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Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts

James C. Scott - Political Science - 1990 - 276 pages
"Play fool, to catch wise."--proverb of Jamaican slaves Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the ...
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Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance in South-East Asia

James C. Scott, Benedict J. Kerkvliet - Business & Economics - 1986 - 168 pages
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

James C. Scott - Social Science - 2009 - 465 pages
From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length ...
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Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

James C. Scott - Political Science - 2008 - 422 pages
Weapons of the Weak is an ethnography by James C. Scott that studies the effects of the Green Revolution in rural Malaysia. One of the main objectives of the study is to make ...
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The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia

James C. Scott - Business & Economics - 1977 - 256 pages
James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household—subsistence—at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many ...
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Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and ...

James C. Scott - Philosophy - 2012 - 200 pages
A spirited defense of the anarchist approach to life James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the ...
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Decoding Subaltern Politics: Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian ...

James C. Scott - History - 2012 - 178 pages
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 ...
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Transatlantic Rebels: Agrarian Radicalism in Comparative Context

Thomas Summerhill, James C. Scott - Business & Economics - 2004 - 316 pages
This collection, by an international array of historians, examines agrarian radicalism in comparative context from 1500 to the present. What unifies the studies is a shared ...
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