Resistance practices should be read diagnostically rather than as heroic defiance.

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

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the strategic-essentialism/postcolonial cluster (Spivak) on how the subaltern’s practices are read by Western analysts, and to the vault’s existing interest in how epistemic frames produce or limit critique.