Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed /
In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. He argues that centrally managed social plans derail when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot be -...
| Основен автор: | Scott, James C. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
℗♭1998.
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| Серия: |
Yale agrarian studies.
Yale ISPS series. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=187883 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Seeing like a state. |
Съдържание:
- 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 : metis
- ch. 10.
- Conclusion.