Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes To Improve The Human Condition Have Failed
Format: kindle
ASIN: B002ACON5E
Pages no: 465
Edition language: English
“Nomads and pastoralists…hunter-gatherers, Gypsies, vagrants, homeless people, itinerants, runaway slaves, and serfs have always been a thorn in the side of states,” says Scott. (1998, 1) Premodern states, Scott continues, had great difficulty “seeing” their people, and this interfered with “the c...