James C. Scott
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Infrapolitics is a politics of disguise and anonymity that takes place in public view but is designed to have a double meaning or to shield the identity [and/or ideology] of the actors'.
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Metis is the 'art of the locality', it resist simplification into deductive principles because the environments in which it is exercised are so complex and nonrepeatable that formal procedures of rational decision making are impossible to apply.
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Moral economy is a notion of economic justice and a working definition of exploitation which permitted us 'to move toward a fuller appreciation of the normative roots of peasant politics.
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Resistance is concerned not only with material appropriation but also with the pattern of personal humiliations that characterize that exploitation.
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Resistance is found in the 'everyday forms of peasant resistance,' even when such resistance seems foolhardy such as work slow-downs or damaging and destroying property owned by their oppressors.
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Resistance is not limited to actions with revolutionary consequences or selflessness, and can even have unintended consequences.
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Resistance is whatever peasants do to deny to mitigate claims by appropriating classes or to press their own claims vis-a-vis these superordinate classes.
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The State is that institution which is unique in having the material and coercive resources to move people around, build cities and settlements, and has an interest in the mapping and and listing populations for the purpose of taxation and control.