Domination and the Arts of Resistence

Informationen zum Autor James C. Scott (1936-2024) was Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at Yale University. His many books include Seeing Like a State , Agrarian Studies , The Art of Not Being Governed , and Against the Grain . Klappentext The purpose of this book is to suggest how we might more successfully read, interpret, and understand the often fugitive political conduct of subordinate groups. A comparison of the hidden transcript of the weak with that of the powerful and of both hidden transcripts to the public transcript of power relations offers a substantially new way of understanding resistance to domination. Zusammenfassung An examination and discussion of the public and the hidden discourses (transcripts) of those who wield power and of those who feign deference to it. Examples are drawn from literature! history and politics to illustrate the many guises the interaction of such discourses can take. Inhaltsverzeichnis Behind the official story; domination! acting and fantasy; the public transcript as a respectable performance; false-consciousness or laying it on thick; making social space for a dissident subculture; voice under domination - the arts of political disguise; the infrapolitics of subordinate groups; a saturnalia of power - the first public declaration of the hidden transcript.

Product details

• Authors: James C. Scott
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.08.1992
• EAN: 9780300056693
• ISBN: 978-0-300-05669-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 233 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social groups, Political structure & processes, Social, group or collective psychology, Human rights, civil rights, Political structure and processes, Social groups, communities and identities