Andreas Petrossiants notes that Kristen Ross distinguishes between "resistance" and "defense, which is [contrastingly] grounded in a temporality and a set of priorities generated by the local community-in-the-making"
Ross: "Unlike resistance, defense starts with something that you already have, something you love, that you cherish. So, it begins with love, and the notion that there is something that you value that is worth defending. This sets up a different kind of temporality because you’re not following the state’s agenda or terms. What is really striking, especially in these movements that extend over a long duration, is that they have to reinvent themselves and figure out new, creative ways of inhabiting the struggle, sometimes over years. And so, what you’re defending necessarily changes over time. You might begin by defending, say, some agricultural land or an unpolluted area or a Black neighborhood, but over time, the main thing that you’re defending is the set of non-accumulative social relations that have developed over the course of the defense."