Working the Revolution

Plantation Laborers and the People's Militia in North Sumatra

Bibliographic Data

ID3608912
AuthorsAnn Laura Stoler (corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume47
Issue2
Pages227-247
Publication date1988-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2056166
OpenAlexW2050568715
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited19

Nationalist struggles are invariably civil as well as anticolonial wars. The processes of popular politicization are shaped as much by internal contests as by mobilized sentiments against foreign rule. Political engagement by the rural poor is typically influenced by local power struggles, ethnic conflicts, and class tensions that may deflect the poor's stakes in and concern for national liberation. To discover the quotidian contours of revolution, we must turn to these sorts of relationships and constraints. To understand the conditions that foster or discourage the active participation of subordinate groups in revolution, we must appreciate the local relations under which people labor as much as the political context in which they fight

Class conflict · Context (archaeology) · Ethnic group · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Working class · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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