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James Campbell Scott (December 2, 1936 – July 19, 2024) was an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics. He was a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies.
James C. Scott, 87, American anthropologist, political scientist, and author (The Moral Economy of the Peasant, The Art of Not Being Governed, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States). [462] Wolfgang Smith, 94, Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. [463] Hugh Stewart, 96, American tennis player. [464]
Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance is a 1985 book on everyday forms of rural class conflict as illustrated in a Malaysian village, written by anthropologist James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press.
Scott wrote about the ways people resist authority—and the unmapped territories where much of that resistance takes place. What James C. Scott Taught Us About Liberty, Authority, Surveillance ...
James Alexander Scott CIE OBE (2 December 1895 – 24 June 1952), was a British member of the Indian Police Force from 1915 to 1947. In November 1915, Scott joined the Indian Police Force. He then became attached to the 93rd Burma Infantry and completed three years of service with the Indian Army .
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States is a 2017 book by James C. Scott that sets out to undermine what he calls the "standard civilizational narrative" that suggests humans chose to live settled lives based on intensive agriculture because this made people safer and more prosperous. [1]
Among the AI-made photos is a group shot of Van Der Beek, Williams, 44, Holmes, 46, and Jackson, 46, huddled in front of a Christmas tree. A second photo showed the two male actors with Williams ...
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is a book by James C. Scott critical of a system of beliefs he calls high modernism, that centers on governments' overconfidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with purported scientific laws. [1] [2] [3]