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Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet - The Power of Everyday Politics: How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy - 9780801443015 - V9780801443015
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The Power of Everyday Politics: How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy

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Description for The Power of Everyday Politics: How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 657.

Ordinary people's everyday political behavior can have a huge impact on national policy: that is the central conclusion of this book on Vietnam. In telling the story of collectivized agriculture in that country, Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet uncovers a history of local resistance to national policy and gives a voice to the villagers who effected change. Not through open opposition but through their everyday political behavior, villagers individually and in small, unorganized groups undermined collective farming and frustrated authorities' efforts to correct the problems.The Power of Everyday Politics is an authoritative account, based on extensive research in Vietnam's National Archives ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801443015
SKU
V9780801443015
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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About Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet
Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet is Professor and head of the Department of Political and Social Change at The Australian National University. He is the author of Everyday Politics in the Philippines: Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village and The Huk Rebellion: A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines.

Reviews for The Power of Everyday Politics: How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy
"Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet again enlarges our understanding of subaltern agency and politics. This splendid volume is a great tribute to the capacity of Vietnamese villagers to doggedly defend their basic interests and restrict the options of elites. The Power of Everyday Politics is also a great tribute to Kerkvliet as the political analyst and ethnographer of this important struggle. ... Read more

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