The paper concludes with an examination of John Scott's (1985) Weapons of the Weak and Goffman's (1961) Asylums. By studying peasants in Kedah state in Malaysia, Scott introduced the concept of 'everyday resistance.' He documented how covert acts of resistance enable people to undermine the persistent insults they endure. Goffman, too, detailed the strategies used by inmates to challenge subordination and mistreatment in asymmetrical relations of power. It shall be argued that defiant and law breaking activities are overt forms of resistance, utilised by young men to express their irreverence towards mainstream social norms and mores. Joyriding, shall be presented as a particularly effective form of front stage resistance. Importantly, it enables
