Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / James C. Scott

By: Scott, James C.

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1998.Description: xiv, 445 p.ISBN: 9780300078152.Subject(s): Social engineering | Authoritarianism | Central planning -- Social aspects | Economic development -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 338.9

Contents:

State projects of legibility and simplification. Nature and space ; Cities, people, and language -- Transforming visions. Authoritarian high modernism ; The high-modernist city : an experiment and a critique ; The Revolutionary Party : a plan and a diagnosis -- The social engineering of rural settlement and production. Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams ; Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aesthetics and miniaturization ; Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity -- The missing link. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : mētis ; Conclusion.

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