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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

By : James C. Scott

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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

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Author : James C. Scott

Pages : 445 pages

Publisher : Yale University Press

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0300078153

ISBN-13 : 9780300078152

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