Tag: subversion

The resistance of the post-colonial is better defined by what de Certeau refers 
to as ‘tactics’ rather than ‘strategies’. Strategy is ‘the calculation …of power 
relationships that becomes possible as soon as a subject with will and power (a
business, an army, a city, a scientific institution) can be isolated’ (de Certeau,
1984: 36). A ‘tactic’, on the other hand, is ‘a calculated action determined by 
the absence of a proper locus’ (ibid.: 37). ‘The space of the tactic is the space 
of the other. Thus it must play on and with a terrain imposed on it and organized
by the law of a foreign power’ (ibid.).9 ‘In short, a tactic is an art of the weak’ (ibid.)