Aspen Elizabeth Brinton, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Shays’ Rebellion as a Clash of Republican Visions - Mark Stephen Jendrysik, University of North Dakota

• The Right of Resistance: from the Monarchomacs to Modern Republicanism - Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel

• The Modern Prince: Consent, Coercion, and Fidel Castro - Gabriel Vergara, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Chair

• Benjamin McKean Ohio State University

Discussant

• Camila Vergara Columbia University