The journalist as a resistant subject
James Scott and everyday resistance in journalism
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https://doi.org/10.29105/gmjmx19.36-469Keywords:
everyday resistance, James C. Scott, resistance in journalism, subtle resistance, hidden forms of resistanceAbstract
This proposal constitutes a theoretical approach to resistances in the journalistic field. Based on a theoretical and conceptual review, it explores to what extent the postulates of the American political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott on everyday resistance could serve as a starting point and support an investigation on the resistance of journalists in their production, practices, and routines. The capacity to resist can be considered an inherent characteristic of the individual, so that journalists can also oppose, resist, confront, face, evade, and question the power relations or situations of conflict that are generated in their daily and working spaces. This study argues that resistances in the journalistic field have points in common with Scott's notions of everyday resistances, given that journalists' resistances can very rarely occur in terms of "insurrection" or in an open and declared manner, but rather as everyday micro resistances, daily, subtle, and covert behaviors and attitudes. In line with this, it is proposed to study journalists' daily resistances from two dimensions: disguised and hidden forms of discourse and forms of hidden discourse as a practice.
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