Paperback, 392 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 1987 by Yale University Press.
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Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance is a 1985 book on everyday forms of rural class conflict as illustrated in a Malaysian village, written by anthropologist James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press.
In Weapons of the Weak, Scott turns his attention to the daily, subtle forms of resistance employed by villagers, a shift from the traditionally studied grand narratives of revolutions and uprisings. His ethnographic research concentrates on seventy families in a Malaysian village, whose lives are profoundly affected by the introduction of irrigation and double cropping, leading to significant social changes.
Subjects
- POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Social conflict
- Peasantry
- Sociology
- Politics/International Relations
- General
- Political Science / General
- Passive resistance
- Malaysia
- Political activity