...Essentialist claims of that kind are untenable. What I do wish to assert, however, is that to the degree structures of domination can be demonstrated to operate...official transcript of power relations may be voiced. The specific forms (for example, linguistic disguises, ritual codes, taverns, fairs, the "hush-arbors"...

...state's plan of domination, for they enabled the peasantry to maintain what Scott has described as "social space" in which offstage dissent to the official transcript of power relations may be voiced. The specific forms (for example, linguistic disguises, ritual codes, taverns, fairs, the "hush arbors"...

...over 'material exploitation', Scott [1990: xi] characterizes 'hidden transcripts' as the way in which: 'slaves and serfs ordinarily dare not contest the...official transcript of power relations may be voiced.' 12. The attempt to deal with the 'catharsis through displacement' argument is outlined in Scott [1990:...

...power spoken behind the back of the dominant' (Scott 1990: xii). Behind the scenes, subordinate groups 'create and defend a social space in which offstage...official transcript of power relations may be voiced' (Scott 1990: xi). The practices and rituals of denigration and domination routinely generated by slavery,...

...equal, elicit reactions and patterns of resistance that are also broadly comparable."33 He continues: Thus, slaves and serfs ordinarily dare not contest...defend a social space in which offstage dissent to the officiai transcript of power relations may be voiced. The specific forms (for example, linguistic disguises,...

...of "social space" acquired increased significance. James Scott has described social space as sites "in which offstage dissent to the official transcript of power relations may be voiced. The specific forms (for example, linguistic disguises, ritual codes, taverns, fairs, the 'hush arbors'...

...power spoken behind the back of the dominant" (Scott 1990: xii). Behind the scenes, subordinate groups "create and defend a social space in which offstage...official transcript of power relations may be voiced" (xi). The practices and rituals of denigration and domination routinely generated by slavery, serfdom,...

...the oppressed, of those who "dare not contest the terms of their subordination openly," represents "a social space in which offstage dissent to the official transcript of power relations may be voiced."5 Here is to be found "an entire discourse, linked to ... culture, religion, and the experience...

...the Arts of Resistance (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990). Scott contends, for instance, "Slaves and serfs ordinarily dare not contest the...official transcript of power relations may be voiced." Scott, xi. Tongues Untied, then, is remarkable in the sense that Riggs and his collaborators refused...

...increasing income and employment levels, which are almost certainly the most effective means for Maori 'to create and defend a social space in which offstage...the official transcript of power relations may be voiced'.42 That Maori, almost universally, seek internal rather than secessionist models of self-determination,...