... that equates modernity with peace. In particular, Conrad linked ruthless violence to primitivism and peaceful social order to modernity. The revised modernist position is exemplified by the works of Hannah Arendt, Michael Mann, James Scott, and Andreas Wimmer. The chapter concludes with a discussion...

... of the State African Politics Legitimacy Authoritarianism Reciprocity Repertoires James Scott Patrick Chabal Gramsci “Why do you want to study the relation of people with power?” Bela and Clarisse laughed out loud. “It’s really bad, for every individual the relationship is péssima...

...This chapter argues for the continuing relevance of James Scott's The Moral Economy of the Peasant (1976) for understanding peasant movements of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Scott's entire oeuvre is firmly grounded in the study of agrarian politics...

... and resistance. The chapter outlines how crucial elements within the musicking “Stayin' Alive” culture at McTells served to support the agency of workers in enacting the resistance. It turns James Scott's “safe-valve” theory which argues that cultural discourses offer an outlet for the frustrations...