Tactical resistance can be deployed by Islamophobes as well as their targets

Evidence

De Certeau distinguishes between the “strategies” employed by official forces (governments, urban planners, landowners) with power over space and everyday practices, what he calls the “tactics” deployed by those using space, “seized on the wing …‘ways of operating’: victories of the ‘weak’ over the ‘strong.’ ” … Yet The Submission presents us with a quandary in that “tactical” interventions are being made by two antithetical factions. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 278

Categorization

• DEFINE: The strategies/tactics distinction from De Certeau is a precise conceptual tool the reader can carry into Hamid and Naqvi readings.
• XREF: Extends the reader’s scheme of social-capital and power-analysis readings — the weak-vs-strong tactical frame resonates with her law-and-society background but is being turned on its head.