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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Scott James C"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Seeing like a state [[electronic resource] ] : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / / James C. Scott"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"New Haven, : Yale University Press, c1998"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9786611729134"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-281-72913-2"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-300-12878-9"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (462 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Yale agrarian studies"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Yale ISPS series"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"338.9"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Central planning - Social aspects"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Social engineering"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Authoritarianism"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-434) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"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."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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 "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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."]