James C. Scott

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James C. Scott (* 1936 in Mount Holly , New Jersey ) is an American political scientist. He is the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University and a co-founder of the Program in Agrarian Studies there . His research relates to agrarian societies, domination and resistance, agriculture , revolution, Southeast Asia, class theories and anarchism .

Life

Scott is the son of a doctor who died when Scott was nine years old. He attended various schools in the Quaker Religious Community near Philadelphia . He then studied Political Economy at Williams College , Massachusetts, the University of Rangoon in Burma and the Institut des sciences politiques in Paris. After graduating from Yale University with a PhD in Political Science in 1967, he taught at the University of Wisconsin. At the end of the 1970s he conducted field research in a village in Malaysia for two years , which he processed in the book Weapons of the Weak ("The weapons of the weak", 1985). In 1990/1991 he spent a year in Germany as a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . Scott owns a 46 acre farm in Durham, Connecticut.

Awards and grants

Scott was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2020 . He has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, the Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Science, Technology and Society Program at MIT. He also received research grants from the National Science Foundation , the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation . Scott was President of the Association for Asian Studies in 1997.

Fonts

  • Political Ideology in Malaysia: Reality and the Beliefs of an Elite. 1968
  • Comparative Political Corruption. 1972
  • The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. 1976
  • Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. 1985
  • Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. 1990
  • 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
  • Two Cheers for Anarchism . 2012 (German: applause to anarchism: about autonomy, dignity, good work and play. 2014)
  • Decoding subaltern politics: Ideology, disguise, and resistance in agrarian politics. 2013
  • Against the grain. A Deep History of the Earliest States. 2017 (German: The mills of civilization: a deep history of the earliest states. 2019); Review by Hermann Parzinger in: Die Zeit No. 32 from August 1, 2019 [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of James C. Scott at Yale University
  2. ↑ Jennifer Schuessler: Professor Who Learns From Peasants . New York Times, December 4, 2012; Diego Palacios Cerezales et al: Egalitarianism, the teachings of fieldwork and anarchist calisthenics. Interview with James C. Scott . In: Análise Social. Vol. 207 (2013), pp. 447-463
  3. ^ Page of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
  4. ↑ Jennifer Schuessler: Professor Who Learns From Peasants . New York Times, December 4, 2012
  5. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ PeoplePill: James C. Scott: American political scientist and anthropologist - Biography, Life, Family, Career, Works, Facts | PeoplePill. Retrieved September 6, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Scott, James C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Holly, New Jersey