James C. Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and is Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale. He studies political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations, and anarchism. His works include Comparative Political Corruption (Prentice-Hall, 1972), The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia (Yale University Press, 1977), Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Yale University Press, 1985), Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (Yale University Press, 1990), Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Yale University Press, 1998), The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale University Press, 2009), and Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play (Princeton University Press, 2012).
ARTICLES FEATURING JAMES C.
Is Government a Protection Racket? How Wheat and Taxes Built the Ancient States
The foundation of the state isn’t warfare; it’s actually the tribute that a strongman would demand from your garden....
Anarchish: James C. Scott’s “Two Cheers for Anarchism”
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 WAS SUPPOSED TO BE a day of reckoning on the left: best-selling liberal author Chris Hedges would finally ...
