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Seeing Like a State

Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott
Publication Date: 31/05/1998
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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 20th 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?
ISBN:
9780300070163
9780300070163
Category:
Politics & government
Publication Date:
31-05-1998
Language:
English
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
234.95x155.7x33.78mm
Weight:
0.81kg
James C. Scott

James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His previous books include Domination and the Arts of Resistance, Seeing Like a State, and The Art of Not Being Governed. He lives in Durham, CT, where he also has a small farm.

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