Scott, James 2009 The art of not being governed: An anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia. Yale University Press. 2009 (Chapters 1, 5, 7)

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Transition notes

From

Movement, participation, full (and learning)

To

Movement, resistant participation, exit from the 'community' (and possibly producing something else, though related)

Given an emperor (national government, global agencies, etc) with an army, schools (etc.) then ...

  1. Culture as disability
    1. The human production of handicaps with consequences for all
  2. Consequences for the governors and the anthropology of the "State"
    1. The dilemmas:
      1. localities,
      2. nations,
      3. empires
  3. Consequences for the governed
    1. Participation and cooptation
    2. Resistance
  4. Educating in Life
    1. From models of sharing to models of movement and transformation
    2. "education" as figuring out whatever "it's" one encounters and, in the process making various things new for others to deal with
  5. a word of caution

    Despite the considerable theoretical sophistication of many studies of resistance and their contribution to the widening of our definition of the political, it seems to me that because they are ultimately more concerned with finding resistors and explaining resistance than with examining power, they do not explore as fully as they might the implications of the forms of resistance they locate. In some of my own earlier work, as in that of others, there is perhaps a tendency to romanticize resistance, to read all forms of resistance as signs of the ineffectiveness of systems of power and of the resilience and creativity of the human spirit in its refusal to be dominated. (Abu-Lughod 1990: 41-42)