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 confidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with scientific laws. It was …
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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 confidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with scientific laws. It was released in March 1998, with a paperback version in February 1999. The book catalogues schemes which states impose upon populaces that are convenient for the state since they make societies "legible" but are not necessarily good for the people; census data, standardized weights and measures, and uniform languages make it easier to tax and control the population.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 12260
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Seeing Like a State
Hardcover, 446 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 29 Marzo 1998 da Yale University Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-300-07016-3ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 97026556
Seeing Like a State
audio cd, 1 pagine
Pubblicato il 22 Maggio 2018 da Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5385-5286-5ISBN copiato!
Seeing Like a State
445, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 21 Aprile 1998
- ISBN:
- 978-0-300-07815-2ISBN copiato!
- GoodReads:
- 20186
Seeing Like a State
mp3 cd, 1 pagine
Pubblicato il 22 Maggio 2018 da Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5385-5287-2ISBN copiato!
Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
464, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 27 Luglio 2020 da Yale University Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-300-24675-9ISBN copiato!
L'oeil de l'État
lingua French
Pubblicato il 21 Aprile 2021 da La Découverte.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-348-05735-9ISBN copiato!
Seeing Like a State
464, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 27 Luglio 2008 da Yale University Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-300-12878-9ISBN copiato!
Seeing Like a State
445, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 27 Luglio 2010 da Yale University Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-281-72913-2ISBN copiato!
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