possible conclusion?

brain stormed a little

so i was thinking, after explaining the strategies that artists n individuals use to resist, and then compare that to the strategies of the theories by scott n de certeau. n then conclude in this section that there are different ideas of resistance in sg as we can already see in the case studies. again this is different from scott n de certeau's more deterministic approach.

i will then propose that ideas of resistance are different because of the excercising of power in this particular discourse. how about that?
so that means people understood resistance and submission differently BECAUSE of the ways power was exercised on them. although there was restrictions and fear, it did not demolish ideas of resistance. instead it changes the way people understood it and go about it. so probably different ways of exercising power will result in different ideas of resistance. in a way this addresses some of the problematics in foucault's theory because he doesn't talk about agency. whereas i will be suggesting that in this case people looked for agencies when they are restricted

when one look at it this way. then... this is actually empowering.

so the conclusion for my mrp will be about empowerment.
n this section will include some cultural theory on how people interpret things. ie the referent, signifier and signified. the signifier and signified always changing with the culture.
in short, i will look at how people interpret things as they are restricted by various powers, the strongest of course are the state and the people. how they interpret censorship- the tools of restriction, ideas of social change and expression, and how they interpret the government and the people. ie all these referents, what are their signifier, and how are they signified by these artists?

here i will input quotes from interviews on what pp think about those terms/referents. the idea is that again agencies that people search for in time of repression are not necessarily revolutionary. in this case empowerment comes in the form of the ability and the possibility to express oneself in a restrictive environment by using one's creativeness. n this is possible because these pp have a different concept on what it means to resist. (one idea is that resistance can be taught, inherited and carried on through a long period of time. the survival of ideas of resistance is crucial)
most importantly, the empowerment is in the artist, because she/he can express herself...

ok.. i somehow think that there is something lacking at the end. i think i need to look up theories on empowerment. bell hooks perhaps?