Weapons of the Weak

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Review: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

Gebruikersrecensie - Maria - Goodreads

20130127 For Social Anthropology 3400 (core requirement), Winter Q 2013. I am exquisitely uninterested in this book, but need to read it for my part in a group presentation. Le sigh. Volledige recensie lezen

Review: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

Gebruikersrecensie - Rifhan - Goodreads

Scott spent two years (p. xvii) in (fictionally named),Sedaka, Malaysia collecting empirical evidence of “everyday forms of peasant resistance” for this book. While there, he observed the locals ... Volledige recensie lezen

Review: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

Gebruikersrecensie - Michael - Goodreads

This is an excellent study of how the powerless resist. Scott's position in most of his works is that peasant and worker resistance rarely occurs in the form of violence or revolution. Scott's ... Volledige recensie lezen

Review: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

Gebruikersrecensie - Julian Haigh - Goodreads

Fantastic book. Despite it being written in the first 10 years of a 'Green Revolution' in northern Malaysia (1964-80, or so) about peasants, it has a strong salience to understandings of current ... Volledige recensie lezen

Review: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

Gebruikersrecensie - Demosthenes - Goodreads

Well-written, except for areas where the author repeats himself or goes on some sort of rant on an slightly related topic. Diverged from the main point too much. Volledige recensie lezen

Review: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

Gebruikersrecensie - Rowland Bismark - Goodreads

In The Moral Economy of the Peasant, Scott looked at the causes of peasant revolts, focusing on those in Burma and Vietnam in the early 1930s. He argued that peasant rebellions can only be understood ... Volledige recensie lezen

Review: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

Gebruikersrecensie - Charles - Goodreads

Didn't agree with him on Gramsci, but like the premise a lot. Volledige recensie lezen

Review: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

Gebruikersrecensie - Peter - Goodreads

X = "anthropological" and I am not in the mood right now. Volledige recensie lezen

Review: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

Gebruikersrecensie - Gill - Goodreads

Blows Gramsci's hegemony out of the water while conducting an interesting ethnographic study of the forms of peasant resistance. With this book, Moral Economy, and Domination and the Arts of Resistance Scott changed the way we think about resistance. Essential. Volledige recensie lezen

Review: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

Gebruikersrecensie - Nidya - Goodreads

Contentious politics not necessarily happen in an established state, it could happen even in a small village. This book make us to understand the reason why revolution does not happen in some society ... Volledige recensie lezen