Reading all resistance as heroic obscures how power actually works

Evidence

Yet it seems to me that we respect everyday resistance not just by arguing for the dignity or heroism of the resisters but by letting their practices teach us about complex interworkings of historically changing structures of power. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 80 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Resistance reveals power’s hidden locations and methods better than studying power itself — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 74; Resistance efforts can be complicit with the very exclusionary power they oppose — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1243; A guerrilla’s power rests in incarnating the whole people’s resistance (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Resistance practices should be read diagnostically rather than as heroic defiance. #corroborates (0.95) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 80