Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance by James C. Scott

Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance



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45 'The Contaminations of Contingency', in One Earth, Four or Five Worlds ( London , 1985), p. 44 Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Yale, 1985), p. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. Stora, Benjamin, Algeria, 1830-2000, Ithica: Cornell University Press, 2001. [23] For an instructive discussion on the possibilities of resistance in everyday life in a Malaysian setting see James C. In his book, Weapons of the Weak, James Scott argues that studies of peasant resistance focus a lot on large scale revolts. 6] I borrow this term from he book of the same name by James Scott, Weapons of the Weak : Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Yale University 1985). Scott, James C., Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Yale: Yale University Press, 1985. In Weapons of the Weak: Everyday forms of Peasant Resistance (1985), Scott documents and explains the impact of the Green Revolution on peasants in "Sedaka," a Malaysian village Scott lived in for 18 months. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Yale UP, 1985). “For the historical and archival records were richest at precisely those moments when the peasantry pose a threat to the state,†Scott writes, “the historiography of class struggle has been distorted So what are the everyday forms through which peasants resist those who seek to extract from them labour, food, taxes, rents and interest? 46 La Jornada (Mexico City), 26 Jan.