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Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts Paperback - 1992

by James C. Scott

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"A splendid study, surely one of the most important that has appeared on the whole matter of power and resistance."--Natalie Zemon Davis

Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, laborers, 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, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating 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, Scott examines the many guises this interaction has taken throughout history and the tensions and contradictions it reflects.

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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.

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  • Title Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
  • Author James C. Scott
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 269
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Publication date July 29, 1992
  • ISBN 9780300056693 / 0300056699
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.12 x 0.77 in (23.72 x 15.54 x 1.96 cm)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.4

About the author

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.

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