James Scott on the topic of "The Art of Not Being Governed"

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11 жыл бұрын

Scott is the distinguished Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and is Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University.
The author of several books, such as Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed; The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia; Domination and the Arts of Resistance; and Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Scott is recognized worldwide as an authority on Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies.
His research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations and anarchism. He is currently teaching Agrarian Studies and Rebellion, Resistance and Repression.
Scott is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science, Science, Technology and Society Program at M.I.T., and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He received his bachelor's degree from Williams College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.
The lecture is sponsored by the UNE Department of Political Science and the Student Club "People of Politics."
The University of New England is Maine's largest private university. UNE offers more than 40 bachelor’s degrees in needed fields, from the health professions, to the health and life sciences, to business and the humanities. We also offer 30-plus graduate, professional and doctoral degrees in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, social work and more. UNE learning happens online and on three beautiful campuses: on the shore in Biddeford, Maine, in-town in Portland, Maine, and at our study-abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco. Visit www.une.edu for complete information.

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@zonunralte4742 4 жыл бұрын

I am a Mizo from Mizoram. Our language is used to derive the term 'Zomia'. (I belong to one of the hill tribes described in this book) We have a number system from 1 to billion, each digit with a name. The western counting system or Indian counting system doesn't have this. I think it says a lot about us having been a part of a larger civilization at some point in our history and, due to some reason, had decided to break ties and hide away. Maybe to escape enslavement, famine, diseases, or the tyranni of the state. Thank you, Mr. Scott for writing a book about us.

@thangkhual4769 Жыл бұрын

I am Zomi and my hypothesis is that we could’ve been the Pyu people in Myanmar. Their necklaces look like our shawls.

@arofhoof 7 ай бұрын

Fascinating history, may I ask you it there was concept of currency and trade within Zomia territories?

@juacocaceres Ай бұрын

Jajajajaja. ¡If you believe it! There is an importan margin of speculation in this type of biased reading of Scott. It is always better to consider yourself different and better than others, and if possible be part of a great story of prehistoric insubordination. Now you can be a song-writer, an anarchist whit a guitar and papers from Yale, an institution radically state.

@CCreal1312 16 күн бұрын

Rest in peace ❤

@Hashishin13 9 жыл бұрын

It starts at 8:30, you are welcome posterity.

@rockfordberetta8414 7 жыл бұрын

He's right, it really does. Just saved me 8 minutes and 20 seconds!

@CatarinoEscobar 5 жыл бұрын

8:00 es más correcto, creo...

@Awesomeguy614 3 жыл бұрын

You da real MVP

@mvseelam5415 3 жыл бұрын

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@mvseelam5415 3 жыл бұрын

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@AthelstanofHwicee 3 жыл бұрын

As a individual from a hill dwelling tribe in Zoumia, this is riveting stuff for me.

@AvgDude 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant speech... It's also supported by the traditional associations of traveling, migration, and nomadic life being more free than static geographic existence. The most common way of escaping oppressive government is exodus, if possible.

@bryandovbergman5654 4 жыл бұрын

Growing up in Appalachia on the West Virginia PA line is somewhat removed from American state, but not nearly as much as he is talking about in SE Asia.

@polpotism666 15 күн бұрын

最近幾天才查到詞條，準備開始看逃避統治的藝術。而今驚聞去世之消息，不能不令人嘆惋。

@gushutchinson8758 15 күн бұрын

So few people realise that gatherer hunters were generally taller, healthier and lived longer than the farmers living in densely populated lowlands alongside their domestic animals with grain stores, so, lice, ticks, fleas and species jumping ZOONOTIC diseases, as well as slavery, conscription and taxes and of course occasional droughts, floods and famine... Jim c. Scott puts that record straight.. And ii for one thank him for that!

@gushutchinson8758 14 күн бұрын

A truly great man has passed... Much Love to his family, friends and colleagues... The oldest homo sapiens found to date is 360,000 in Morroco, I think discovered after thus lecture and in any case doesn't contradict anything he's saying!

@SK-le1gm Жыл бұрын

run to the hills… run for your lives.

@Ben-xx1er Ай бұрын

Iron Maiden

@mouminawagner7047 Күн бұрын

We try to avoid living in one country for long time. Changing places, living under the radar and evading government control. There are visa issues and limitations but in general we feel free and NOT tied to any society. We don't want their 'blessings ' nor their money, but feel responsible for our actions, people we meet and our environment. We are the New Bedouins ! Best decision!

@johns4775 5 жыл бұрын

Scott's views seem to be consistent with Carneiro's theory of state formation. If you can escape the rule of a state by making yourself scarce, do it. States may be disinterested in ruling these people because they've got little or nothing for states to steal and the costs to states of subduing them isn't worth the costs.

@vtgothic2702 9 жыл бұрын

permaculture moves in this direction - a worthwhile exploration.

@somjithazra 3 жыл бұрын

Why do you think so??😁 I reached the same conclusion..but rather intuitively.

@Crusoe40 14 күн бұрын

@somjithazra I think Permaculture, amongst other things, embodies wealth very differently to the taxing and tax-paying states and states peoples.

@JamesScottNGOThinkTank 5 ай бұрын

This proves that James Scott name have the same point of view or should we call common denominator and it is writing a book, I also have Artofthehak project which is more about cybersecurity education, this master of yours Professor Scott is truly amazing hoping to be like yours some day.

@tribalwildling9926 3 жыл бұрын

No wonder the script of my native vernacular was eaten by a dog on the way up to the hills where we dwell. Interestingly, most of my brethren aren't bothered about surname. My official name doesn't carry my family name.

@afivey 3 жыл бұрын

46:26 Would love to see these time-scaled maps. I imagine they have to be highly specific to the location they're used *from* (to to tidal direction often creating differences in travel time of journeys A to B vs B to A) and used *when* because of inevitable season issues such as rainy season or frozen rivers and waterways come wintertime. I expect atlases of these would be vital secrets throughout history for militaries or trade houses.

@Lllswe 4 жыл бұрын

Definitely there exist many Zomias around the spaces available on the geography, with various degree of anarchy.

@godofallbums 9 жыл бұрын

how dare you take off your jacket

@Hashishin13 9 жыл бұрын

I think it could be argued that those who voluntarily chose to go overseas to new world colonies may have something in common with these people, the colonists were usually fleeing one or another form of repression. The same could probably be said for the pioneers pushing west and the people who choose to be mountain men even today.

@Yotrymp 3 жыл бұрын

And then those colonists conquered Native Americans.

@alexgibson2871 Жыл бұрын

i like the image of states reach as seeking the path of least resistance - i've worked in state sector and thats exactly how it feels ;)

@jameskoss 10 жыл бұрын

This was a fascinating talk. I never thought of root crops being a tactic, used against having our food taken from us, by the fascist state. I wonder how many more such examples can be revealed. www.AssafKoss.com

@TheSweetLondonLife 2 жыл бұрын

Some of the smartest brains are almost always the wittiest too. He said he would be warned by having something thrown at him if he exceeded the 45 minute timeline! 🤣🤣🤣Gold!

@gushutchinson8758 14 күн бұрын

Maybe Detroit counts as a modern non state space in that the state and civic society has largely fled as the car industry moved out wholesale!?