Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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May 14, 2019 - 11:33am

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This key work holds signfice for my research in that it denotes strategies of mapping trends of statecraft within the operation of objects, polices and practices.       

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Scott, James C. Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. Yale University Press, 1998.

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James C. Scott, "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed", contributed by Parikshith Shashikumar, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 14 May 2019, accessed 22 November 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/seeing-state-how-certain-schemes-improve-human-condition-have-failed