Tag: weapons of the weak

• Political Art as a tactical innovation of 20th century social movements

  

  This report addresses Scott’s description of Weapons of the Weak as apolitical (Scott, 1985), and instead argues that the intentional, quiet, largely individualistic and prolonged acts of defiance of the imagined communities of resistors to the dominant power, are forms of tactical innovation (McAdam, 1983). These acts are motivated by the consciousness of the powerless,…

  April Marie Canillo

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