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Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
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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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Everyday Forms of Resistance
- 2 Between Submission and Violence: Peasant Resistance in the Polish Manorial Economy of the Eighteenth Century
- 3 Saboteurs in the Forest: Colonialism and Peasant Resistance in the Indian Himalaya
- 4 The Conspiracy of Silence and the Atomistic Political Activity of the Egyptian Peasantry, 1882–1952
- 5 Class, Gender, and Peasant Resistance in Central Colombia, 1900–1930
- 6 Struggling over Land in China: Peasant Resistance after Collectivization, 1966–1986
- 7 Foot Dragging and Other Peasant Responses to the Nicaraguan Revolution
- 8 How the Weak Succeed: Tactics, Political Goods, and Institutions in the Struggle over Land in Zimbabwe
- 9 Commentary
- Index
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