“Can’t Mandy cure?!” Examining practices of cultural resistance within the Gypsy-Traveller community
研究吉普赛-游民社群日常生活中的非意图性文化抵抗行为，提出“日常的（超）寻常文化侵占”概念，并分析2022年苹果比马市中的视觉、节奏与声音维度。
Gypsy-Travellers have faced centuries of persecution, and yet previous engagement has largely focused on responses through frameworks of resilience rather than resistance. This paper extends this, alongside scholarship on resistance, by analysing how everyday Gypsy-Traveller practices coalesce to constitute non-intentional acts of cultural resistance. To capture this, I propose the concept cultural encroachments of the (extra)ordinary. This builds on Bayat’s (2013) notion of the quiet encroachment of the ordinary and embeds Feld’s (1996) acoustemology within Lefebvre’s (2004) rhythmanalysis to offer a more multidimensional and multisensory understanding of resistance, attending to visual, rhythmic, and sonic dimensions. It further contributes to ongoing discussions surrounding consciousness and intentionality within acts of resistance. Applying this to an analysis of the 2022 Appleby Horse Fair, I explore how non-political and non-intentional ordinary aspects of Gypsy-Traveller life coalesce into acts of cultural resistance.