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James Campbell Scott (December 2, 1936 – July 19, 2024) was an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics. He was a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies, subaltern politics, anarchism, and high modernism.
6 days ago · Scott wrote about the ways people resist authority—and the unmapped territories where much of that resistance takes place. James C. Scott, who died July 19 at age 87, was one of the most ...
3 days ago · These stirring words were written by James C Scott, Yale professor of political science, who died on July 19, aged 87. They are also the closing lines of Weapons of the Weak (1985), a modern-day masterpiece of social science, which not only reshaped the study of peasant resistance, but subaltern resistance in general.
James Scott (born 14 January 1979) is a British former actor from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He is best known for playing EJ DiMera on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives and Ethan Cambias on the ABC soap opera All My Children.
5 days ago · About three decades later, the experience would provide James C Scott the basis for his groundbreaking work, The Weapons of the Weak. It explored the techniques used by peasants to resist state power and launched Scott as one of the leading figures of resistance studies. Scott, who died on July 19 aged 87, often described the book that explored ...
6 days ago · James Scott was born in Beverly, New Jersey, the son of a doctor with West Virginia roots who died when Scott was nine years old. He was educated at the Moorestown Friends School, a small Quaker school where the Quaker ethos, he said, had a distinct influence on him.
Jul 19, 2024 · James C. Scott, Sterling Professor Emeritus, Political Science; Acting Director, Agrarian Studies; Professor Emeritus, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Anthropology and Institute for Social and Policy Studies passed peacefully in his home in Durham, CT on Friday, July 19, 2024.. Jim, who returned to Yale in 1976, was at the time of his death the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science as well as a professor of Anthropology.
Jul 22, 2024 · KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has expressed deep sadness over the passing of James C. Scott, a distinguished professor at Yale University. In a Facebook post, Anwar said that Scott, a political scientist and specialist of Southeast Asia, was known for his exceptional contributions to political science and anthropology ...
Jul 21, 2024 · The other great book by James C. Scott is Weapons of the Weak. "Seeing Like A State" is a superb book, but I'll always remember Scott for "The Art of Not Being Governed." I was a history major in college, and seeing history from the point of view of non-state peoples was revelatory for a young student. I greatly enjoyed it, truly one of those ...
May 8, 2023. The Oral History Center at UC Berkeley is proud to release, In A Field All His Own: The Life and Career of James C. Scott, a documentary that offers an unprecedented look at the famed Yale political scientist.
