What we need to know to study contemporary resistance: the changing role of the corporeal body

This paper suggests that recent developments have transformed the role of the corporeal body in practices of resistance. While the significance of the resisting body has increased in some forms of resistance, in others the corporeal body matters less. In digital and juridical forms of dissent, concrete bodies, once the primary vehicles of resistance, take a back seat to digital cyborgs or interpassively outsource resistance to proxy legal subjects, documents, and institutional processes. At the same time, the human-nature divide and instrumental approaches to nature have given rise to new forms of multisensory resistance that recentre the corporeal body in new ways.