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Working the Revolution: Plantation Laborers and the People's Militia in North Sumatra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Ann Laura Stoler
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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.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , May 1988 , pp. 227 - 247
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988

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