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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780300078152 (pbk.) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
Indian Institute for Human Settlements-Bangalore |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Edition number |
23 |
| Classification number |
338.9 SCO |
| Item number |
000766 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Scott, James C. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Seeing like a state : |
| Remainder of title |
how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
James C. Scott |
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[Book]. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1998. |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Yale University Press, |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New Haven : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiv, 445 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill., maps ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
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| Title |
The Yale ISPS series. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
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| Title |
Yale agrarian studies. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-434) and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Pt. 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification. Ch. 1. Nature and Space. Ch. 2. Cities, People, and Language<br/>Pt. 2. Transforming Visions. Ch. 3. Authoritarian High Modernism. Ch. 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique. Ch. 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis<br/>Pt. 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production. Ch. 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams. Ch. 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization. Ch. 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity<br/>Pt. 4. The Missing Link. Ch. 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis. Ch. 10. Conclusion. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. He argues that centrally managed social plans derail 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 on the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge.<br/>The author builds a persuasive case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. And in discussing these planning disasters, he identifies four conditions common to them all: the state's attempt to impose administrative order on nature and society; a high-modernist ideology that believes scientific intervention can improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large-scale innovations; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans. |
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Central planning |
| General subdivision |
Social aspects. |
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Social engineering. |
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Authoritarianism. |
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Economic development |
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Social aspects. |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://openisbn.com/isbn/9780300078152/">http://openisbn.com/isbn/9780300078152/</a> |
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Table of contents |
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