Seeing Like a State¶
Scott, J. C. (1998). Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press.
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Primes¶
- Formal vs. Informal Structures
This sourceCritiques high-modernist state schemes that impose abstract legibility while disregarding local, adaptive practical knowledge (metis).
- Native-Category Flattening
- In colonial and administrative classification, state taxonomies for caste, tribe, or occupation overwrite the lived partitions populations use, creating administrative facts that feed back into politics.
This sourceShows how state administrative taxonomies overwrite locally meaningful partitions of land, identity, and occupation, creating legible facts that feed back into politics — the colonial/administrative flattening case.
- In colonial and administrative classification, state taxonomies for caste, tribe, or occupation overwrite the lived partitions populations use, creating administrative facts that feed back into politics.
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