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Resistance is often constructed through the cultural practices. Everyday life and practices determine the culture of a community. In Raymond Williams’ Keywords, he remarks that the culture we enjoy and the culture in which we live provide us with ideas of how things are and how they should be which helps the people to account for the past, make sense of the present and dream of the future. (Duncombe 2012: 35) In Weapons of the Weak, James C. Scott argues that resistance is a “politics that doesn’t look like politics” (Duncombe 2012: 89). Duncombe observes that culture can be used as a means of resistance. “In order to strive for change one has to first imagine it, and culture is the repository imagination” (2002: 35) and it helps to imagine

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