This particular form of resistance is a way of undermining power in a matter that is typically disguised or hidden.
[2] The acts of everyday resistance are considered to be relatively safe and they require either little or no formal coordination.
[2] Everyday resistance can be understood as exploited, oppressed people undermining power as a way of surviving,[1] holding onto their dignity[3] and executing agency.
[1] Resistance can be understood as any mental or behavioral act in which an individual makes an attempt to stop, repel, prevent, expose, abstain from, withstand, work against or refuse to comply with, any form of oppression or violence.
Studying a subaltern culture for the first time, that being one of peasants in South East Asia, Scott saw how small acts of resistance were being coordinated.