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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.
Moyn notes that Scott's work has appealed to many critics of the status quo, from the Marxist left to the libertarian right. Moyn praises Scott and calls the book "sparkling" [ 16 ] but wonders whether Scott is judging the state by standards that make sense to modern residents of stable states, but would confuse the hunter-gatherers whose ...
Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance is a 1985 book on everyday forms of rural class conflict as illustrated in a Malaysian village, written by anthropologist James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press.
Scott wrote about the ways people resist authority—and the unmapped territories where much of that resistance takes place. What James C. Scott Taught Us About Liberty, Authority, Surveillance ...
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is a book by James C. Scott critical of a system of beliefs he calls high modernism, that centers on governments' overconfidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with purported scientific laws. [1] [2] [3]
Jared Bell — who went by “JJ” — died in February 2022 at age 32. His younger brother, Mark Bell, filed the lawsuit. Mark Bell described his brother as "happy-go-lucky" and someone who ...
The lawsuit will allege that the 16-year-old being treated by the S.C. Department of Juvenile Justice for suicidal ideation was left unsupervised. Family of teen who died after suicide attempt at ...
Cause of death was a combination of pneumonia, an iron deficiency and combined drug intoxication of legal drugs for influenza treatment [472] Brent Mydland: 1952 1990 37 Musician Cocaine and morphine Unknown [473] Valerie Grosvenor Myer: 1935 2007 72 Writer Sleeping pills Suicide [474] Yves Navarre: 1940 1994 53 Writer Barbiturates Suicide [475 ...