James C. Scott
- James Scott
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- Date of birth
- 1936-12-02
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- Mount Holly
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- 2024-07-19
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James Campbell Scott (December 2, 1936 – July 19, 2024) was an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics. He was a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies.
Trained as a political scientist, Scott's scholarship discussed peasant societies, state power, and political resistance. From 1968 to 1985, Scott wrote influentially on agrarian politics in peninsular Malaysia. While he retained a lifelong interest in Southeast Asia and peasantries, his later works ranged across many topics: quiet forms of political resistance, the failures of state-led social transformation, techniques used by non-state societies to avoid state control, commonplace uses of anarchist principles, and the rise of early agricultural states. His posthumous book, In Praise of Floods, is expected to be published in February 2025. The New York Times described his research as "highly influential and idiosyncratic".
Scott received his bachelor's degree from Williams College and his MA and PhD in political science from Yale. He taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1976 and then at Yale, where he was Sterling Professor of Political Science. In 1991, he became director of Yale's Program in Agrarian Studies. At the time of his death, The New York Times described Scott as among the most widely read social scientists.
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American political scientist and anthropologist.
Last modified: 2020-10-21 (revision #35193)
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Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia | Hardcover | 978-0-300-15228-9 | 2009-09-30 |
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play | Hardcover | 978-0-691-15529-6 | 2012-10-14 |
Die Mühlen der Zivilisation | Paperback | 978-3-518-29934-0 | 2020-12 |
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