The Art of Not Being Governed
An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
by James C. Scott
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James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of “internal colonialism.” This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states.
Scott’s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.
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Politics and government, Rural conditions, Peasantry, Ethnology, Political activity, Peasants, Minority Studies, Anthropology, Discrimination & Race Relations, Ethnology, asia, Peasants, asia, Southeast asia, politics and government, Southern states, rural conditions, Southeast asia, social conditions, Anarchism, Staat, Bergbewohner, Politieke macht, Plattelandsbevolking, Platteland, Indigenous peoples, Government relations, Ethnology--southeast asia, Peasants--political activity, Peasants--political activity--southeast asia, Indigenous peoples--government relations, Indigenous peoples--southeast asia--government relations, Ds523.3 .s36 2009, 305.800959, 15.75Places
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Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia is a book-length anthropological and historical study of the Zomia highlands of Southeast Asia written by James C. Scott published in 2009. Zomia, as defined by Scott, includes all the lands at elevations above 300 meters stretching from the Central Highlands of Vietnam to northeastern India. That encompasses parts of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar, as well as four provinces of China. Zomia's 100 million residents are minority peoples "of truly bewildering ethnic and linguistic variety", he writes. Among them are the Akha, Hmong, Karen, Lahu, Mien, and Wa peoples.
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