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Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
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by James C. Scott
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Published
February 8, 1999
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Yale University Press
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Written in English.
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First Sentence
Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ix | |
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Part 1. STATE PROJECTS OF LEGIBILITY AND SIMPLIFICATION | 9 | |
| Chapter 1. | Nature and Space | 11 |
| Chapter 2. | Cities, People, and Language | 53 |
| Part 2. TRANSFORMING VISIONS | 85 | |
| Chapter 3. | Authoritarian High Modernism | 87 |
| Chapter 4. | The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique | 103 |
| Chapter 5. | The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis | 147 |
| Part 3. THE SOCIAL ENGINEERING OF RURAL SETTLEMENT AND PRODUCTION | 181 | |
| Chapter 6. | Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams | 193 |
| Chapter 7. | Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization | 223 |
| Chapter 8. | Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity | 262 |
| PART 4. THE MISSING LINK | 307 | |
| Chapter 9. | Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Métis | 309 |
| Chapter 10. | Conclusion | 342 |
| Notes | 359 | |
| Sources for Illustrations | 433 | |
| Index | 435 |
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