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Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts

James C. Scott
- 01 Dec 1991 - 
- Vol. 85, Iss: 4, pp 1454
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The first public declaration of the hidden transcript was made by as discussed by the authors, who argued that 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.
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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.

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Domination and the arts of resistance

The paper discusses the hidden transcripts and the arts of resistance used by subordinate groups to challenge domination.