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An edition of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
(1998)
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
New Ed edition
by James C. Scott
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Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.
Subjects
Central planning, Social engineering, Social aspects of Central planning, Social aspects, Authoritarianism, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Economic assistance, domestic, Social problems, Human services, State, thePeople
V. I. Lenin, Jules Nyerere, Le Corbusier, Baron HaussmannPlaces
Tanzania, Soviet Russia, BrasiliaShowing 8 featured editions. View all 8 editions?
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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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