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2024-11-21
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 评分读斯科特《国家的视角》一书,特别是将这本书翻译出来以后,觉得有很多话想说,但是犹豫了很久,因为一直没有理清思路,怕话说不清楚,也就一直没有说。其实最开始吸引我的是这本书的副标题《那些试图改善人类状况的项目是如何失败的》,因为这个副标题至少在两个方面引起了我...
评分据说对技术的批评从老子就开始了,前卫的老子成为了两千年后与海德格尔遥相呼应的素心人,而中间这段浩浩荡荡的时间光谱里,只要你想得出,尽可以把姓氏字母从A到Z的人塞进去。不信?18世纪以来,仅举以B开头的——以赛亚•伯林(Isaiah Berlin),齐格蒙特•鲍曼(Zygmunt...
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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
专注质疑国家三十年,惜略失水准。并非反对一切国家干预和科学知识,主要是在发展型国家/强国家理论热潮过后,剖析特殊情境中特殊政策和话语组合:革命和后殖民提供急切发展和管理要求,科学主义、乌托邦意识形态、强国家和弱小市民社会组合中,移植西方经验的发展政策以满足国家抽税便利和政策简便为优先,过分切削本地知识和社会纽带造成不良后果;但过分强调传统守护和自身发展潜力,似低估本地知识和纽带转变以适应规划的能力。认识论上怀疑社科削减历史偶发性的努力,将国家官僚机器的行政手段、科学规划和市场经济价格机制的简化作用混为一谈,过于简单。或许过分受偏远地区田野经验、人类学视角和农业经济为重点的限制,对工业、科学和农业更多强调其潜在负面性而忽略其灵活性。提出的开放性制度和尊重本地知识、社会纽带,大概已成为共识。
评分high modernism vs. local knowledge
评分专注质疑国家三十年,惜略失水准。并非反对一切国家干预和科学知识,主要是在发展型国家/强国家理论热潮过后,剖析特殊情境中特殊政策和话语组合:革命和后殖民提供急切发展和管理要求,科学主义、乌托邦意识形态、强国家和弱小市民社会组合中,移植西方经验的发展政策以满足国家抽税便利和政策简便为优先,过分切削本地知识和社会纽带造成不良后果;但过分强调传统守护和自身发展潜力,似低估本地知识和纽带转变以适应规划的能力。认识论上怀疑社科削减历史偶发性的努力,将国家官僚机器的行政手段、科学规划和市场经济价格机制的简化作用混为一谈,过于简单。或许过分受偏远地区田野经验、人类学视角和农业经济为重点的限制,对工业、科学和农业更多强调其潜在负面性而忽略其灵活性。提出的开放性制度和尊重本地知识、社会纽带,大概已成为共识。
评分非常渴望了解的话题,可是书却让人非常看不下去。。。
评分很多examples和metaphors,语句也算优美,如果不那么话唠就完美了
Seeing Like a State 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书