James C. Scott

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Book Review: Against the Grain by James C. Scott

Book Review: Against the Grain by James C. Scott

I review 'Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States' by James C. Scott. Enjoy! Liked the episode? Please... Read more

6 Mar 2023

4mins

James C. Scott, "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" (Yale UP, 2017)

James C. Scott, "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" (Yale UP, 2017)

We are schooled to believe that states formed more or less synchronously with settlement and agriculture. In Against the... Read more

23 Sep 2022

57mins

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The Domestication of Fire, Animals, Grains and Us - James C. Scott

The Domestication of Fire, Animals, Grains and Us - James C. Scott

https://youtu.be/oQgQRmx19HA #humans #grains #history #domestication #agriculture #archeology #shamanism #jamescscott #f... Read more

12 Apr 2022

38mins

A Book Review - Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

A Book Review - Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Bra... Read more

1 Jun 2021

10mins

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Can we domesticate the state or will it domesticate us? — James C. Scott

Can we domesticate the state or will it domesticate us? — James C. Scott

With many path-breaking books, James C. Scott has for long been a key figure in Southeast Asian Studies and in the compa... Read more

14 Apr 2021

1hr 7mins

320 The Art of Not Being Governed 5, by James C. Scott

320 The Art of Not Being Governed 5, by James C. Scott

This reading is pages 32-39 of the book The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, av... Read more

4 Mar 2021

319 The Art of Not Being Governed 4, by James C. Scott

319 The Art of Not Being Governed 4, by James C. Scott

This reading is pages 22-32 of the book The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, av... Read more

4 Mar 2021

318 The Art of Not Being Governed 3, by James C. Scott

318 The Art of Not Being Governed 3, by James C. Scott

This reading is pages 9-22 of the book The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, ava... Read more

2 Mar 2021

317 The Art of Not Being Governed 2, by James C. Scott

317 The Art of Not Being Governed 2, by James C. Scott

This reading is the first nine pages of the book, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeas... Read more

27 Feb 2021

316 The Art of Not Being Governed 1, by James C. Scott

316 The Art of Not Being Governed 1, by James C. Scott

This reading is the preface of the book, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, a... Read more

26 Feb 2021

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