Extraits
[...] Justement parce qu'une telle action politique est méticuleusement étudiée pour être anonyme ou nier sa raison d'être, les infrapolitiques nécessitent plus qu'une petite interprétation. Les choses ne sont pas exactement ce qu'elles semblent être. La logique de couverture mise en place par les infrapolitiques s'étend à son organisation, ainsi qu'à sa substance. Encore une fois, la forme d'une organisation est aussi bien un produit de nécessité politique qu'un choix politique. Parce que l'activité politique ouverte n'est en aucun cas exclue, la résistance est confinée aux réseaux de parents, voisins, amis, et communautés plutôt qu'à des organisations formelles ou officielles. 5. [...]
[...] It has a double meaning, and should protect the identity of its actors . As previously, this is illustrated with the example of slavery and hidden revenge. Some concrete examples of infrapolitics are anonymous letters, stealing, rumours, gossips, etc. Their purpose is to harm, without revealing their author. Scott defines the infrapolitics has the weapon of the weak. The narrator mentions the ethiopan proverb mentions in James Scott's preambule, which is a perfect example of infrapolitics : "When the great lord passes the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts." The last part is about the fourth and last way of discourse, called Breaking the silence. [...]
[...] During many years, some crimes were not acknowledged or recognized because their perpetrators would not want to take responsibilities. Most of the time, the hidden transcript is only oral, and we cannot find any written trace of it, making it harder to be reminded. Nowadays, this is made easier thanks to personal writings, but to take the example used many times by James Scott, during slavery times, slaves would not have the possibility to write down any of their private interactions, making it secret from the rest of the world. [...]
[...] About James Scott's theory 1. James Scott is a professor of political science at the University of Yale. He also conducts research as an anthropologist. He is a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies, subaltern politics, and anarchism. James Scott mainly studied how subordinated people resist domination, in different parts of the world and throughout the years. He wrote more than ten books about the subjects, and received grants to help him pursue his research. James Scott is really invested in his work, and went to live in different places in order to better understand his subjects. [...]
[...] masked appropriations, threats, anonymous threats Hidden transcript of anger, aggression, and disguised discourses of dignity e.g., rituals of aggression, tales of revenge, use of carnival symbolism, gossip, rumor, creation of autonomous social space for assertion of dignity Development of dissident subcultures e.g., millennial religions, slave "hush-arbors", folk religion, myths of social banditry and class heroes, world- upside-down imagery, myths of the "good" king of the time before de "Norman Yoke" c. Infrapolitics is the opposite as open resistance, as it is the ensemble of actions that are non-visible in order to respond to a manipulative domination. d. It has been ignored because it takes place at a level, we rarely recognize as political. e. Scott thinks it is important to study and discuss the matter to make sure this would not happen again. 4. [...]
