Seeing like a state how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
Scott, James C. 1936-2024
Seeing like a state how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed James C. Scott - Veritas paperback edition - New Haven, USA Yale University Press 2020 - xiv, 445 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 19,6cm x 12,9cm x 2.9cm - Yale agrarian studies The Yale ISPS series .
Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-434) and index
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification 9
1. Nature and Space 11
2. Cities, People, and Language 53
Part 2. Transforming Visions 85
3. Authoritarian High Modernism 87
4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique 103
5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis 147
Part 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production 181
6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams 193
7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization 223
8. Taming Nature: An Agricultyure of Legibility and Simplicity 262
Part 4. The Missing Link 307
Klebebindung
9780300246759 18,89
20. Jahrhundert
21. Jahrhundert
Zentrale Wirtschaftsplanung
Wirtschaftsplanung
Entwicklungsplanung
Autoritarismus
Soziales Problem
Theorie
Welt
Central planning--Social aspects
Central planning--Social aspects
Social engineering
Authoritarianism
338.9 320
Seeing like a state how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed James C. Scott - Veritas paperback edition - New Haven, USA Yale University Press 2020 - xiv, 445 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 19,6cm x 12,9cm x 2.9cm - Yale agrarian studies The Yale ISPS series .
Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-434) and index
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification 9
1. Nature and Space 11
2. Cities, People, and Language 53
Part 2. Transforming Visions 85
3. Authoritarian High Modernism 87
4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique 103
5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis 147
Part 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production 181
6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams 193
7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization 223
8. Taming Nature: An Agricultyure of Legibility and Simplicity 262
Part 4. The Missing Link 307
Klebebindung
9780300246759 18,89
20. Jahrhundert
21. Jahrhundert
Zentrale Wirtschaftsplanung
Wirtschaftsplanung
Entwicklungsplanung
Autoritarismus
Soziales Problem
Theorie
Welt
Central planning--Social aspects
Central planning--Social aspects
Social engineering
Authoritarianism
338.9 320