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Scott, James C. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
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Table of contents
Abstract
Reviews
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| List of Tables | xii |
| Preface | xv |
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| 1. Small Arms Fire in the Class War | 1 |
| Razak | 1 |
| Haji "Broom" | 13 |
| The Symbolic Balance of Power | 22 |
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| 2. Normal Exploitation, Normal Resistance | 28 |
| The Unwritten History of Resistance | 28 |
| Resistance as Thought and Symbol | 37 |
| The Experience and Consciousness of Human Agents |
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| 3. The Landscape of Resistance | 48 |
| Background: Malaysia and the Paddy Sector | 50 |
| Middle Ground: Kedah and the Muda Irrigation Scheme |
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| Landownership • Farm Size • Tenure • Mechanization
• From Exploitation to Marginalization * Income • Poverty
• Institutional Access |
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| 4. Sedaka, 1967-1979 | 86 |
| The Village | 86 |
| Rich and Poor | 91 |
| Village Composition | 100 |
| Land Tenure | 100 |
| Changes in Tenancy | 103 |
| Changes in Rice Production and Wages | 110 |
| Local Institutions and Economic Power | 125 |
| The Farmers' Association * The Ruling Party in Sedaka |
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| 5. History according to Winners and Losers | 138 |
| Class-ifying | 138 |
| Ships Passing—and Signaling—in the Night | 141 |
| Two Subjective Class Histories of the Green Revolution | 147 |
| Double-cropping and Double Vision | 148 |
| From Living Rents to Dead Rents | 151 |
| Combine-Harvesters | 154 |
| Losing Ground: Access to Paddy Land | 164 |
| Rituals of Compassion and Social Control | 169 |
| The Remembered Village | 178 |
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| 6. Stretching the Truth: Ideology at Work | 184 |
| Ideological Work in Determinate Conditions | 184 |
| The Vocabulary of Exploitation | 186 |
| Bending the Facts: Stratification and Income | 198 |
| Rationalizing Exploitation | 204 |
| Ideological Conflict: The Village Gate | 212 |
| Ideological Conflict: The Village |
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Scheme | 220 |
| Argument as Resistance | 233 |
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| 7. Beyond the War of Words: Cautious Resistance and
Calculated Conformity | 241 |
| Obstacles to Open, Collective Resistance | 242 |
| The Effort to Stop the Combine-Harvester | 248 |
| "Routine" Resistance | 255 |
| Trade Unionism without Trade Unions • Imposed Mutuality
• Self-help and/or Enforcement • Prototype Resistance |
| "Routine" Repression | 274 |
| Routine Compliance and Resistance that Covers Its Tracks | 278 |
| Conformity and the Partial Transcript | 284 |
| What Is Resistance? | 289 |
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| 8. Hegemony and Consciousness: Everyday Forms of
Ideological Struggle | 304 |
| The Material Base and Normative Superstructure in Sedaka |
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| Rethinking the Concept of Hegemony | 314 |
| Penetration • Inevitability, Naturalization, and Justice
• Conflict within Hegemony • Trade Union Consciousness and
Revolution • Who Shatters the Hegemony? |
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| Appendixes |
| A. A Note on Village Population, 1967-1979 | 351 |
| B. Farm Income Comparisons for Different Tenure and Farm Size Categories:
Muda, 1966, 1974, 1979 | 355 |
| C. Data on Land Tenure Changes, Net Returns, and Political Office |
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| D. Glossary of Local Terms | 361 |
| E. Translation of Surat Layang | 362 |
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| Bibliography | 364 |
| Index | 375 |
| Photographs following page 162 |
