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James C. Scott

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December 02, 1936

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male

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Agrarian studies, Political-economy, Anarchism

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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

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Books by James C. Scott

Average rating: 4.04 · 787 ratings · 110 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed 4.07 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts 4.13 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance 4.13 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia 4.06 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia 3.85 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1977 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Perlawanan Kaum Tani 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge by James C. Scott (Editor), Nina Bhatt (Editor) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Decoding Subaltern Politics: Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance in South-East Asia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1987	My rating:
	Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore, James C. Scott (Foreword by), Edward Friedman (Foreword by) 3.89 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating: