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Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
E-bok, 2008
277 kr
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Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "e;modernization"e; in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have …
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Hidden Transcripts
E-bok, 2008
195 kr
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"A splendid study, surely one of the most important that has appeared on the whole matter of power and resistance."—Natalie Zemon Davis Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception—the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, …
Weapons of the Weak
Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
E-bok, 2008
212 kr
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This sensitive picture of the constant and circumspect struggle waged by peasants materially and ideologically against their oppressors shows that techniques of evasion and resistance may represent the most significant and effective means of class struggle in the long run."e;A major …
Art of Not Being Governed
An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
E-bok, 2009
411 kr
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For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and …
Moral Economy of the Peasant
Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia
E-bok, 1977
175 kr
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James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household—subsistence—at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many otherwise puzzling technical, social, and moral arrangements in peasant society, such as resistance to innovation, the …
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
E-bok, 2017
329 kr
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An Economist Best History Book 2017 “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe, Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civilization and political order.”—Walter Scheidel, Financial Times Why did humans abandon hunting and …
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
E-bok, 2020
245 kr
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“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to …
