« Much
of our attention will be devoted to what I have chosen to call
the infrapolitics
of subordinate groups. By this I mean to designate a wide variety
of low profile forms of resistance that dare not speak in their
own name. (…) The term infrapolitics (…) seems an appropriate
shorthand to convey the idea that we are dealing with an unobtrusive
realm of political struggle. (…) That it should be invisible
(…) is in large part by design- a tactical choice born of
a prudent awareness of the balance of power. (…) The term
infrapolitics is, I think, appropriate in still another way. When
we speak of the the infrastructure for commerce we have in mind
the facilities that make such commerce possible: for example, transport,
banking, currency, property and contract law. In the same fashion,
I mean to suggest that the infrapolitics (…) provides much
of the cultural and structural underpinning of the more visible
political action on which our attention ahs generally been focused. »
James Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance, Hidden Transcripts, New Haven
and London, Yale University Press, 1990.
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