Decoding subaltern politics
Subtitle: ideology, disguise, and resistance in agrarian politics
By: James C. Scott
Series: Asia's transformations
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415539753; 9780415540100; 9780203095041
Subjects: Social stratification; Agriculture and state; Peasants; Political activity; Social movements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The "way" of peasant politics : agrarian revolt and the little tradition; title: Themes of peasant politics : localism, syncretism, profanation; title: Modes of dissimulation; title: Dissimulation in practice : resistance to the tithe in France and Malaysia : below the radar; title: The state's grip on the vernacular world; title: The production of legal identities proper to states : the case of the permanent family surname.