Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed /

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"Hailed as 'a magisterial critique of top-down social planning' by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and u...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scott, James C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.
Edition:Veritas paperbacks edition.
Subjects:
Central planning > Social aspects.
Social engineering.
Authoritarianism.
Authoritarianism
Planification impérative > Aspect social.
Ingénierie sociale.
Autoritarisme.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Central planning > Social aspects
Social engineering
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. State projects of legibility and simplification. Nature and space ; Cities, people, and language
  • Part 2. Transforming visions. Authoritarian high modernism ; The high-modernist city : an experiement and a critique ; The revolutionary party : a plan and a diagnosis
  • Part 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production. Soviet collectivization, captialist dreams ; Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aestehtics and miniaturization ; Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity
  • Part 4. The missing link. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : Mētis ; Conclusion.

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