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 ...

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

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 -- ...