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 20th 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 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 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 human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large-scale interventions; and a prostate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans.
这本书很有名,太有名了,但是我认真读之前没想到他竟然是这么坚定的无政府主义。 这本书前前后后批评了一大堆看上去没什么关联的东西,但是总起来看,其实就是批评了两件事,一是“认识论知识”或者说规范的正式知识的拥有者(也就是科学家们)对这些知识的盲目信任和对metis...
评分读《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...
评分国家的管理者出于控制的目的,总是希望把社会弄得像机器齿轮一样,冷冰冰的一环扣一环。在这种所谓统一有序、简单清晰的政治理念下,社会的多样性消失了,微观秩序生长的力量被抹杀惹尽。但这种“一刀切”的治理方式却往往事与愿违、弄巧成拙。从德国单一种植的科学林业...
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...
评分非常渴望了解的话题,可是书却让人非常看不下去。。。
评分非常渴望了解的话题,可是书却让人非常看不下去。。。
评分非常渴望了解的话题,可是书却让人非常看不下去。。。
评分斯科特是个十分敏锐的家伙
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