Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
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Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance by Forrest D Colburn
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.
Forrest D. Colburn is Chair of the Department of Latin American Studies at Lehman College, CUNY. His books include Varieties of Liberalism in Central America: Nation-States as Works in Progress, Latin America at the End of Politics, and Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua: State, Class and the Dilemmas of Agrarian Policy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780873326223 |
| ISBN 10 | 0873326229 |
| Title | Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance |
| Author | Forrest D Colburn |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 1990-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 250 |
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