Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
James C. Scott
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1998
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| Authors: | Scott, James C. |
| Publisher: |
New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press |
| Subject: | Zentrale Wirtschaftsplanung | Central planning | Wirtschaftsplanung | Economic planning | Entwicklungsplanung | Development planning | Autoritarismus | Authoritarianism | Soziales Problem | Social problem | Theorie | Theory | Welt | World | Autoritärer Staat | Sozialtechnologie | Fehlplanung | Zentralgewalt | Staat | Planung | Sozialer Wandel |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Description [h-net.org] |
| Extent: | XIV, 445 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Literaturhinweise Seite 359 - 434, Index pt. 1. State projects of legibility and simplification -- ch. 1. Nature and space -- ch. 2. Cities, people, and language -- pt. .2 Transforming visions -- ch. 3. Authoritarian high modernism -- ch. 4. The high-modernist city : an experiment and a critique -- ch. 5. The Revolutionary Party : a plan and a diagnosis -- pt. 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production -- ch. 6. Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams -- ch. 7. Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aesthetics and miniaturization -- ch. 8. Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity -- pt. 4. The missing link -- ch. 9. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : m#tis -- ch. 10. Conclusion. pt. 1.State projects of legibility and simplification -- ch. 1.Nature and space -- ch. 2.Cities, people, and language -- pt. .2Transforming visions -- ch. 3.Authoritarian high modernism -- ch. 4. Thehigh-modernist city : an experiment and a critique -- ch. 5. TheRevolutionary Party : a plan and a diagnosis -- pt. 3. Thesocial engineering of rural settlement and production -- ch. 6.Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams -- ch. 7.Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aesthetics and miniaturization -- ch. 8.Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity -- pt. 4. Themissing link -- ch. 9.Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : mētis -- ch. 10.Conclusion. |
| ISBN: | 0-300-07815-3 ; 978-0-300-07815-2 ; 0-300-07016-0 |
| Classification: | Innere Beziehungen des Staates: Allgemeines |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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