James C. Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His books include
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed;
Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts; and most recently,
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a mediocre part-time farmer and beekeeper.
15 Ebooks by James C. Scott
James C. Scott: Two Cheers for Anarchism
A spirited defense of the anarchist approach to life James Scott taught us what’s wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist …
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€18.99
James C. Scott: Die Mühlen der Zivilisation
Wie selbstverständlich gehen wir davon aus, dass die neolithische Revolution, in deren Verlauf Nomaden zu Ackerbauern und Viehzüchtern wurden, ein bedeutender zivilisatorischer Fortschritt war. James …
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€21.99
Scott James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State
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" …
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€21.35
Scott James C. Scott: Domination and the Arts of Resistance
"A splendid study, surely one of the most important that has appeared on the whole matter of power and resistance."—Natalie Zemon Davis Confrontations between the powerless and …
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€15.00
Scott James C. Scott: Weapons of the Weak
This sensitive picture of the constant and circumspect struggle waged by peasants materially and ideologically against their oppressors shows that techniques of evasion and resistance may represent …
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€16.27
Winders Bill Winders: Politics of Food Supply
This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex …
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€37.74
Scott James C. Scott: Art of Not Being Governed
For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the …
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€31.47
Scott James C. Scott: Moral Economy of the Peasant
James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household—subsistence—at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many …
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€13.75
Scott James C. Scott: Against the Grain
An Economist Best History Book 2017 “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe, Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the …
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€25.19
James C. (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA) Scott: Decoding Subaltern Politics
James C. Scott has researched and written on subaltern groups, and, in particular, peasants, rebellion, resistance, and agriculture, for over 35 years. Yet much of Scott’s most interesting work on th …
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€67.87
James C. (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA) Scott: Decoding Subaltern Politics
James C. Scott has researched and written on subaltern groups, and, in particular, peasants, rebellion, resistance, and agriculture, for over 35 years. Yet much of Scott’s most interesting work on th …
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€67.91
James Scott & Benedict Tria Kerkvliet: Everyday Forms of Peasant Res Cb
First published in 1987. This is volume 9 of the libray of peasant studies series. The contributors focus on a vast and relatively unexplored middle-ground of peasant politics between passivity and …
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€55.09
James Scott & Benedict Tria Kerkvliet: Everyday Forms of Peasant Res Cb
First published in 1987. This is volume 9 of the libray of peasant studies series. The contributors focus on a vast and relatively unexplored middle-ground of peasant politics between passivity and …
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€55.40
Ferdinand Sutterlüty & Almut Poppinga: Verdeckter Widerstand in demokratischen Gesellschaften
Verdeckten Widerstand gab und gibt es nicht nur in vordemokratischen und autoritär geführten Gesellschaften, sondern auch in vielen Bereichen gegenwärtiger Demokratien. Die vielfältigen Formen der …
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€29.99
James C. Scott: Contra el estado
Este libro rompedor revisa, a contracorriente de la opinión establecida, lo que se creía saber de las primeras civilizaciones en la llanura aluvial mesopotámica y en otros lugares. Se creía que la …
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€13.99
