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Research on everyday resistance emerged from contexts where power extracts surplus from the oppressed. In this scholarship, the backstage is a space where the dominated cultivate hidden transcripts to cope with oppression, while the frontstage, where performances are enacted to those in power, is primary. Inversions of this order, when they occur, are momentary. Using ethnographic fieldwork in two Tanzanian refugee camps, we show that under benevolent oppression\u2014control justified by paternalistic care rather than extraction\u2014dominated populations respond through \u201cstrategic inversion\u201d: a reordering of dramaturgical space where the backstage is primary and the frontstage remains tactical. Refugees moved the center of social life backstage, into a thriving underground economy, and kept up frontstage displays of helplessness to shield it. Within this alternative social order, competition and cooperation operated as two routes to\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">heshima<\/jats:italic>\n                    (dignity\/deference). Competition resisted the uniformity of the refugee label, and cooperation rejected the helplessness it presumed. Refugees sustained this inversion through\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">compliance flooding<\/jats:italic>\n                    , rule-following performances so dense that officials could not tell forbidden from permitted activity;\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">embedded enforcement<\/jats:italic>\n                    , as guards became accomplices in maintaining the clandestine economy they policed; and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">collective coordination<\/jats:italic>\n                    , where communities maintained alert systems and consistent performances to shield backstage activities. 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