Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed (Paper)
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed (Paper) James Scott fiche de lecture - 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
Details of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed (Paper)
| Le Titre Du Livre | Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed (Paper) |
| Auteur | James Scott |
| EAN | 9780300078152 |
| Nombre de pages | 460 pages |
| Editeur | Yale University Press |
| Nom de fichier | seeing-like-a-state-how-certain-schemes-to-improve-the-human-condition-have-failed-paper.pdf |
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