Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press

6] I borrow this term from he book of the same name by James Scott, Weapons of the Weak : Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Yale University 1985). And because this type of caricature does not necessitate technical artistic skills, they also constitute forms of “everyday resistance”5 by which ordinary citizens challenge authority and show that they do not consent to the regime's asphyxiating domination. Weapons of the weak: everyday forms of peasant resistance, Yale University Press, 1985: 80. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. To the anthropology of the peasantry, in The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia (1979), and the anthropology of resistance, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985). (1987) Weapons of the weak: everyday forms of peasant resistance, New Haven: Yale University Press. In many cases, as a popular branch of peasant studies illustrates, they engage in “everyday forms of resistance” by employing what has been termed “weapons of the weak” (Scott 1985, Scott and Kerkvliet 1986). Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1960. €Serving the Movement: The Role(s) of Music”. Weapons of the Weak Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance now only : 23.44. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. In his classic text Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance James Scott describes how the oppressed resist their political and economic domination by the powerful in small ways. Using parody and allegory, dissident artists have also . Weapons of the Weak Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. Other weapons of the weak/proletariat include gossip, rumor-mongering, slandering, false complaints etc.