The oppressed ones.How do people survive in oppressive situations? What makes a revolution possible? In times in which the powerful one exercises a ferreous control over the behaviour of the rest; does resistance have any sense? This essay shows an original perspective in the study of power relationships. To do so, it takes an unquestionable fact as its starting point: the actors of the social and political life do not reduce their intervention on the stage. Beyond the apparent forms of hegemony, the author proposes discerning the daily experiences which are carried out behind the public tribune. This way, he pays attention not to the official speeches but to the procedures of linguistic hiding; the hidden codes, the advantage of anonymity and the deliberate ambiguity to figure out what he calls the art of resistance. This book is considered one of the greatest theorical contributions to the discussion about the oppressor- oppressed relationship. Some analysts have assured that after this work the social movements had to restate their strategy.
