The question of how power manifested itself in the past, and crucially at different scales, is of central concern to many local and regional historians. So too are local and regional responses to power including both active and passive resistance to those who wielded it or what it represented.
Power here is broadly defined as the inequitable relationships between those groups, individuals and institutions that exercise control, authority or coercion over the actions of those seen as subordinate. This may include, but is not limited to, local and regional governments or landowners, but can also include other forms of official and unofficial cultural, social, economic, religious and political power both within and outside formal institutions. We are interested in historical research that explores relationships of power in regional or local contexts anywhere in the world, which includes manifestations and expressions of power as well as resistance to, and subversion of it, in any form.
In this Special Issue we look to gather together studies which examine these dynamics in their various and multitudinous forms. We encourage submissions of new research rooted in local and/or regional case studies across all time periods and geographic locations (globally). We would be particularly interested in receiving articles that explore the following:
- Relationships of power on local and/or regional scales
- Local and regional structures of power
- Origins and legacies of local and regional power
- Interaction of regions and/or locales with centralised power
- Interplay of secular and religious power at local or regional scales
- Power and resistance in rural and urban contexts
- Power and resistance and the formulation of regional identities
- Power, resistance, and gender
- Power, resistance, and the law
- Race, ethnicity, and relationships of power
- Power and resistance in the workplace
- Mapping power and resistance
- Cultures of resistance: writings, music, art, performance, and protest
- Indigenous resistance to colonial powers
- Public and private, collective and individual, resistance
- Local acts of resistance
- Locales and regions during periods of power vacuum or transition
