Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press

4) Violence and Social Suffering. I have read Thompson's essay on the moral economy of the English peasant and working classes, and I just finished Scott's Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1987). (1985) Weapons of the weak: Everyday forms of peasant resistance, New Haven: Yale University Press. Different degrees of violence and that the utilization of these forms and degrees produce different displays of functionality in terms of strategies and tactics, similar to how Scott describes his “coral reef” of localized resistance. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. (1998) Sustainable rural livelihoods: A framework for analysis, IDS Working Paper, 89. 3) Power, Domination, Hegemony, and Resistance. In the early pages of his book Weapons of the Weak, James C. Scott calls upon the metaphor of a coral reef to describe the way that the numerous activities of insubordination and evasion on the everyday level of lower class life work towards . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ¨ Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Scott 1985). In many cases, as a popular branch of peasant studies illustrates, they engage in “everyday forms of resistance” by employing what has been termed “weapons of the weak” (Scott 1985, Scott and Kerkvliet 1986). In Weapons of the Weak: Everyday forms of Peasant Resistance (1985), Scott documents and explains the impact of the Green Revolution on peasants in "Sedaka," a Malaysian village Scott lived in for 18 months. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. ¨ Political Anthropology and the “World-System Thesis”.