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(en) France, UCL AL #371 - Culture - Read James C. Scott: Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
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Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:40:24 +0300
James C. Scott (1936-2024), professor of political science and
anthropology at Yale University, sought to demonstrate that the absence
of open conflict or revolt is not an expression of the submission of the
oppressed to their condition, nor of their acquiescence to the existing
social order. ---- After two years of ethnographic research in Sedaka, a
rice-growing village in Malaysia, observing and interviewing both poor
and wealthy villagers, he sheds light on the "weapons of the weak" used
to mitigate the effects of domination. These acts of "daily resistance,"
falling under the category of "everyday resistance," fall far short of
deliberate acts of collective defiance, taking the form of evasions,
petty theft, temporary blockades, and, on a symbolic level, slander,
gossip, and nicknames intended to tarnish reputations. Never venturing
to challenge the formal boundaries of hierarchy and power, they prove
virtually impossible to overcome.
The implementation of double cropping annually, thanks to irrigation and
then mechanization (plowing tractors and combine harvesters), has
profoundly altered the "natural order of local economic relations" in
Sedaka. Consequently, conflicts of interpretation arise regarding the
benefits and harms suffered by different parties, and their respective
obligations towards one another.
His conclusions contradict the Marxist concept of "false consciousness"
and the Gramscian concept of "ideological hegemony," since he argues
that the dominated act rationally, fully aware of the limits of their
political, economic, and symbolic resources.
Far from being active ideological support, apparent compliance can also
stem from a recalcitrant resignation, because capitalism, no more than
feudalism, has succeeded in making the subordinate classes internalize
the hegemony supposedly guaranteeing social peace without resorting to
the coercive apparatus of the state. With this substantial and
insightful essay, James C. Scott defends the importance and
effectiveness of "everyday resistance."
Ernest London (UCL Le Puy-en-Velay)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-James-C-Scott-Les-Armes-des-faibles-Formes-quotidiennes-de-la-resistance
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