ISBN:
9780415539753
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (177 p)
Series Statement:
Asia's Transformations / Critical Asian Scholarship
Series Statement:
Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Decoding Subaltern Politics : Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics
DDC:
305.5633
Keywords:
Peasants - Political activity
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
James C. Scott has researched and written on subaltern groups, and, in particular, peasants, rebellion, resistance, and agriculture, for over 35 years. Yet much of Scott's most interesting work on the peasantry and the state, both conceptually and empirically, has never been published in book form. For the first time Decoding Subaltern Politics: Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics, brings together some of his most important work in one volume. The book covers three distinct yet interlinked bodies of work. The first lays out a framework for understanding peasant politics and
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The "way" of peasant politics-agrarian revolt and the little tradition: the religious dimension; 3 Themes of peasant politics: localism, syncretism, profanation -agrarian revolt and the little tradition: the political dimension; 4 Modes of dissimulation; 5 Dissimulation in practice: resistance to the tithe in France and Malaysia; below the radar; 6 The state's grip on the vernacular world; 7 The production of legal identities proper to states: the case of the permanent family surname; Notes; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
