James C. Scott, who died July 19 at age 87, was one of the most original and radical political theorists of the past century. Beginning as a political scientist studying Southeast Asia and then ...

Last week, political scientist James C. Scott passed away. Scott’s 1998 book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, easily ranks near the top of my most ...

James C. Scott, who died last month, was just such a double agent. He was among the greatest plumbers in our lifetime of the “sinks and margins of the capitalist, industrial world,” finding in the ...

James C. Scott GRD ’63 GRD ’67, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and professor emeritus of anthropology, died on July 19 at his home in Durham, Connecticut. He was 87 years old. Scott, ...

A documentary film about the life and career of the academic scholar James C. Scott, drawn from interviews conducted as part of the oral history project James C. Scott: Agrarian Studies and Over 50 ...

A narrative in tatters : what I didn't know -- The domestication of fire, plants, animals, and... us -- Landscaping the world : the domus complex -- Zoonoses : a perfect epidemiological storm -- ...

Government and civilization, the political scientist James C. Scott stressed, are not at all the same thing. In wide-ranging studies of how central authority is applied at ground level, Scott ...

"James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household -- subsistence -- at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many otherwise puzzling ...

2023 Movie"Oral History Project Celebrates Famed Political Scientist James C. Scott and the Yale Agrarian Studies Program" ...