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The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia by Professor James C. Scott

The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia Professor James C. Scott ebook
ISBN: 0300021909, 9780300021905
Publisher: Yale University Press
Page: 129
Format: djvu

Honestly, I am enthralled by the work of this man. His original interest was in peasants in the Kedah state of Malaysia. Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century, in: Past & Present 50 (1971), S. The Moral Economy of the Peasant: rebellion and subsistence in Southeast Asia. During the Vietnam War, he took an interest in Vietnam and wrote The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Subsistence and Rebellion in Southeast Asia (1976). As we know, it was immediately applied to a quite different, non-European setting by James C. In his 1985 book, The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, Scott argues that the cultural element is a key consideration to revolt and protest. A goal of safety first, to meet minimum needs, to get by – in essence a right to subsistence – frames the moral economy of his peasants. Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, New Haven 1976. Scott, The Moral Economy of the Peasant. The protagonists here are Samuel Popkin's The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam and James Scott's The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia .