James C. Scott

James C. Scott

James C. Scott is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University and current president of the Association of Asian Studies. He is the author of Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance; Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts; and The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, all published by Yale University Press.

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Seeing like a State
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Seeing like a State
  • By: James C. Scott
  • Narrator: Michael Kramer
  • Length: 16 hours 6 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2018
  • Language: English
  • (4136 ratings)
(4136 ratings)
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural “modernization” in the Tropics–the twentieth century... Read more

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