James C. Scott

1936–2024

1 series 2 books in order

James Campbell Scott (1936–2024) was an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics, known as a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies. His credits in the Yale Agrarian Studies series include Seeing Like a State and The Art of Not Being Governed.

Born: 1936
Known for: Yale Agrarian Studies

Series by James C. Scott

Yale Agrarian Studies

3 books in order · 1992–2009

Peasant power in China

1992 · Daniel Roy Kelliher
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Seeing Like a State

1998 · James C. Scott

This book examines how forms of authoritarian, or quasi-authoritarian, central planning fail to deliver their intended benefits, whether measured in…
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The Art of Not Being Governed

2009 · James C. Scott

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia is an anthropological and historical study of the Zomia highlands of…
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