Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

by Forrest D. Colburn

Book Overview

Peasant rebellions are uncommon. Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance explores peasants' foot dragging, feigned ingorance, false compliance, manipulation, flight, slander, theft, arson, sabotage, and similar prosaic forms of struggle. These kinds of resistance stop well short of collective defiance, a strategy usually suicidal for the subordinate. The central argument about peasant resistance is presented in the opening chapter by James Scott in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873326229
• ISBN13: 9780873326223
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary