James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Programme, Yale University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them?slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an ?anarchist history,? is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states.
In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of ?internal colonialism.? This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott?s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.
引 言 宣统三年(1911)夏天,川滇边务大臣赵尔丰在四川康区的“改土归流”事业进入尾声。康区改土归流的目标是把原土司地区从四川省划分出来,单独设立西康省,原土司管理下的各地方将改设为八九十个州县,由外派流官治理。[1]赵尔丰与助手傅嵩炑抵达康定(打箭炉),收缴完...
评分 评分 评分上个学期社会学课上的老教授超喜欢韦伯。他喜欢韦伯在新教伦理里的想法,他说他希望有人证明能它,因为他喜欢这个理论。但是他也说,最近的社会学,大家都在问“你怎么证明这个”之类的问题,却没有人写出比韦伯涂尔干更深刻的思想。 教授说这话之前我读了斯科特的《国家的视...
评分斯科特已经开辟出了“zomia”的新的区域研究范式,对于大陆东南亚和中国西南研究来说应该也是一本必读书目吧。该书内容繁复,资料芜杂,让一位对东南亚几乎不甚了解的农村研究学者来翻译,错误也是一大堆,维舟老师已经在其书评下作出了很多勘误,很期待能读到台湾的译本,不知...
满足了我那颗共产主义和国际主义的内心的同时,鞭笞了那颗脆弱的无政府主义的小心脏。
评分identities--a bandwidth of possibility for adjusting the relation of individuals to the state effect
评分西南研究不得不看。略读加精读,两天总算搞定,关于高地社会族群认同bandwidth的讨论非常有趣。
评分斯氏在数本书中似有种一以贯之的研究认识进路:强调人类学式实地田野、民族志、文本解读和质性认识;展现国家/官僚技术统治/市场经济覆盖地域以外社会形制自我维持和反抗简化统治形态扩展的可能性;以东南亚等边缘落后地区材料观照西欧中心为起始之现代世界;推出现代史和社科的学术书写中国家/现代性中心以外可能的历史书写方式。拒斥国家推展统治术并非罕见,但斯氏强调此种现象在东南亚以族群层次,利用地形、历史叙述和游耕模式战略性展开,逐渐形成一长期游离于各国边缘、仅在最低程度上利用国家资源的山民历史社会实体,故而反思欧美经验中国家扩展的天然性和统治术的建构与权力性,启发未来人类社会形态。对民族建构采强建构学说。反照主流社科,有趣问题便是为何现代民族国家在西欧展开如此顺利至被奉为理所当然,是战争的地理扩展使然?
评分为了证明自己的观点而打造证据的痕迹太明显。
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