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20 de dez. de 2009 · These populations fled into the hills over the course of two millennia, he argues, to avoid the imposition of slavery, indentured labor, and taxes by expanding states. There they evolved languages, economies, and ways of life designed to keep the state at bay. Outside of Asia, too, such fugitive populations define the "ungovernable" territories ...
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.”
In The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (James Scott) Matthew Jordan James Scott’s “The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia” frames its argument around a “what if” question: how does our conception of history change if we question certain underlying assumptions?
There can surely have been few other books in Asian Studies and certainly not in South East Asian Studies in recent years that have been as widely anticipated as James C. Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Southeast Asia (Yale University Press, 2009).
5 de jul. de 2010 · James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009; co-published by NUS Press, Singapore, 2010. Pp. xvii, 442; figs., maps, notes, glossary, index. In his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Jean-Jacques Rousseau asked provocatively, “What progress could be made by mankind,...
1 de abr. de 2011 · James C. Scott, The art of not being governed: An anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia. April 2011. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social ...
11 de mai. de 2012 · South Asia Research 2012 32: 1, 71-73 Download Citation If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice.
