Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed /
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1998]
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| Series: | Yale agrarian studies.
Yale ISPS series. |
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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.