James C. Scott





James C. Scott

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December 02, 1936

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received his bachelor's degree from Williams College and his MA and PhD (1967) from Yale. He taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1976, when he returned to Yale. Now Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and is Director of the Agrarian Studies Program. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science, Science, Technology and Society Program at M.I.T., and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

His research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian socie...more


Average rating: 4.04 · 787 ratings · 110 reviews · 14 distinct works
Seeing Like a State: How Ce...
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Domination and the Arts of ...
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Weapons of the Weak: Everyd...
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The Art of Not Being Govern...
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The Moral Economy of the Pe...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1977 — 3 editions
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Perlawanan Kaum Tani
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993
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Agrarian Studies: Synthetic...
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Decoding Subaltern Politics...
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Everyday Forms of Peasant R...
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