Weapons of the Weak
内容简介
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 an argument that the Marxian and Gramscian ideas of false consciousness and hegemony are incorrect. He develops this conclusion throughout the book, through the different scenarios and characters that come up during his time of fieldwork in the village. This publication, based on 2 years of fieldwork (1978-1980), focuses on the local class relations in a small rice farming community of 70 households in the main paddy-growing area of Kedah in Malaysia. Introduction of the Green Revolution in 1976 eliminated 2/3 of the wage-earning opportunities for smallholders and landless laborers. The main ensuing class struggle is analyzed being the ideological struggle in the village and the practice of resistance itself consisting of: foot-dragging, dissimulation, desertion, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance and sabotage acts. Rich and poor are engaged in an unremitting if silent struggle to define changes in land tenure, mechanization and employment to advance their own interests, and to use values that they share to control the distribution of status, land, work and grain.
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作者简介
James C. Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrariane, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His books include "Seei Studies Program at Yale University. His books include "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Cong Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed"; "Domination and the Arts of Resistancendition Have Failed"; "Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts"; and most recently, "The Art of Not Be: Hidden Transcripts"; and most recently, "The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia.ing Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia." He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science" He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a mediocre part-time farmer and beekeeper. s and a mediocre part-time farmer and beekeeper.
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读书文摘
“战争的消息”就几乎全部由口头争论、制造假象、揭穿谎言、恐吓威胁、一两次小冲突和宣传攻势组成，其中宣传攻势是最重要的。
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