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    Weapons of the Weak

    Book by James C. Scott

    Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance is a 1985 book on everyday forms of rural class conflict as illustrated in a Malaysian village, written by anthropologist James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press. In Weapons of the Weak, Scott turns his attention to the daily, subtle forms of resistance employed by villagers, a shift from the traditionally studied grand narratives of revolutions and uprisings. His ethnographic research concentrates on seventy families in a Malaysian village, whose lives are profoundly affected by the introduction of irrigation and double cropping, leading to significant social changes. The core of Scott's analysis lies in the various passive resistance strategies adopted by the villagers. These include: sabotage, foot-dragging, evasion, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance, arson, dissimulation, and slander. Though copyrighted in 1985, it was published in hardback in February 1986. Wikipedia

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  2. 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.
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance is a 1985 book on everyday forms of rural class conflict as illustrated in a Malaysian village, written by anthropologist James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press.. In Weapons of the Weak, Scott turns his attention to the daily, subtle forms of resistance employed by villagers, a shift from the traditionally studied grand ...
  4. To ignore the self-interested element in peasant resistance is to ignore the determinate context, not only of peasant politics, but of most lower class politics. It is precisely the fusion of self-interest and resistance that is the vital force animating the resistance of peasants and proletarians.
  5. is capable of battening itself on its peasant subjects even more effectively than its predecessors. For these reasons it seemed to me more important to understand what we might call everyday forms of peasant resistance--the prosaic but constant struggle between the peasantry and those who seek to extract labor, fuod, taxes, rents,
  6. en.wikipedia.org

    In Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985) Scott expanded his theories to peasants in other parts of the world. Scott's theories are often contrasted with Gramscian ideas about hegemony. Against Gramsci, Scott argues that the everyday resistance of subalterns shows that they have not consented to dominance. [16]
  7. dannyreviews.com

    In Weapons of the Weak he takes up a similar subject, this time looking at ordinary, everyday peasant resistance and the reasons open revolts are so rare. One of his main goals is to resolve empirically debates within political science over the concepts of false consciousness and hegemony. Scott himself is a political scientist by training, but ...
  8. Everyday forms of Resistance / James C. Scott -- Between Submission and Violence: Peasant Resistance in the Polish Manorial Economy of the Eighteenth Century / Jacek Kochanowicz -- Saboteurs in the Forest: Colonialism and Peasant resistance in the Indian Himalaya / Ramachandra Guha -- The Conspiracy of Silence and the Atomistic Political ...

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