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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scott, James C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1998]
Colección:Yale agrarian studies.
Yale ISPS series.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Nature and space
  • Cities, people, and language
  • Authoritarian high modernism
  • The high-modernist city: an experiment and a critique
  • The Revolutionary Party: a plan and a diagnosis
  • Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams
  • Compulsory villagization in Tanzania: aesthetics and miniaturization
  • Taming nature: an agriculture of legibility and simplicity
  • Thin simplifications and practical knowledge: mētis
  • Conclusion.