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.
发表于2024-12-22
Seeing Like a State 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
读《国家的视角》后 耶鲁大学的政治学和人类学教授James C.Scott的《国家的视角》一书,曾在十多年前被同事、同仁屡屡提起,彼时我还是一个NGO(公益组织)的一名专职员工,然而直到如今我才把这本书读完。读完之后,也刚好应了那句话:知识与实践刚好相结合起来。作为曾经在NG...
评分这本书其实我很早就买了,一直搁着没有阅读,主要是基于三个原因:一方面,政治社会学(虽然作者认为自己是一个政治人类学家,他的很多作品确实是非常经典的政治人类学探讨,但我始终认为这是一部政治社会学作品,甚至社会学的痕迹都值得商榷)毕竟是我的“副业”;另一方面,...
评分先从从林业、赋税、土地制度、度量衡、姓氏、城市规划、革命、集体农业的具体案例谈大型规划中的极端现代主义,然后回到认识论谈地方性知识/实践知识。 如书名所说,确实是“国家的视角”,主要从剖析规划者为什么以及如何执迷于清晰化和规整化,但Scott其实也有讲不少来自“规...
评分上路前,抓了几本书,其中就有这本。在火车上看完这本书后,收获很大,感想也很多。我不知道从应该如何来与大家一起分享读后感。这本书内容丰富,资料详实,证据充分,分析深入,有理有据,观点中肯,很多分析判断让人信服,应该说是一本好书,可是在这本书有让我对有的东西有...
评分国家的管理者出于控制的目的,总是希望把社会弄得像机器齿轮一样,冷冰冰的一环扣一环。在这种所谓统一有序、简单清晰的政治理念下,社会的多样性消失了,微观秩序生长的力量被抹杀惹尽。但这种“一刀切”的治理方式却往往事与愿违、弄巧成拙。从德国单一种植的科学林业...
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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 twentieth 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 and original 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 persuasive 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 science to improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large-scale interventions; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans. "A broad-ranging, theoretically important, and empirically grounded treatment of the modern state and its propensity to simplify and make legible a society which by nature is complex and opaque. For anyone interested inlearning about this fundamental tension of modernity and about the destruction wrought in the twentieth century as a consequence of the dominant development ideology of the simplifying state, this is a must-read". -- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of Hitler's Willing Executioners
phenomenal! fantastic! High recommended if you are interested in the underlying ideologies supporting the authoritarian state-lead utopian project. But personally, a romanticizing vision of metis is also dangerous to perpetuate the disastrous outcomes brought by those autocracies.
评分现在看起来,Scott同statist并没有本质区别,只是换了一边站罢了。
评分high-modernism, metis knowledge, on planning, conditions when mass-scale planning is possible. thin and thick city/plant.
评分很多examples和metaphors,语句也算优美,如果不那么话唠就完美了
评分非常渴望了解的话题,可是书却让人非常看不下去。。。
Seeing Like a State 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书