This article explores the importance and impact of a set of actions through which bakers manipulate laws and regulations that seek to organize and regulate how they do business. It builds on eighteen months of fieldwork conducted in Jordan, twelve of which were spent working in three different bakeries in the capital, Amman. Moving away from the idea that public policies are simply imposed, the article looks in detail at the social relations through which they are enacted. By honing in on the bakery, and examining arrangements between bakery owners, workers, consumers and ministerial employees, it illuminates modes of political agency that escape conventional binaries of domination/resistance, state/society and legality/illegality. I argue against seeing these practices as easily categorized forms of resistance or frivolous acts of corruption. Nor are they simply reinforcements of hegemonic control. Instead, ‘tactics’ at the bakery subvert the order of things to serve other ends. Foregrounding them in this analysis seeks not only to challenge views of power relations as strictly binary but to elucidate some of the ways in which citizens inhabit and engage with the neoliberal and authoritarian logics that pervade everyday life in Jordan.

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电阻部位或默认仪器？面包店的战术

本文探讨了一系列行动的重要性和影响力，面包师通过这些行动来操纵旨在组织和规范自己的经商方式的法律法规。它建立在约旦进行的18个月实地调查的基础上，其中12个是在首都安曼的三个不同面包房里工作的。本文不再只是简单地施加公共政策，而是详细研究了制定公共政策所通过的社会关系。通过磨练面包店，并检查面包店所有者，工人，消费者和部长雇员之间的安排，它阐明了政治代理机构的模式，这些模式摆脱了传统的统治/抵抗，国家/社会和合法/非法的二进制形式。我反对将这些做法视为容易归类为抵抗或轻率的腐败行为的形式。它们也不只是霸权控制的加强。取而代之的是，面包店的“策略”颠覆了事物的顺序，以服务于其他目的。在本分析中作为前瞻性研究的不仅是要挑战严格意义上的二元权力关系，而且要阐明公民居住和参与遍及约旦日常生活的新自由主义和威权主义逻辑的某些方式。