Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed [Audiobook] download free by James C. Scott
- Listen audiobook: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
- Author: James C. Scott
- Release date: 1999/1/3
- Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9780300078152
- Rating: 9.36 of 10
- Votes: 742
- Review by: Baylor Patton
- Review rating: 9.98 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/12
- Duration: 5H54M16S in 256 kbps (92.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WAV, TTA, FLAC, WMA, MP3 (compression BZ2, ZIP, LZO, RAR, CBC, CBR, AZW3)
- Total pages original book: 464
- Includes a PDF summary of 53 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 41M59S (10.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 twentieth 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 and original 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 persuasive 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 science to improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large- scale interventions; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Social Welfare & Social Services, Constitution: Government & The State, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Regional & Area Planning, Central Government Policies, Political Science & Theory, Sociology
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 27.13 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x30.99mm
- Weight: 635g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United States
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