Collective resistance roundtable discussion

Abstract

ABSTRACT Indu Jain, Julia Listengarten, Stefanie Gabriele Sachsenmaier, and Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva were invited to participate in a roundtable discussion on ‘Collective Resistance’, chaired by Jason Benson, as part of the conference, Borderlines IX: Seeking Solidarity and Wonder Through Performance, which took place at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, on 30 June and 1 July 2022. The speakers were asked to provide a 5-minute provocation stemming from their own research perspective, and then engaged in conversation stemming from themes, concerns and ideas resulting from those provocations. The provocations precede this article. What follows is the text of the discussion between participants, which was edited by Alissa Clarke and Julia Listengarten with Harriet Curtis. The roundtable discussion considers collective resistance in relation to: ‘making strange’; a process-centred approach; making the invisible visible; sharing the space with others; forging solidarity with the audience; amplifying the individual voice within the collective; articulating alternative aggressive forms of solidarity.