 A reversal of the coloniser's monopoly on violence is taken to be necessary to break out of the master–slave dialectic, a learnt sense of cultural inferiority and the learned helplessness of the colonised.The term "inversion woodcuts" also appears in peasant studies as a description of imagery such as an ox killing a butcher (e.g.James Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance, 166-72).