James C. Scott

Author of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Includes the names: JC Scott, James C. Scott, Professor James C. Scott, James C. James; Scott Scott

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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition… 460 copies, 7 reviews
Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts 191 copies, 1 review
Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance 149 copies, 1 review
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast… 142 copies, 4 reviews
The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast… 80 copies, 1 review
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and… 48 copies
Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge 4 copies
Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia 2 copies
Decoding subaltern politics : ideology, disguise, and resistance in… 2 copies
Tahakkum ve Direnis Sanatlari 1 copy
How traditional rural patrons lose legitimacy (LTC reprint) 1 copy
La Domination et les arts de la résistance : Fragments du discours… 1 copy
Comparative Political Corruption 1 copy

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Connecticut, USA

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Williams College (B.A.)

Yale University (Ph.D. ∙ 1967)

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professor (political science ∙ anthropology)

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Bernard Schwartz Book Award

Fukuoka Asian Academic Prize

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