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.
读斯科特《国家的视角》一书,特别是将这本书翻译出来以后,觉得有很多话想说,但是犹豫了很久,因为一直没有理清思路,怕话说不清楚,也就一直没有说。其实最开始吸引我的是这本书的副标题《那些试图改善人类状况的项目是如何失败的》,因为这个副标题至少在两个方面引起了我...
評分读斯科特《国家的视角》一书,特别是将这本书翻译出来以后,觉得有很多话想说,但是犹豫了很久,因为一直没有理清思路,怕话说不清楚,也就一直没有说。其实最开始吸引我的是这本书的副标题《那些试图改善人类状况的项目是如何失败的》,因为这个副标题至少在两个方面引起了我...
評分 評分在我看来,这本书是哈耶克理论的实证版,或者说,是案例版。 对于人类社会以及人类社会所处的自然环境,到底是否有可能获得全部的知识和规律?从波普尔的观点来看,是不可能的。理论的创设不过是信息的简化,为我们认识世界提供一个清晰的视角。评价理论的好坏,对世界的解释...
評分读《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...
斯科特是個十分敏銳的傢夥
评分非常渴望瞭解的話題,可是書卻讓人非常看不下去。。。
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