| Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance Contributor(s): Colburn, Forrest D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0873325753 ISBN-13: 9780873325752 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Political Science |
| Dewey: 305.563 |
| LCCN: 89010143 |
| Physical Information: 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
