Abstract:

Foucault’s analysis of power and understanding of resistance were criticized both when he was alive and after his death. The main framework of the criticisms is built upon Foucault’s nihilism and the assertion that he offered no alternatives to the existing order. Without seeking to come up with answers to such criticisms, what needs to be done is to analyse the notion of “resistance” in Foucault’s theory and the sphere of interpretation produced by him in relation with oppositionary political and ethical practices, which is inevitably tied to the philosophy of Nietzsche.symmetrical plane with forces of power? And if yes, how is such resistance possible?” must be analysed on the basis of current examples of resistance and their common points. The narration analysed by Adorno and Horkheimer as a type of legal contract through the example of Odysseus will be analysed under the light of the tendency/capacity of resistance to transform into a counter-power.There are multiple and varied movements of resistance today, which cannot simply be reduced to class struggles or national liberation movements: Feminists, LGBT movements, struggles against the discriminations against children or the handicapped, environmentalist movements, struggles for the cultural and collective rights of ethnic, religious and sectarian groups, movements fundamentally questioning the education, health and justice systems, transfrontier struggle agencies and many others. What are the common points of these struggles rendering them different from the traditional struggles? The new relationship established by such movements in the game of demanding from the power; their character lacking any center and moving beyond borders; their targeting of the nearest agency of power; their questioning of the impacts of power and integration of knowledge and power; their approaches to the issues of governing and being governed; the questioning of the position of their lives and individuals within the resistances... These will be the main aspects which will be analysed in the article.Such features of the new types of struggles and resistances will be evaluated in relation with movements including Gezi, Tahrir and Rojava and within the framework of community

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