Weapons of the weak: everyday forms of peasant resistance

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter

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• List of Tables (page xii)

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• Preface (page xv)

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• 1. Small Arms Fire in the Class War (page 1)

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  • Razak (page 1)
  • Haji "Broom" (page 13)
  • The Symbolic Balance of Power (page 22)
• 2. Normal Exploitation, Normal Resistance (page 28)

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  • The Unwritten History of Resistance (page 28)
  • Resistance as Thought and Symbol (page 37)
  • The Experience and Consciousness of Human Agents (page 41)
• 3. The Landscape of Resistance (page 48)

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  • Background: Malaysia and the Paddy Sector (page 50)
  • Middle Ground: Kedah and the Muda Irrigation Scheme (page 59)
    • Landownership
    • Farm Size
    • Tenure
    • Mechanization
    • From Exploitation to Marginalization
    • Income
    • Poverty
    • Institutional Access
• 4. Sedaka, 1967-1979 (page 86)

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  • The Village (page 86)
  • Rich and Poor (page 91)
  • Village Composition (page 100)
  • Land Tenure (page 100)
  • Changes in Tenancy (page 103)
  • Changes in Rice Production and Wages (page 110)
  • Local Institutions and Economic Power (page 125)
    • The Farmers' Association
    • The Ruling Party in Sedaka
• 5. History according to Winners and Losers (page 138)

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  • Class-ifying (page 138)
  • Ships Passing—and Signaling—in the Night (page 141)
  • Two Subjective Class Histories of the Green Revolution (page 147)
  • Double-cropping and Double Vision (page 148)
  • From Living Rents to Dead Rents (page 151)
  • Combine-Harvesters (page 154)
  • Losing Ground: Access to Paddy Land (page 164)
  • Rituals of Compassion and Social Control (page 169)
  • The Remembered Village (page 178)
• 6. Stretching the Truth: Ideology at Work (page 184)

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  • Ideological Work in Determinate Conditions (page 184)
  • The Vocabulary of Exploitation (page 186)
  • Bending the Facts: Stratification and Income (page 198)
  • Rationalizing Exploitation (page 204)
  • Ideological Conflict: The Village Gate (page 212)
  • Ideological Conflict: The Village Improvement Scheme (page 220)
  • Argument as Resistance (page 233)
• 7. Beyond the War of Words: Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity (page 241)

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  • Obstacles to Open, Collective Resistance (page 242)
  • The Effort to Stop the Combine-Harvester (page 248)
  • "Routine" Resistance (page 255)
    • Trade Unionism without Trade Unions
    • Imposed Mutuality
    • Self-Help and/or Enforcement
    • Prototype Resistance
  • "Routine" Repression (page 274)
  • Routine Compliance and Resistance that Covers Its Tracks (page 278)
  • Conformity and the Partial Transcript (page 284)

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  • What Is Resistance? (page 289)
• 8. Hegemony and Consciousness: Everyday Forms of Ideological Struggle (page 304)

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  • The Material Base and Normative Superstructure in Sedaka (page 305)
  • Rethinking the Concept of Hegemony (page 314)
    • Penetration
    • Inevitability, Naturalization, and Justice
    • Conflict within Hegemony
    • Trade Union Consciousness and Revolution
    • Who Shatters the Hegemony?
• Appendix A. A Note on Village Population, 1967-1979 (page 351)

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• Appendix B. Farm Income Comparisons for Different Tenure and Farm Size Categories: Muda, 1966, 1974, 1979 (page 355)

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• Appendix C. Data on Land Tenure Changes, Net Returns, and Political Office (page 356)

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• Appendix D. Glossary of Local Terms (page 361)

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• Appendix E. Translation of Surat Layang (page 362)

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• Bibliography (page 364)

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• Index (page 375)

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