Weapons of the Weak is an ethnography by James C. Scott that studies the effects of the Green Revolution in rural Malaysia. One of the main objectives of the study is to make an argument that the Marxian and Gramscian ideas of false consciousness and hegemony are incorrect. He develops this conclusion throughout the book, through the different scenarios and characters that come up during his time of fieldwork in the village. This publication, based on 2 years of fieldwork (1978-1980), focuses on the local class relations in a small rice farming community of 70 households in the main paddy-growing area of Kedah in Malaysia. Introduction of the Green Revolution in 1976 eliminated 2/3 of the wage-earning opportunities for smallholders and landless laborers. The main ensuing class struggle is analyzed being the ideological struggle in the village and the practice of resistance itself consisting of: foot-dragging, dissimulation, desertion, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance and sabotage acts. Rich and poor are engaged in an unremitting if silent struggle to define changes in land tenure, mechanization and employment to advance their own interests, and to use values that they share to control the distribution of status, land, work and grain.
James C. Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrariane, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His books include "Seei Studies Program at Yale University. His books include "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Cong Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed"; "Domination and the Arts of Resistancendition Have Failed"; "Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts"; and most recently, "The Art of Not Be: Hidden Transcripts"; and most recently, "The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia.ing Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia." He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science" He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a mediocre part-time farmer and beekeeper. s and a mediocre part-time farmer and beekeeper.
这是一本写于20多年前的著作,在其译为中文的短短几年里,却因其有趣的主题,被众多学科心照不宣地引为重要的参考书目,这些学科不但包括人类学、政治学,还有“三农问题”等等研究领域。 与同时代受“越南战争和左翼学术界对民族解放战争迷恋的刺激下”诞生的诸多作...
评分黄湘 说到资本主义对传统乡村社会的破坏,马克思曾在《资本论》里做过如下论断:“新被解放 的人只有在他们被剥夺了一切生产资料和旧封建制度给予他们的一切生存保障之后,才能成为他们自身的出卖者,而对他们的这种剥夺的历史是用血和火的文字载入人类编年史的。”可以说,...
评分作者对东南亚农民做了实地考察,有小农生活的面对面描述,也有翔实的数据资料。斯科特关注的是贫困地区的阶级关系,尤其是受剥削者如何应对种种压榨的力量。在社会中处于长期的弱势地位,在政治上成为陪衬和工具,农民受到剥削、压迫是毋庸置疑的,但他们的反抗却成为疑问...
评分斯科特以一个马来西亚村庄中的政治斗争为例来分析宏大的国家级阶级斗争,我以为这本身就是一个失误。正如斯科特自己所注意到的,村庄共同体不同于国家共同体,村庄共同体有许多很有强度的其他关系弄混了所谓的“阶级之水”,包括亲戚、朋友、派系、民族等,实际上阶级仅仅是利...
评分草草翻完。 觉得中国土改和这本书中的农民反抗经验参差互见,都涉及到了农民主体的问题,值得再次细读。对70年代美国农民革命研究值得继续涉猎。 现有几笔偶得,匆匆写下。1,Weapons of the weak当然应该翻译成弱者的武器,不过我以为这里的复数是重要的。正是这里的复数,契...
很粗略的过了中文版,因为距离课堂讨论的DDL只有一天了。英文版大致翻了下,好写response。好在对于斯科特在中国的衍生品还算熟悉,总算能交差。不过这次的讨论主要围绕政治学学者如何用semiotic practice的方法,如何理解文化这种dialetical relationship between practices and systems of significations, 以及民族志调查与社会科学所要求的parsimonious, general的理论之间的对接。趁着写response, 又重新梳理了下近几年中外对于土改、集体化的口述史研究,感觉清晰了一点。
评分沉着等待,微权利的一种乡野观察。
评分很粗略的过了中文版,因为距离课堂讨论的DDL只有一天了。英文版大致翻了下,好写response。好在对于斯科特在中国的衍生品还算熟悉,总算能交差。不过这次的讨论主要围绕政治学学者如何用semiotic practice的方法,如何理解文化这种dialetical relationship between practices and systems of significations, 以及民族志调查与社会科学所要求的parsimonious, general的理论之间的对接。趁着写response, 又重新梳理了下近几年中外对于土改、集体化的口述史研究,感觉清晰了一点。
评分Scott想借着农民那些“磨洋工”式的抗争,说明老马的意识形态理论,和葛兰西的霸权理论,都是有问题的。意识形态不意味着全面的思想控制,甚至不意味着底层民众对于权贵阶层合法性的认同,它只是限制了人们对于社会变革可能性的认识。而抗争并不一定需要一个很彻底的good sense,在某种条件下,磨洋工式的抵抗也能给社会带来根本性的变革。这个人的书总是给人一种乍一看很有趣但又很经不起琢磨的感觉。一下子还说不好问题在哪里。但比起《国家的视角》还是好了很多。
评分Scott是我最喜欢的政治人类学家,也是他让我了解原来政治学研究可以这样做。
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