Yahoo India Web Search

Sign In

Search results

  1. www.jstor.org › stable › jSeeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human ...

    Compulsoryujamaavillages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in Chin...

  2. www.jstor.org › stable › pdfScott, James C., Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to ...

    Scott, James C., Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-30007-016-0. In this insightful, profound, and provocative study, written beautifully and elegantly structured, Professor Scott explores and analyzes the cultivation, use,

  3. www.goodreads.com › book › showSeeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human ...

    Jan 1, 2001 · In Seeing Like a State, Scott explores how attempts to radically transform and improve the human condition have failed. He identifies the central problem of statecraft and of government as one of legibility; the state must make its citizens and their activities visible before it can appropriate revenue and orchestrate any plan for the general ...

    • (5.5K)
    • Paperback

  4. Videos

    View all

  5. books.google.com › books › aboutSeeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human ...

    He identifies and discusses four conditions common to all planning disasters: administrative ordering of nature and society by the state; a "high-modernist ideology" that places confidence in the...

  6. books.google.com › books › aboutSeeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human ...

    Mar 17, 2020 · Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. James C. Scott. Yale University Press, Mar 17, 2020 - Political Science - 480 pages. “One of the most profound...

  7. www.jstor.org › stable › pdfSeeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human ...

    Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, by James C. Scott, Yale University Press, 1998. Seeing Like James Scott: Brasilia is to Rio de Janeiro as a tree farm is to a wild forest, James Scott tells us in his new book, Seeing Like a State. The new capital city—inspired by the works of the early-twentieth

  8. mitpressbookstore.mit.edu › book › 9780300246759Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human ...

    Mar 17, 2020 · A fascinating interpretation of the growth of the modern state. . . . Scott presents a formidable argument against using the power of the state in an attempt to reshape the whole of society.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review.