Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (2017)
Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (1990)
James C. Scott, Farmer and Scholar of Anarchism
James Scott on Agriculture as Politics, the Dangers of Standardization and Not Being Governed
James Scott on the topic of "The Art of Not Being Governed"
Macfarlane Interviews Scott
Potential WtW Guests and Topics
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998)
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (2009)
The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia (1976)
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play (2013)
Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985)
What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong?
Will we ever go back to China?
Contrarians Who Make (or Made) Sense
Subaltern (postcolonialism)
Trumpocalypse Bibliography
Zomia (zomi = highlander)
8 Ways Young Americans’ Resistance to Domination Has Been Subdued
1811 Inside Jerry's Brain call: Where's the Line Between Kooks and Precogs?
2022-03-08 Scaffolding Call with Pete and WendyE
2022-07-21 OGM Check-in Call
2022-10 My Unfinished Keynote: A Worldview Built from Contrarians (U22)
A Historian of Forgotten Resistance
Abramo Fimo Kenneth (AFK) Organski
Alice Miller (born Alicija Englard)
bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins)
Benjamin (Ben) Ginsberg (political scientist)
Big Questions Around the Future of Work
Cakewalk (parodied slaveowners)
Can the Subaltern Speak? (1983 essay)
Carl Schmitt (the crown jurist of the Third Reich)
Christopher Alexander (CA)
Crawford B. (CB) Macpherson
Daniel Christian Wahl (DCW)
Does Technology Make Us More or Less Literate? (or dumb?)
eCommerce Authors (Dot-com days)
Edward L. (Eddie) Bernays (1891-1995)
Emotion and Membership Trump Reason Most of the Time. Stories Are the Vessel.
Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination
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James C. Scott is an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics. He is a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies, subaltern politics, and anarchism. His primary research has centered on peasants of Southeast Asia and their strategies of resistance to various forms of domination. The New York Times described his research as "highly influential and idiosyncratic".