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"Weapons of the Weak" challenges conventional understandings of peasant resistance by focusing on the subtle, often overlooked ways that peasants resist domination. Rather than focusing on dramatic uprisings, Scott examines the everyday acts of resistance that occur in the shadows of power. Key Arguments Resistance is not always visible: Scott argues that resistance is not limited to organized rebellions. Everyday acts like foot-dragging, gossip, feigned ignorance, and petty theft can be...
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Cooke and Kothari argue that the seductive claims of participation often provide cover for shallow and tokenistic development practices that fail to address unequal power relationships. This paper provides a novel mechanism that documents and enables a three-dimensional analysis of (a) who participates (b) at which project stages and (c) at what level of agency and power. No other mechanism was found in the literature for systematically tracing and analysing changes in power relationship...
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