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UNINA9910777861403321 |
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Autore |
Scott James C |
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Titolo |
Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / / James C. Scott |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c1998 |
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9786611729134 |
1-281-72913-2 |
0-300-12878-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (462 p.) |
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Collana |
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Yale agrarian studies |
Yale ISPS series |
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Disciplina |
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Central planning - Social aspects |
Social engineering |
Authoritarianism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-434) and index. |
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pt. 1. State projects of legibility and simplification -- pt. 2. Transforming visions -- pt. 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production -- pt. 4. The missing link. |
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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, |
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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. |
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UNICAMPANIAVAN00252660 |
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Titolo |
1: Il quattrocento / a cura di Francesco Bausi, Maurizio Campanelli, Sebastiano Gentile, James Hankins ; consulenza paleografica di Teresa |
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Descrizione fisica |
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XV, 484 p. : ill. ; 31 cm |
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