
Weapons of the Weak
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 1. Small Arms Fire in the Class War
- Razak
- Haji "Broom"
- The Symbolic Balance of Power
- 2. Normal Exploitation, Normal Resistance
- The Unwritten History of Resistance
- Resistance as Thought and Symbol
- The Experience and Consciousness of Human Agents
- 3. The Landscape of Resistance
- Background: Malaysia and the Paddy Sector
- Middle Ground: Kedah and the Muda Irrigation Scheme
- Landownership
- Farm Size
- Tenure
- Mechanization
- From Exploitation to Marginalization
- Income
- Poverty
- lnstitultional Access
- 4. Sedaka, 1967-1979
- The Village
- Rich and Poor
- Village Composition
- Land Tenure
- Changes in Tenancy
- Changes in Rice Production and Wages
- Local Institutions and Economic Power
- The Farmers' Association
- The Ruling Party in Sedaka
- 5. History according to Winners and Losers
- Class-ifying
- Ships Passing-and Signaling-in the Night
- Two Subjective Class Histories of the Green Revolution
- Double-cropping and Double Vision
- From Living Rents to Dead Rents
- Combine-Harvesters
- Losing Ground: Access to Paddy Land
- Rituals of Compassion and Social Control
- The Remembered Village
- 6. Stretching the Truth: Ideology at Work
- Ideological Work in Determinate Conditions
- The Vocabulary of Exploitation
- Bending the Facts: Stratification and Income
- Rationalizing Exploitation
- Ideological Conflict: The Village Gate
- Ideological Conflict: The Village Improvement Scheme
- Argument as Resistance
- 7 . Beyond the War of Words: Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity
- Obstacles to Open, Collective Resistance
- The Effort to Stop the Combine-Harvester
- "Routine" Resistance
- Trade Unionism without Trade Unions
- Imposed Mutuality
- Self-help and/or Enforcement
- Prototype Resistance
- "Routine" Repression
- Routine Compliance and Resistance that Covers Its Tracks
- Conformity and the Partial Transcript
- What Is Resistance?
- 8 . Hegemony and Consciousness: Everyday Forms of Ideological Struggle
- The Material Base and Normative Superstructure in Sedaka
- Rethinking the Concept of Hegemony
- Penetration
- Inevitability, Naturalization and Justice
- Conflict within Hegemony
- Trade Union Consciousness and Revolution
- Who Shatters the Hegemony?
- Appendixes
- A . A Note on Village Population, 1967-1979
- B. Farm Income Comparisons for Different Tenure and Farm Size Categories: Muda, 1966, 1974, 1979
- C. Data on Land Tenure Changes, Net Returns, and Political Office
- D. Glossary of Local Terms
- E. Translation of Surat Layang
- Bibliography
- Index
- Photographs following page 162
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