Main entry:

Scott, James C.

Title & Author:

Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / James C. Scott.

Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1998.

Description:

xiv, 445 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. State projects of legibility and simplification -- ch. 1. Nature and space -- ch. 2. Cities, people, and language -- pt. .2 Transforming visions -- ch. 3. Authoritarian high modernism -- ch. 4. The high-modernist city : an experiment and a critique -- ch. 5. The Revolutionary Party : a plan and a diagnosis -- pt. 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production -- ch. 6. Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams -- ch. 7. Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aesthetics and miniaturization -- ch. 8. Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity -- pt. 4. The missing link -- ch. 9. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : mētis -- ch. 10. Conclusion.

Summary:

Analyses failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Argues that the succes of designs for socio-economic organization depends on the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal epistemic knowledge.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

Subject:

Central planning.
Economic development Social aspects.
Planification impérative.
Social engineering
Authoritarianism
Central planning Social aspects
development planning.
economic and social development.
urban planning.
rural planning.
state intervention.
development theory.
failure.
standardization.
nature conservation.
centralization.
urbanization.
modernization.
rural area.
collectivism.
village level.
planification du développement.
développement économique et social.
aménagement urbain.
aménagement rural.
intervention de l'Etat.
théorie du développement.
échec.
normalisation.
conservation de la nature.
centralisation.
urbanisation.
modernisation.
zone rurale.
collectivisme.
niveau du village.
planificación del desarrollo.
desarrollo económico y social.
planificación urbana.
planificación rural.
intervención estatal.
teoría del desarrollo.
fracaso.
normalización.
conservación de la naturaleza.
centralización.
urbanización.
modernización.
zona rural.
colectivismo.
a nivel de comunidad.
Brazil.
Russian Federation.
Tanzania.
Brésil.
Russie, fédération.
Tanzanie.
Brasil.
Rusia, Federación.
Tanzanía.

Form/genre:

photograph.
reference.
photographie.
référence bibliographique.
fotografía.
referencia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 179743
Call No.: ID HD87.5.S365; ID:98-B292
Status: Available