LEADER 03732nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910821221903321 005 20221207211116.0 010 $a9786611729134 010 $a1-281-72913-2 010 $a0-300-12878-9 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300128789 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471981 035 $a(EBL)3420352 035 $a(OCoLC)923592507 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000243409 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218914 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243409 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10322074 035 $a(PQKB)10461108 035 $a(DE-B1597)484954 035 $a(OCoLC)952734797 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300128789 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420352 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210235 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172913 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420352 035 $a(PPN)194959929 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471981 100 $a19970701d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSeeing like a state $ehow certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed /$fJames C. Scott 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (462 p.) 225 1 $aYale agrarian studies 225 1 $aYale ISPS series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-07016-0 311 $a0-300-07815-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 359-434) and index. 327 $apt. 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. 330 $aCompulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry?In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not-and cannot-be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge. The author builds a persuasive case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. He identifies and discusses four conditions common to all planning disasters: administrative ordering of nature and society by the state; a "high-modernist ideology" that places confidence in the ability of science to improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large- scale interventions; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans. 410 0$aYale agrarian studies. 410 0$aYale ISPS series. 606 $aCentral planning$xSocial aspects 606 $aSocial engineering 606 $aAuthoritarianism 615 0$aCentral planning$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aSocial engineering. 615 0$aAuthoritarianism. 676 $a338.9 700 $aScott$b James C$0148325 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821221903321 996 $aSeeing like a State$91553502 997 $aUNINA