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'.

. . . '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' (Scott 1990: 19). . . . Infrapolitics, in James C. Scott's work, refers to forms of political activity brewing beyond the gaze of authority. Scott (1990, p. 200) wrote: 'If formal political organization is the realm of elites [. . .] of written records [. . .] and public action, infrapolitics is, by contrast, the realm of informal leadership and nonelites, of conversation and oraldiscourse, and of surreptitious resistance.' Infrapolitics is a space where individuals and groups outline covert agendas to maintain themselves and, hopefully, thrive.' (jean michaud (net on hmong)

infrapolitics, n.All

infrapolitics