The Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests are recurring phenomenon in the last years that have gained media coverage (Ghandnoosh, 2015). They are a response to a long-standing problems with police racism, excessive force, and abuse especially in United States as well as in other countries (Ghandnoosh, 2015).. These BLM protest continues to be a recurring topic on social media (Ghandnoosh, 2015). Thereby, they have sparked multiple discussions over the methods of mobilization. Some argues that the means the protesters uses are too aggressive. This due to the fact that people go out, stop traffic in some cases destroy property. However, these known facts are not the only way that individuals are currently participating in social issues. Some have …show more content…
In the following, different anthropologists have given their definition of the word. In her article, Audra Simpson (2016) define refusal as the revenge of consent. She bases her definition on her observation on the Kahnawà:ke Mohawks refusing to recognize Canada as their sovereign government (Simpson, 2016). In order for Canadian governance to be recognize by the Kahnawà:ke Mohawk , there must be a consent from the Mohawk people giving the Canadian government permission to protect them and their interest in exchange for their loyalty and renouncing their self-governance (Simpson, 2016). However, it becomes problematic when one consider the history of broken promises, unauthorized consent and unfairness between indigenous people and the Canadian government. This creates a mistrust toward the state (Simpson, 2016). Therefore, it is understandable the Mohawks people refusal to accept Canada as their government since they never consent to the colonial lifestyle. Thus, by refusing to consent to the apparatuses of the state, Mohawks have taken revenge on the …show more content…
The knowledge one receive from these articles provides a platform for critical thinking. For instance, the word refusal was associated to resistance but with new theories developing, ideas on the subject has changed (McGranahan, 2016). Simpson argues that there is insufficiency in scholarly work when discussing concepts of resistance (Simpson, 2016). The concept of resistance focus more on the recognizing and theorizing the nature and forms of domination Lila Abu-Lughod (1990, 41) . In the articles, McGranahan state anthropologists need “to recognize and theorize refusal as an element of social and political relations, and to do so in ethnographically specific contexts, rather than positing within domination and