The art of not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia [Audiobook] download free by James C. Scott
- Listen audiobook: The art of not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
- Author: James C. Scott
- Release date: 2011/4/7
- Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9780300169171
- Rating: 7.59 of 10
- Votes: 843
- Review by: Sean Chapin
- Review rating: 8.37 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/14
- Duration: 5H45M57S in 256 kbps (92.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WMA, TTA, MP3, OGG, MPEG4, WAV (compression AZW4, RAR, ZIP, CHM, CPIO)
- Total pages original book: 464
- Includes a PDF summary of 46 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 35M10S (9.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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, corvee 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Asian History, Ethnic Studies, Political Science & Theory, Anarchism
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 29.48 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x35.56mm
- Weight: 567g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: United States
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