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Post by Katrina Navickas on Apr 21, 2011 4:33:08 GMT -5
Is James C. Scott’s model of ‘everyday resistance’ and ‘hidden transcripts’ a useful model for the history of popular protest and collective action? Or does it stray too near to the old notion of ‘social crime’?
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Post by shaun0113 on May 2, 2011 12:06:42 GMT -5
Can you please explain what you are referring to.
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Post by Katrina Navickas on May 4, 2011 14:42:03 GMT -5
James C. Scott is an anthropologist who has greatly influenced historians of rural protest.
See his:
Weapons of the weak: everyday forms of peasant resistance (Yale, 1985) and
Domination and the arts of resistance: hidden transcripts (Yale, 1990).
His main idea includes the poor having agency through 'hidden transcripts'. This is a form of gossip and rumour behind the scenes, an idea that Barry Doyle and others have translated into historical terms as a 'culture of deference'.
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Post by shaun0113 on May 5, 2011 2:21:57 GMT -5
This seems to be stating the obvious, take the Luddite disturbances, reading the contemporary correspodence of magistrtates etc, it is obvious that they could not penetrate those communities where disturnabces were the greatest.
also a more modern example in the UK the gay community, prior to the 1967 Act, a secret language was in use that enabled them to communicate with each other.
Or where I come from Yorkshire dialects (and tere are many) are unintelligible to people not from that community.
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Post by shaun0113 on Dec 28, 2011 14:06:49 GMT -5
I have recently being reading The Experience of Labour in the 18th Century and what struck me is the views of those workers in trade unions and how much there views were still going strong in the nineteenth century, This seems to be especially true in relation to piece work, essentially everyone worked collectively to ensure that all the workers received an equal wage and this was enforced if necessary on new workers. This reminds me of an incident in Leeds in the 1820s when the workers in the woollen industry called for sharing of work with no loss of pay to agree to the introduction of new machinery. There is also a 20th century labour movement song about a sausage factory and piece work and the only scab ends up in a sausage.
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