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Article: Everyday Politics in the Philippines: Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village.
- Article from:
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
- Author:
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This is the most comprehensive analysis of any Philippine community by a political scientist. It is, in fact, the most thorough tracing of the intricate lines of co-operation and conflict in a Philippine village by any scholar. (For this purpose the author defines "politics" in a manner that is independent of the existence of the state.)
In some ways the volume is a companion piece to the widely acclaimed study of a Malaysian village, Weapons of the Weak by James Scott (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), with whom Kerkvliet has previously collaborated. Yet it goes beyond a focus on "everyday resistance" to include examples of "unusual resistance", which ...