The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by Scott, James C.
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by Scott, James C.

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until...
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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by Scott, James C.

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

$73.58
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by Scott, James C.

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

$73.58
Author: James C. Scott
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm's length from any organized state society

For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them--slavery, conscription, taxes, corv e labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an "anarchist history," is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states.

In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of "internal colonialism." This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott's work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.



Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 11/30/2010
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780300169171


Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/15/2014 pg. 7

About the Author
The author of several books including Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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