Everyday Politics in the Philippines Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village

Name: Everyday Politics in the Philippines Class and Status Relations in a Central Luzon Village
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ISBN: 9780742518704

ISBN-10: 0742518701

ISBN-13: 9780742518704

Edition: 2nd 2002

Authors: Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet

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Focusing on a rice farming village in central Luzon, Kerkvliet argues that the faction and patron-client relationships dealt with by conventional studies are only one part of Philippine political life.

Book details

List price: $77.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.08" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Tables and Maps


List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Capitalism and Rebellion Entwined


Background


The Huk Rebellion


State Policies: Reforms and Capital-Intensive Rice Technology


Replacing Tenants with Capital


The Surviving Tenants' Gamble with New Rice


Landlessness


Summary



Status and Class


Conceptions of Society


Composition


Social Complexities



Household Views of Class and Status Politics


Agricultural Worker, Very Poor Household: The Marcoses


Less-Poor Workers On and Off the Land: The Himalas


Less-Poor Peasant Household: The Aspias


A Peasant Household with an Adequate Living Standard: The Cruzes


Rich Capitalists: The Trinidads


Three Themes



Class Resistance


Forms of Resistance


Peasants versus Landowners, Creditors, and the State


Agricultural Workers


Construction Workers



Conflict among Status Groups


Explaining Poverty and Wealth


Conflicting Obligations


Moderating Influences


More Daring Manifestations of Resistance


The Attempted Land Takeover


Themes in Resistance



Networks among People in Different Classes and Statuses


Hinges and Linkages


Kinship


Patron-Client Ties


Electoral Politics


Implications



Everyday Politics and Contending Values


More than Elections, Patron-Client Relations, or Rebellion


Contending Values


San Ricardo's Contending Values in Perspective


Society as Composites of Values


Beyond Moral Economy


Postscript


App. A: Methodology


App. B: Supplementary Tables



Petition from Eighty-Four Poor Landless Residents of San Ricardo


Bibliography


Index