Weapons of the Weak : Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance.

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This sensitive picture of the constant and circumspect struggle waged by peasants materially and ideologically against their oppressors shows that techniques of evasion and resistance may represent the most significant and effective means of class struggle in the long run."A major contribution...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scott, James C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Peasants > Political activity > Malaysia.
Passive resistance > Malaysia.
Social conflict > Malaysia.
Paysannerie > Activité politique > Malaisie.
Résistance passive > Malaisie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
Passive resistance
Peasants > Political activity
Social conflict
Malaysia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""Preface""; ""1. Small Arms Fire in the Class War""; ""Razak""; ""Haji “Broomâ€?""; ""The Symbolic Balance of Power""; ""2. Normal Exploitation, Normal Resistance""; ""The Unwritten History of Resistance""; ""Resistance as Thought and Symbol""; ""The Experience and Consciousness of Human Agents""; ""3. The Landscape of Resistance""; ""Background: Malaysia and the Paddy Sector""; ""Middle Ground: Kedah and the Muda Irrigation Scheme""; ""Landownership""; ""Farm Size""; ""Tenure""; ""Mechanization""; ""From Exploitation to Marginalization""; ""Income""
  • ""Poverty""""lnstitultional Access""; ""4. Sedaka, 1967-1979""; ""The Village""; ""Rich and Poor""; ""Village Composition""; ""Land Tenure""; ""Changes in Tenancy""; ""Changes in Rice Production and Wages""; ""Local Institutions and Economic Power""; ""The Farmersâ€? Association""; ""The Ruling Party in Sedaka""; ""5. History according to Winners and Losers""; ""Class-ifying""; ""Ships Passing-and Signaling-in the Night""; ""Two Subjective Class Histories of the Green Revolution""; ""Double-cropping and Double Vision""; ""From Living Rents to Dead Rents""; ""Combine-Harvesters""
  • ""Losing Ground: Access to Paddy Land""""Rituals of Compassion and Social Control""; ""The Remembered Village""; ""6. Stretching the Truth: Ideology at Work""; ""Ideological Work in Determinate Conditions""; ""The Vocabulary of Exploitation""; ""Bending the Facts: Stratification and Income""; ""Rationalizing Exploitation""; ""Ideological Conflict: The Village Gate""; ""Ideological Conflict: The Village Improvement Scheme""; ""Argument as Resistance""; ""7 . Beyond the War of Words: Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity""; ""Obstacles to Open, Collective Resistance""
  • ""The Effort to Stop the Combine-Harvester""""“Routineâ€? Resistance""; ""Trade Unionism without Trade Unions""; ""Imposed Mutuality""; ""Self-help and/or Enforcement""; ""Prototype Resistance""; ""“Routineâ€? Repression""; ""Routine Compliance and Resistance that Covers Its Tracks""; ""Conformity and the Partial Transcript""; ""What Is Resistance?""; ""8 . Hegemony and Consciousness: Everyday Forms of Ideological Struggle""; ""The Material Base and Normative Superstructure in Sedaka""; ""Rethinking the Concept of Hegemony""; ""Penetration""; ""Inevitability, Naturalization and Justice""
  • ""Conflict within Hegemony""""Trade Union Consciousness and Revolution""; ""Who Shatters the Hegemony?""; ""Appendixes""; ""A . A Note on Village Population, 1967-1979""; ""B. Farm Income Comparisons for Different Tenure and Farm Size Categories: Muda, 1966, 1974, 1979""; ""C. Data on Land Tenure Changes, Net Returns, and Political Office""; ""D. Glossary of Local Terms""; ""E. Translation of Surat Layang""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Photographs following page 162""

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