Seeing like a state
how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
By James C. Scott
"Seeing like a state" is published by Yale University Press in 1998 - New Haven, USA, it has 445 pages and the language of the book is English.
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- Title: Seeing like a state
- Author: James C. Scott
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 445
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publish Date: 1998
- Publish Location: New Haven, USA
“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 Specifications:
- Pagination: xiv, 445 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL680025M - OL26241985W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 191730771 - 37392803
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 97026556
- ISBN-10: 0300070160
- All ISBNs: 0300070160
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"Seeing like a state" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Acknowledgments
- 2- Introduction
- 3- State Projects of Legibility and Simplification
- 4- Nature and Space
- 5- Cities, People, and Language
- 6- Transforming Visions
- 7- Authoritarian High Modernism
- 8- The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique
- 9- The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis
- 10- The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production
- 11- Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams
- 12- Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization
- 13- Taming Nature: An Agricultyure of Legibility and Simplicity
- 14- The Missing Link
- 15- Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis
- 16- Conclusion
- 17- Notes
- 18- Sources for Illustrations
- 19- Index
Snippets and Summary:
Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision.
"Seeing like a state" Description:
The Open Library:
In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. He argues that centrally managed social plans derail when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot be - fully understood. Further the success of designs for social organization depends on the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge. The author builds a persuasive case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. And in discussing these planning disasters, he identifies four conditions common to them all: the state's attempt to impose administrative order on nature and society; a high-modernist ideology that believes scientific intervention can improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large-scale innovations; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans.
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