Rock Creek I don’t know how many books I have now read about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers over the years. Maybe a dozen? Maybe two dozen? In the early ones fresh from the footsteps of the marches with the banners waving, the adulation was almost so thick that it was hard for an …
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Stop Signs for Social Change with James C. Scott
Rock Creek Frankly, part of the quest in reading is not only the search for knowledge, entertainment, and active resistance to boredom, but the hope of finding external confirmation for your own thinking and work. The first 325 pages of James C. Scott’s, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Yale 1985) can be …
Weapons of the Weak
Rock Creek Reading a short book on revisiting the practice of anarchism by James C. Scott during the last year I became aware of his earlier work, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, which I was sure was even more up my alley. The book, published in 1985, is based on anthropological …