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James Campbell Scott (December 2, 1936 – July 19, 2024) was an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics. He was a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies, subaltern politics, anarchism, and high modernism.
James Scott is a Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. He studies political economy, agrarian societies, resistance, Southeast Asia, and anarchism.
May 8, 2023 · Learn about the life and career of James C. Scott, a renowned scholar in political science, anthropology and environmental studies. The documentary features interviews with Scott and his colleagues at Yale and UC Berkeley, covering his influential works and intellectual journey.
3 days ago · James C. Scott, the political scientist, anthropologist and anarchist thinker, whose work has had an increasing footprint in the artworld, has died. A professor of political science at Yale University, much of Scott’s work has involved looking at historical models of how ‘powerless’ or subaltern groups achieve agency and the strategies ...
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia is a book-length anthropological and historical study of the Zomia highlands of Southeast Asia written by James C. Scott published in 2009.
- James C. Scott
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Jun 20, 2018 · Political scientist and anarchist thinker James C. Scott discusses his work on subaltern groups, social movements and hidden transcripts in an interview with French academics. He argues that anarchism is a praxis of politics, conflict debate and uncertainty, and that centralised revolutions often replicate State oppression.
6 days ago · James C. Scott, Sterling Professor Emeritus, Political Science; Acting Director, Agrarian Studies; Professor Emeritus, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Anthropology and Institute for Social and Policy Studies passed peacefully in his home in Durham, CT on Friday, July 19, 2024.
