Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By James C. Scott
"Seeing Like a State" was published by Yale University Press in 2010 - New Haven, Conn., it has 445 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Seeing Like a State” Metadata:
- Title: Seeing Like a State
- Author: James C. Scott
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 445
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publish Date: 2010
- Publish Location: New Haven, Conn.
“Seeing Like a State” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Central planning - Social engineering - Social aspects of Central planning - Social aspects - Authoritarianism - Long Now Manual for Civilization - Economic assistance, domestic - Social problems - Human services - State, the - POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Economic Policy - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Government & Business - Development - Economic Development - Business Development - Structural Adjustment - General - Pays en développement - Pays de l'Est - Economie dirigée - Régimes totalitaires - Aspects sociaux - Autoritarisme - Planeconomie - Utopieën - Maatschappijverbetering - PLANEJAMENTO ECONÔMICO (ASPECTOS SOCIAIS) - AUTORITARISMO (SISTEMAS DE GOVERNO) - ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURAL E SOCIAL - PLANEJAMENTO TERRITORIAL (AVALIAÇÃO) - Planification économique - Aspect social - Ingénierie sociale
- People: V. I. Lenin - Jules Nyerere - Le Corbusier - Baron Haussmann
- Places: Tanzania - Soviet Russia - Brasilia
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL29204778M - OL26241985W
- ISBN-13: 9781281729132 - 9780300078152 - 9780300128789
- All ISBNs: 9781281729132 - 9780300078152 - 9780300128789
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Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision.
"Seeing Like a State" Description:
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification -- Chapter 1. Nature and Space -- Chapter 2 . Cities, People, and Language -- Part 2. Transforming Visions -- Chapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism -- Chapter 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique -- Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis -- Part 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production -- Chapter 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams -- Chapter 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization -- Chapter 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity -- Part 4. The Missing Link -- Chapter 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources for Illustrations -- Index
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