James Scott on the topic of "The Art of Not Being Governed"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 เม.ย. 2013
- Scott is the distinguished Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and is Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University.
The author of several books, such as Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed; The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia; Domination and the Arts of Resistance; and Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Scott is recognized worldwide as an authority on Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies.
His research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations and anarchism. He is currently teaching Agrarian Studies and Rebellion, Resistance and Repression.
Scott is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science, Science, Technology and Society Program at M.I.T., and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He received his bachelor's degree from Williams College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.
The lecture is sponsored by the UNE Department of Political Science and the Student Club "People of Politics."
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I am a Mizo from Mizoram. Our language is used to derive the term 'Zomia'. (I belong to one of the hill tribes described in this book) We have a number system from 1 to billion, each digit with a name. The western counting system or Indian counting system doesn't have this. I think it says a lot about us having been a part of a larger civilization at some point in our history and, due to some reason, had decided to break ties and hide away. Maybe to escape enslavement, famine, diseases, or the tyranni of the state. Thank you, Mr. Scott for writing a book about us.
I am Zomi and my hypothesis is that we could’ve been the Pyu people in Myanmar. Their necklaces look like our shawls.
Fascinating history, may I ask you it there was concept of currency and trade within Zomia territories?
It starts at 8:30, you are welcome posterity.
He's right, it really does. Just saved me 8 minutes and 20 seconds!
8:00 es más correcto, creo...
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As a individual from a hill dwelling tribe in Zoumia, this is riveting stuff for me.
This proves that James Scott name have the same point of view or should we call common denominator and it is writing a book, I also have Artofthehak project which is more about cybersecurity education, this master of yours Professor Scott is truly amazing hoping to be like yours some day.
Brilliant speech... It's also supported by the traditional associations of traveling, migration, and nomadic life being more free than static geographic existence. The most common way of escaping oppressive government is exodus, if possible.
permaculture moves in this direction - a worthwhile exploration.
Why do you think so??😁 I reached the same conclusion..but rather intuitively.
Growing up in Appalachia on the West Virginia PA line is somewhat removed from American state, but not nearly as much as he is talking about in SE Asia.
Scott's views seem to be consistent with Carneiro's theory of state formation. If you can escape the rule of a state by making yourself scarce, do it. States may be disinterested in ruling these people because they've got little or nothing for states to steal and the costs to states of subduing them isn't worth the costs.
run to the hills… run for your lives.
46:26 Would love to see these time-scaled maps. I imagine they have to be highly specific to the location they're used *from* (to to tidal direction often creating differences in travel time of journeys A to B vs B to A) and used *when* because of inevitable season issues such as rainy season or frozen rivers and waterways come wintertime. I expect atlases of these would be vital secrets throughout history for militaries or trade houses.
No wonder the script of my native vernacular was eaten by a dog on the way up to the hills where we dwell. Interestingly, most of my brethren aren't bothered about surname. My official name doesn't carry my family name.
i like the image of states reach as seeking the path of least resistance - i've worked in state sector and thats exactly how it feels ;)
I think it could be argued that those who voluntarily chose to go overseas to new world colonies may have something in common with these people, the colonists were usually fleeing one or another form of repression. The same could probably be said for the pioneers pushing west and the people who choose to be mountain men even today.
And then those colonists conquered Native Americans.
Definitely there exist many Zomias around the spaces available on the geography, with various degree of anarchy.
how dare you take off your jacket
Some of the smartest brains are almost always the wittiest too. He said he would be warned by having something thrown at him if he exceeded the 45 minute timeline! 🤣🤣🤣Gold!
This was a fascinating talk. I never thought of root crops being a tactic, used against having our food taken from us, by the fascist state. I wonder how many more such examples can be revealed.
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James Scott on the issue of “The Topic of “The Art of Not Being Governed””
hey this isn't the guy from days of our lives
Those wanting Trump's wall should hear this. lol
Theory vs reality.
@@Yotrymp But these are real world examples, the fact that state, intrinsic to its nature, brutalizes, oppresses, and kill people.
This makes me thing of Jeremiah Johnson...March is a green muddy month down below, some folks like it...farmers mostly.
His remarks on cossacks are surprisingly superficial for someone giving a lecture on a topic like this
51:10 anarchist hill tribes hire you.... root crops!
45:53 -47:30
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