James C. Scott is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University and current president of the Association of Asian Studies. He is the author of Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts, and The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, all published by Yale University Press.
Compulsory "ujamaa" villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics - the 20th century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? In this wide-ranging book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not, and cannot be, fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge. The author builds a case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires and objections of its subjects.
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 ability of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large-scale interventions; and a prostate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans.
發表於2024-06-28
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評分 評分這本書很有名,太有名瞭,但是我認真讀之前沒想到他竟然是這麼堅定的無政府主義。 這本書前前後後批評瞭一大堆看上去沒什麼關聯的東西,但是總起來看,其實就是批評瞭兩件事,一是“認識論知識”或者說規範的正式知識的擁有者(也就是科學傢們)對這些知識的盲目信任和對metis...
評分這本書很有名,太有名瞭,但是我認真讀之前沒想到他竟然是這麼堅定的無政府主義。 這本書前前後後批評瞭一大堆看上去沒什麼關聯的東西,但是總起來看,其實就是批評瞭兩件事,一是“認識論知識”或者說規範的正式知識的擁有者(也就是科學傢們)對這些知識的盲目信任和對metis...
評分國傢的管理者齣於控製的目的,總是希望把社會弄得像機器齒輪一樣,冷冰冰的一環扣一環。在這種所謂統一有序、簡單清晰的政治理念下,社會的多樣性消失瞭,微觀秩序生長的力量被抹殺惹盡。但這種“一刀切”的治理方式卻往往事與願違、弄巧成拙。從德國單一種植的科學林業...
圖書標籤: 社會學 政策 心理學 sociology 政治 建築 曆史 人類學
非常渴望瞭解的話題,可是書卻讓人非常看不下去。。。
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評分非常渴望瞭解的話題,可是書卻讓人非常看不下去。。。
評分斯科特是個十分敏銳的傢夥
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Seeing Like a State 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載