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

Class and Status in a Central Luzon Village

By: Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet

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Hardcover | 1 April 2002 | Edition Number 2

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This rich study examines the everyday politics of a rice farming village in central Luzon. Contending that the faction and patron-client relationships emphasized by conventional studies are but one part of Philippine political life, Kerkvliet offers a nuanced and fascinating portrait of political relationships among villagers. The world he portrays is complex and multifaceted: in a period of flux, relations of status and class shift as traditional roles give way to new social identities. The author demonstrates how disputes over land or controversies around wages lie at the heart of political life regardless of whether they manifest themselves in the usual political arenas. Kerkvliet shows how everyday politics illuminates contending beliefs about what is just and who has rights to particular resources. Furthermore, relationships between people in different class and status positions are far less harmonious than they might appear on the surface. Embedded in this contentious interaction are divergent ideas about how resources should be distributed-the privileged emphasize values supported by capitalism, while the poor press rights to the satisfaction of basic needs and to human dignity. A comprehensive and masterful classic, Everyday Politics in the Philippines revises our notions of political life in the developing world. Now available again with a new preface, postscript, and updated bibliography, this updated edition will be welcomed by a broad range of social scientists.

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A groundbreaking book in Philippine politics. * American Anthropologist *
A major study that deserves to be read by all those interested not only in the Philippines but in the rapidly changing world of the peasant. * Pacific Affairs *
An important contribution to the flourishing field of peasant studies. . . . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *
Addresses fundamental questions about how subordinated people understand the power relations in which they are enmeshed. . . . Kerkvliet brilliantly demonstrates that ideas about justice matter a great deal to those on the brink of survival. * American Political Science Review *

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List of Tables and Maps
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Capitalism and Rebellion Entwined	p. 20
Background	p. 20
The Huk Rebellion	p. 26
State Policies: Reforms and Capital-Intensive Rice Technology	p. 29
Replacing Tenants with Capital	p. 34
The Surviving Tenants' Gamble with New Rice	p. 39
Landlessness	p. 50
Summary	p. 57
Status and Class	p. 59
Conceptions of Society	p. 59
Composition	p. 63
Social Complexities	p. 75
Household Views of Class and Status Politics	p. 81
Agricultural Worker, Very Poor Household: The Marcoses	p. 82
Less-Poor Workers On and Off the Land: The Himalas	p. 89
Less-Poor Peasant Household: The Aspias	p. 93
A Peasant Household with an Adequate Living Standard: The Cruzes	p. 99
Rich Capitalists: The Trinidads	p. 104
Three Themes	p. 109
Class Resistance	p. 113
Forms of Resistance	p. 113
Peasants versus Landowners, Creditors, and the State	p. 117
Agricultural Workers	p. 143
Construction Workers	p. 154
Conflict among Status Groups	p. 164
Explaining Poverty and Wealth	p. 164
Conflicting Obligations	p. 173
Moderating Influences	p. 176
More Daring Manifestations of Resistance	p. 178
The Attempted Land Takeover	p. 182
Themes in Resistance	p. 198
Networks among People in Different Classes and Statuses	p. 202
Hinges and Linkages	p. 202
Kinship	p. 206
Patron-Client Ties	p. 212
Electoral Politics	p. 219
Implications	p. 234
Everyday Politics and Contending Values	p. 242
More than Elections, Patron-Client Relations, or Rebellion	p. 242
Contending Values	p. 248
San Ricardo's Contending Values in Perspective	p. 252
Society as Composites of Values	p. 259
Beyond Moral Economy	p. 265
Postscript	p. 274
App. A: Methodology	p. 291
App. B: Supplementary Tables	p. 297
Petition from Eighty-Four Poor Landless Residents of San Ricardo	p. 307
Bibliography	p. 311
Index	p. 325
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