Domination and the arts of resistance : hidden transcripts /

Domination and the arts of resistance : hidden transcripts /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Scott, James C., author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1990.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 251 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Passive resistance. Power (Social sciences) Dominance (Psychology) Interpersonal relations. Social groups. Dominance (Psychology) Interpersonal relations. Passive resistance. Power (Social sciences) Social groups. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11114369

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ISBN:	0585377510 9780585377513 9780300153569 0300153562 0300047053 0300056699 9780300047059 9780300056693 0300056699
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Confrontations between the powerless and the powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, labourers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power. These subordinate groups instead create a secret discourse that represents a critique of power spoken behind the backs of the dominant. At the same time, the powerful also develop a private dialogue about practices and goals of their rule that cannot be openly avowed. In this book, the author, a social scientist, offers a discussion both of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless and the mocking, vengeful tone they display off stage--what he terms their public and hidden transcripts. Using examples from the literature, history, and politics of cultures around the world, the author examines the many guises this interaction has taken throughout history and the tensions and contradictions it reflects. The author describes the ideological resistance of subordinate groups--their gossip, folktales, songs, jokes, and theater--their use of anonymity and ambiguity. He also analyzes how ruling elites attempt to convey an impression of hegemony through such devices as parades, state ceremony, and rituals of subordination and apology. Finally he identifies--with quotations that range from the recollections of American slaves to those of Russian citizens during the beginnings of Gorbachev's glasnost campaign--the political electricity generated among oppressed groups when, for the first time, the hidden transcript is spoken directly and publicly in the face of power.
Other form:	Print version: Scott, James C. Domination and the arts of resistance. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1990 0300047053

Table of Contents:

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.