A documentary film about the life and career of the academic scholar James C. Scott, drawn from interviews conducted as part of the oral history project James C. Scott: Agrarian Studies and Over 50 ...
“Is a River Alive?” by Robert Macfarlane, W.W. Norton, 384 pages, and “In Praise of Floods” by James C. Scott, Yale University Press, 248 pages. I’ve thought a lot about rivers these past two years, ...
In Praise of Floods, the final published work by the late Yale political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott, is a fleet, searching book, with the laudable ambition to change people’s minds ...
"James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household -- subsistence -- at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many otherwise puzzling ...
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