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.
虽然给了五星,但是还是有所缺憾的。和另一篇评论里说的那样,分析乏力,似乎有点牵强的意味了。书里列出的太多的赛达卡贫苦农民所采取的行动,能不能称之为武器是不是有待商榷? 看书的过程中数次心酸。真心是因为这些所谓的武器过于无力。常用的也很常见的如名...
评分這本書講的是東南亞農業社會,讓我聯想到的是工業社會。在從農業文明走向工業文明的過程中,中國的日常管理者們很多時候都要面對書中所述的Negative dynamics:“農民(或民工)利用心照不宣的理解和非正式的網絡,不需要事先協調和計劃,以低姿態的反抗技術進行自衞性的消耗戰...
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,...
评分如何在数据,一面之词和社会生活中找到可靠的逻辑,斯科特提供了一个优秀的范本。值得多读几遍。(为什么评论短一点就不可以?)
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,...
画风马上就变了。应该算是采用民族志法研究抗争的早期学者。
评分在当时潮流中此书可谓挑战三种进路:在强国家/发展国家理论和数据对比流行时它强调国家政策对偏远农村地区的日常影响;在比较历史学者从二手著作材料中提炼理论时它基于实地田野;最重要的是在马主义学者或仍从生产模式去推断阶级关系和行为、或追随葛兰西文化霸权论时,它提出阶级关系需在社会情景中考察,文化霸权不排斥柔性抗拒。资本主义在国家机器主导下的扩展威胁农村传统社会纽带和日常生活模式,农民作为弱者只能在缝隙中将小打小闹言行日常化,战略性抵制经济威胁、夺还部分利益、保存社会传统话语对富人的威胁力和对自己的认同。然作者总体其实很悲观,认为弱者武器的话语体系是在缺少革命或激进反抗开口的情景下,终究要牺牲阶级在表面接受生产模式后和国家/优势阶级的暂时均衡;且弱者武器在抵御富人同时又贬斥自己阶级内的边缘分子。
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。
评分每次看这本书我的脑子像是被台风扫荡过一样只剩下两个内容:“James Scott文笔真好”、“哇在马来西亚乡下待三年,好酷哟~”【主要是everyday resistance实在太trivial了,虽然是个有趣的课题,但讲真没啥好研究的】
评分每次上来豆瓣找书评的时候,是我对中国的未来最有希望的时候,简直是热泪盈眶。
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