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James C. Scott
Born
in Mount Holly, New Jersey, The United States
December 02, 1936
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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published
1998
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18 editions
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
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published
2017
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19 editions
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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
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2009
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16 editions
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Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play
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published
2012
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17 editions
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Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
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published
1990
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9 editions
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Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
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published
1985
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7 editions
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The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia
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published
1976
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6 editions
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Perlawanan Kaum Tani
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published
1993
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Decoding Subaltern Politics: Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics
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2012
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8 editions
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Comparative Political Corruption
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published
1972
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2 editions
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“One day you will be called upon to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will depend on it. You have to be ready. How are you going to prepare for that day when it really matters? You have to stay "in shape" so that when the big day comes you will be ready. What you need is "anarchist calisthenics." Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it’s only jaywalking. Use your own head to judge whether a law is just or reasonable. That way, you'll keep trim; and when the big day comes, you'll be ready.”
― Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play
― Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play
“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.”
― Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
― Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
“A language is the joint historical creation of millions of speakers. Although all speakers have some effect on the trajectory of a language, the process is not particularly egalitarian. Linguists, grammarians, and educators, some of them backed by the power of the state, weigh in heavily. But the process is not particularly amenable to a dictatorship, either. Despite the efforts toward "central planning," language (especially its everyday spoken form) stubbornly tends to go on its own rich, multivalent, colorful way.”
― Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
― Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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