Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0873325753
ISBN-13
9780873325752
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
M.E. Sharpe
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 31st, 1990
Print length
250 Pages
Weight
453 grams
Product Classification:
Social classesRural communitiesDemonstrations & protest movements
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Peasant rebellions are uncommon, and the author explores the alternative forms of struggle which they use to achieve their aims. Seven countries are studied for research purposes, Poland, India, Egypt, Colombia, China, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe.
Peasant rebellions are uncommon. "Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance" explores peasants'' foot dragging, feigned ingorance, false compliance, manipulation, flight, slander, theft, arson, sabotage, and similar prosaic forms of struggle. These kinds of resistance stop well short of collective defiance, a strategy usually suicidal for the subordinate. The central argument about peasant resistance is presented in the opening chapter by James Scott in which he summarizes and extends the thesis of his book on Malaysia''s peasantry, "Weapons of the Weak". Scott''s ideas are employed and refined in the ensuing seven country studies of peasant resistance: Poland, India, Egypt, Colombia, China, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe.
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