Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
James C. Scott (Author)
"Hailed as 'a magisterial critique of top-down social planning' by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters."--Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2020
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Yale University Press, New Haven, 2020
1 online resource (xiv, 445 pages) : illustrations
9780300252989, 9780300246759, 0300252986, 0300246757
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Part 1. State projects of legibility and simplification. Nature and space ; Cities, people, and language
Part 2. Transforming visions. Authoritarian high modernism ; The high-modernist city : an experiement and a critique ; The revolutionary party : a plan and a diagnosis
Part 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production. Soviet collectivization, captialist dreams ; Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aestehtics and miniaturization ; Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity
Part 4. The missing link. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : Mētis ; Conclusion
"A Veritas paperback."