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June 20, 2026European Journal of Women s StudiesOpen Access

After 5:30 PM: When rest is no longer resistance

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VDVi Khanh Dao

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Overview

Essay explores how rest serves as a politically constrained strategy in organizations facing state governance.

Key Points

  • This essay examines how rest is framed as either resistance or compliance within feminist movements and organizational contexts.
  • Case study of a feminist organization in Vietnam
  • Analysis of administrative rhythms and work-life balance practices
  • Conceptual framework introducing 'soft governance' and 'fugitive spaces'.
  • Rest shifts from a resistance tool to a strategy for institutional survival under state governance.
  • Activists experience cognitive labor navigating political limits, leading to self-censorship.
  • Institutionalized rest can stabilize existing power structures while diffusing potential unrest.

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Vi Khanh Dao (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a36309edb0793dc1a537c33https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068261457018
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