Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision.
An edition of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
(1998)
Seeing like a state
how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
by James C. Scott
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Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.
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Central planning, Social engineering, Social aspects of Central planning, Social aspects, Authoritarianism, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Economic assistance, domestic, Social problems, Human services, State, the, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Government & Business, Development, Economic Development, Business Development, Structural Adjustment, General, Pays en développement, Pays de l'Est, Economie dirigée, Régimes totalitaires, Aspects sociaux, Autoritarisme, Planeconomie, Utopieën, Maatschappijverbetering, PLANEJAMENTO ECONÔMICO (ASPECTOS SOCIAIS), AUTORITARISMO (SISTEMAS DE GOVERNO), ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURAL E SOCIAL, PLANEJAMENTO TERRITORIAL (AVALIAÇÃO), Planification économique, Aspect social, Ingénierie socialePeople
V. I. Lenin, Jules Nyerere, Le Corbusier, Baron HaussmannPlaces
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First Sentence
"Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision."
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Page ix
Introduction
Page 1
Part 1.
State Projects of Legibility and Simplification
Page 9
1.
Nature and Space
Page 11
2.
Cities, People, and Language
Page 53
Part 2.
Transforming Visions
Page 85
3.
Authoritarian High Modernism
Page 87
4.
The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique
Page 103
5.
The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis
Page 147
Part 3.
The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production
Page 181
6.
Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams
Page 193
7.
Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization
Page 223
8.
Taming Nature: An Agricultyure of Legibility and Simplicity
Page 262
Part 4.
The Missing Link
Page 307
9.
Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis
Page 309
10.
Conclusion
Page 342
Notes
Page 359
Sources for Illustrations
Page 433
Index
Page 435
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-434) and index.
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