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Weapons of the weak: everyday forms of peasant resistance

James C Scott c1985 © James C. Scott
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780300033366 (hardcover)
  • 9780300036411 (paper)
  • 9780300153620 (ebook)
Subject
  • Asian: South and Southeast
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

  • Stats

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Tables (page xii)
  • Preface (page xv)
  • 1. Small Arms Fire in the Class War (page 1)
    • Razak (page 1)
    • Haji "Broom" (page 13)
    • The Symbolic Balance of Power (page 22)
  • 2. Normal Exploitation, Normal Resistance (page 28)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • What Is Resistance? (page 289)
  • 8. Hegemony and Consciousness: Everyday Forms of Ideological Struggle (page 304)
    • 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)
  • Appendix B. Farm Income Comparisons for Different Tenure and Farm Size Categories: Muda, 1966, 1974, 1979 (page 355)
  • Appendix C. Data on Land Tenure Changes, Net Returns, and Political Office (page 356)
  • Appendix D. Glossary of Local Terms (page 361)
  • Appendix E. Translation of Surat Layang (page 362)
  • Bibliography (page 364)
  • Index (page 375)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JP 49.3 (Aug. 1987): 879-882 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-3816%28198708%2949%3A3%3C879%3AWOTWEF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8
AE 14.3 (Aug. 1987): 585-586 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28198708%2914%3A3%3C585%3AWOTWEF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2
ET 97.4 (Jul. 1987): 875-876 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0014-1704%28198707%2997%3A4%3C875%3AWOTWEF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8
PA 60.2 (Summer 1987): 365-366 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-851X%28198722%2960%3A2%3C365%3AWOTWEF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
CS 16.3 (May 1987): 301-304 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28198705%2916%3A3%3C301%3AEIOOC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
JAS 46.2 (May 1987): 462-463 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28198705%2946%3A2%3C462%3AWOTWEF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P
APSR 81.1 (Mar. 1987): 310-313 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554%28198703%2981%3A1%3C310%3AWOTWEF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H
AJS 92.5 (Mar. 1987): 1242-1244 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28198703%2992%3A5%3C1242%3AWOTWEF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G
MAS 21.4 (1987): 824-827 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-749X%281987%2921%3A4%3C824%3AWOTWEF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V
BSOAS 50.3 (1987): 598 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X%281987%2950%3A3%3C598%3AWOTWEF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C
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