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Seeing Like a State James C. Scott 1998 Yale University Press Paperback
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- Sociology / General, History & Theory, Imperialism, Human Services, General, World, Public Policy / Economic Policy
- ISBN
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- Subject Area
- History, Social Science, Political Science
- Publication Name
- Seeing like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
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- The Institution for Social and Policy Studies
- Publication Year
- 1999
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- English
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Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics--the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not--and cannot--be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge. The author builds a persuasive case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. He identifies and discusses four conditions common to all planning disasters: administrative ordering of nature and society by the state; a "high-modernist ideology" that places confidence in the ability of science to improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large- scale interventions; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans.
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Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300078153
ISBN-13
9780300078152
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Publication Name
Seeing like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Sociology / General, History & Theory, Imperialism, Human Services, General, World, Public Policy / Economic Policy
Series
The Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
464 Pages
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Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
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20 Oz
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Hd87.5.S365 1998
Copyright Date
1999
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338.9
Dewey Edition
21
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