This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork with No TAV activists in Valsusa, in Alpine Italy, protesting against the planned construction of a new high-speed railway. Focusing on activists’ experiences of vulnerability and police violence, the article contributes to the recent ‘subjective turn’ in the anthropology of resistance and contentious social movements, and responds to calls to ‘de-pathologize’ and ‘de-exoticize’ resistance. It explores ways to reconceptualize the subjective experience of resistance through a focus on affect, vulnerability and becoming. Combining neo-Spinozist theory of affects with Judith Butler’s feminist perspective on agency and subjectivity, the article seeks to point a way beyond the limitations of established approaches informed by the work of Michel Foucault. Further, the article also shows how affects experienced during direct action are embedded in activists’ longer biographical narratives and gradually structured, through remembering and narrativization, to provide ground for a coherent subjective sense of agency. Third, the article highlights the difference a focus on affect makes compared to the more conventional sociological focus on emotion. The notion of affect helps us to move beyond a rationalist and instrumentalist approach to emotion in social movements. The article stresses the heuristic potential of a focus on affect, but also considers methodological challenges posed by such a perspective. It suggests that the methodological toolkit available to the ethnographers of contentious politics can be enhanced by drawing on the affective capacities of researchers’ own bodies in order to register the visceral intensities vital to the experience of resistance and the ongoing formation of insubordinate subjects.

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通过影响来重新考虑抵抗

本文借鉴了意大利阿尔卑斯山州瓦尔苏萨（Valsusa）没有TAV活动家的民族志田野调查，抗议计划中的新高速铁路的建设。文章以积极分子对脆弱性和警察暴力的经历为重点，对抵抗学和有争议的社会运动的人类学最近的“主观转向”做出了贡献，并回应了对“去病态化”和“去异化”抵抗的呼吁。它探讨了通过关注情感，脆弱性和成为性来重新构想抵抗的主观体验的方法。本文将新斯派诺兹主义的情感理论与朱迪思·巴特勒的女性主义关于代理和主观性的观点相结合，力求指出一种超越米歇尔·福柯作品所确立的既定方法的局限性的方法。进一步，文章还显示了直接行动中经历的情感如何被嵌入到维权人士较长的传记叙事中，并通过记忆和叙事逐渐形成，从而为连贯的主观能动感提供了基础。第三，文章强调了与传统的社会学对情感的关注相比，关注情感的区别。情感的概念帮助我们超越了理性主义和工具主义的方法来处理社会运动中的情感。本文强调了关注情感的启发性潜力，但同时也考虑了这种观点所带来的方法挑战。