Domination & Arts of Resistance

• Class Relation

• Social Structure

• Different tune with the rich, another tune with the poor

• Different tune with the poor, another tune with the rich

• Hegemony

• Power

• Resistance & Domination

• Subordination

• Ideology

Power Discourse

• Sharply display in ‘Public Transcript’ & ‘Hidden Transcript’

• Hidden Transcript emerge as form of Resistance or Domination

• But, self interest reinforce hegemonic appearances/domination

Structural Similarity

• Dominated will bear resemblance to one another (slavery, caste, serfdom, colonial)

• Institutional arrangement, no political/civil rights

• Ascribed Status, Social Mobility is precluded

• Recognized Inferior & Superior

• Abundance scope of Arbitrary treatment

Power Relation/Public Transcript

• Tactics/misguided opinion

• Dominant discount Authenticity

• Deceitful/Stereotype

• Disguise/mask and surveillance

• Dialectic – explain cultural pattern of domination and subordination

How Dominant Dominates

• Not controlled the stage, but their wish prevail• ‘Public Transcript’ perform in close with their

plan• Subordinate endorse their subordination• ‘Transcripts’ are for same purpose but to diff.

audience • Domination gets legitimized • Weak has its own compulsion• Elites within subordinates act as middle player

Resistance

• Struggle waged by poor was guarded

• Instead of open, adopted safer course (anonymous) corruption, character asstn.

• Avoid act of Public Defiance

• Disguise, Deception

• Offstage, highly callous political culture

Hegemonic Culture

• Gratifying self-image of elite

• Contain certain paternalist/protective and flourish ideas

• Rhetorical space to accommodate subordinate’s interests

• Politics of disguise/anonymity-conceal the elite identity

Infrapolitics of Subordinates

• Low profile Resistance

• Helps Hegemonic Incorporation

• Not ‘Essentialist’ but almost

• Striving the same privilege (not alternative)

Reln of Domination & Resistance

• Sustaining Domination is not easy• Needs Reinforcement, Maintenance &

Adjustment• Affirmation, Concealment, Stigmatization

& Unanimity • Civil Ritual • Euphemizing Coercive Action• Reality Hidden until Contradiction become

Public