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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, James C. (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1998]
Series:Yale agrarian studies.
Yale ISPS series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • State projects of legibility and simplification. Nature and space ; Cities, people, and language
  • Transforming visions. Authoritarian high modernism ; The high-modernist city: an experiment and a critique ; The Revolutionary Party: a plan and a diagnosis
  • The social engineering of rural settlement and production. Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams ; Compulsory villagization in Tanzania: aesthetics and miniaturization ; Taming nature: an agriculture of legibility and simplicity
  • The missing link. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge: mētis.