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Decoding Subaltern Politics - Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics (Hardcover)
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Decoding Subaltern Politics - Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics (Hardcover)
Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
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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 rebellion, much of which is applicable to rural areas
of the contemporary global south. Scott then goes on to develop his
arguments regarding everyday forms of peasant resistance using the
comparative example of the religious tithe in France and Malaysia,
and tracing the forms of resistance that cover their own tracks and
avoid direct clashes with authorities. For much of the world's
population, and for most of its history, this sort of politics was
far more common than the violent clashes that dominate the history
books, and in this book one can examine the anatomy of such
resistance in rich comparative detail. Finally, Scott explores how
the state's increasing grip on its population: its identity,
land-holding, income, and movements, is a precondition for
political hegemony. Crucially, in examining the invention of
state-mandated legal identities, especially, the permanent patronym
and the vagaries of its imposition on vernacular life, Scott lays
bare the micro-processes of state-formation and resistance. Written
by one of the leading social theorists of our age, Decoding
Subaltern Politics: Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian
Politics is an indispensible guide to the study of subaltern
culture and politics and is essential reading for political
scientists, anthropologists, sociologists and historians alike.
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