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Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed /
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 inadvert...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1998]
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| Colección: | Yale agrarian studies.
Yale ISPS series. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. 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. 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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| Notas: | "The Institution for Social and Political Studies at Yale University." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 445 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-434) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300128789 0300128789 9786611729134 6611729135 1281729132 9781281729132 |