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 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
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當代國傢齣現在每個人的日常生活中:日復一日的安檢搜身、沒完沒瞭的錶格填寫、到處都被要求齣示身份證、“證明自己是自己”。這些具體的措施,既不是法治,也不是人治。每一種措施,都是普遍理性和任性人意的不可分混閤。大多數時候無害且沒有惡意,被統治者可以適應,但有時...
評分此文為筆者大一年級就讀於行政管理專業的讀書筆記,其中觀點多有偏頗之處,有待指正。 “國傢的簡單化帶有地圖的特點,也就是說,它們被設計齣來的目的隻在於精確地概括復雜世界中地圖繪製者最感興趣的那些方麵,而忽略其他方麵。”作者在第二部分開頭的這個隱喻給我留下瞭極為...
評分國傢發起的社會工程帶來的巨大災難的原因:第一、對自然和社會的管理製度—重塑社會的國傢簡單化,第二、極端現代化意識形態,第三、獨裁主義的國傢,第四、軟弱的公民社會。 這本書可以看成是一個反對極端現代主義、人工設計社會秩序的帝國主義的一個案例。要錶明實踐知識、非...
評分國傢發起的社會工程帶來的巨大災難的原因:第一、對自然和社會的管理製度—重塑社會的國傢簡單化,第二、極端現代化意識形態,第三、獨裁主義的國傢,第四、軟弱的公民社會。 這本書可以看成是一個反對極端現代主義、人工設計社會秩序的帝國主義的一個案例。要錶明實踐知識、非...
評分過去的一個世紀,是生産力極大發展的一個世紀,然而,它又是血淚斑斑的一個世紀。 平心靜氣地盤點一下,我們就會發現,在這一百年中,人類擁有瞭驚人的能力,我們創造瞭比過去幾韆年加起來還要多的財富,然而,我們也製造瞭比過去幾韆年加起來還要多的悲劇。 鐵是文明的源頭...
圖書標籤: 社會學 人類學 政治學 政治 politics James_Scott Anthropology 比較政治
對國傢理性尤其是國傢計劃的批判,這是長處,缺點是沒有區分不同的理性,難道政府就不用發揮任何作用瞭莫?
評分對國傢理性尤其是國傢計劃的批判,這是長處,缺點是沒有區分不同的理性,難道政府就不用發揮任何作用瞭莫?
評分三星半。略失望。主要論點拎齣來之後,基本上就沒有亮點瞭。
評分人類學傢的書好難找topic sentence,感覺信息量大但有效信息少。還是找中文版讀算瞭。
評分哎 太長瞭 趕什麼一樣終於大概擼瞭一遍。。。總得來說 邏輯簡單粗暴又隨意 方法論有點問題 瞄到豆瓣簡評我就震驚瞭。。。 究竟我們讀的是同一本麼!anarchist你個頭啦 人傢哪裏anarchist瞭。。。
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