What is ORGANIZED RESISTANCE? This is a concept of social movement I am currently working on for my project on nuclear politics in Indonesia. What does it mean? Hmm….basically it’s about how various groups of civil society shared by a common concern on particular issues (e.g. risks of nuclear power in my case) have come to confront the big brother, i.e. the state that holds authority to create the problem-making (instead of problem-solving) policy.
What characterizes organized resistance is a network of multiple groups (in my case activists, academics, scientists, businessmen, religious leaders, labors, farmers, and local residents). These resisting groups organize information, agendas of action, and disseminate knowledge regarding the ensuing problem. They are all united by a common goal of rejecting, and to some cases, offering alternative approach to solving the perceived problem (e.g. energy security in my case).
What make organized resistance unique is that it is a kind of self-organization capacity built by civil society to challenge technocratic policies. More importantly, it has capacity to develop its own intelligence using local resources and intellectualism.
on the event in the picture, read here
