Explain the significance of resistance within political anthropology

Question 1

How to define resistance in the introduction?

Answer 1

A response to domination

Question 2

What is the argument

Answer 2

Anywhere that here are forms of domination, there will be some form of resistance so long as one pays attention to different scales

Question 3

Rather than only large scale forms of resistance what also must be acknowledged?

Answer 3

That which is easily obscured

Question 4

Which aspects of resistance need to be understood

Answer 4

Affective aspects

Question 5

What is the first paragraph?

Answer 5

Marx vs Weber

Question 6

What is the idea of Marx

Answer 6

False consciousness. The proletariat do not appreciate their own exploitation. They would resist if they understood

Question 7

What is the argument of Weber

Answer 7

Even though people do not revolt, t hey are aware that they are being dominated. They believe it to be in their interest for whatever reason, for example they might think that it is more orderly.

Question 8

What is the second paragraph, and how does it build on the first

Answer 8

Scale and Scott. Both Marx and Weber put too much weight on the idea of large scale forms of resistance such as revolution

Question 9

What does James Scott do in 1985

Answer 9

Disagree with the Gramscian idea of hegemony, because he does not think that the dominated consent to their domination

Question 10

What does James Scott do in 1990

Answer 10

He argues that subordinate groups employ infrapolitics against the oppressors

Question 11

What argument can you make about infrapolitics based on the USA and racial discrimination

Answer 11

Inverse of micro aggressions

Question 12

What are the three ehtngorpahic examples for this essay

Answer 12

Abu Lughod and the resistance of bedouin women
Jansen 2014 besieged Sarajevo Suburb
Harvey and Knox 2012 peru

Question 13

According to Abu-Lughod, how do Bedouin women resist?

Answer 13

Through small choices such as underwear and poetry. Even if they themselves do not resist the broad idea of arrange marriage, they still work to get the most desirable outcome for themselves

Question 14

What is the critique after the paragraph concerning scale and Scott 1985 and 1990

Answer 14

Ortner 1995 (easy to remember as the three come in 5 year gaps)

Question 15

What is Ortner 1995’s critique

Answer 15

That if you define the category so broadly, its analytical value is lost

Question 16

How to critique Ortner’s argument

Answer 16

You really need to understand what happens affectedly. Then, if the intent of the action is resistance then it will be clear that that is what it is.

Question 17

What is a good part of Ortner’s argument

Answer 17

That there has been inefficient attention paid to resistance within ethnography and anthropology

Question 18

What can Abu Lughod (1990) be integrated with (next paragraph after Ortner)

Answer 18

Foucault

Question 19

How does Foucault see resistance ?

Answer 19

as a diagnostic of power

Question 20

Who argues that Foucault is insufficiently empowering in regard to resistance?

Answer 20

Pickett

Question 21

Pickett argues that which specific aspect of Foucault’s work is particularly unempowering ?

Answer 21

early work

Question 22

What aspect of Foucualt’s work is beneficial to this essay

Answer 22

The emphasis on the small scale acts that constitute power

Question 23

What is the final paragraph?

Answer 23

Desire for domination

Question 24

What does the final paragraph draw on

Answer 24

Jansen 2014 and Harvey and Knox 2012

Question 25

What is the deal with Harvey and Knox 2012

Answer 25

The indigenous peruvians want roads from the government, even if this means exporting the state’s most repressive aspects. It is conceived of as a way to escape marginalisation, even though it is the government who has marginalised them.

Question 26

What is the deal with jansen 2014

Answer 26

Looks at a Sarajevo suburb post-war. Here people cling onto signs of domination as emblems of pre-war stability.

Question 27

What is the critique of Jansen

Answer 27

Even if they were once symbols of domination, that does not mean that, if they are understood affectively, that they should still be understood in the same way

Question 28

What did Foucault write about resistance?

Answer 28

Where there is power, there is resistance.

Question 29

What village does Scott do his fieldwork in?

Answer 29

Sadakha