For a book that talks a lot about this as a vehicle for political demands, see James Scott's Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance.
...and, slightly off-topic, for a book that talks a lot about scientific forestry, colonization in Tanzania and the pitfalls of centralized cultural and city planning see James C. Scott's Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes To Improve The Human Condition Have Failed.
