It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international …

- James C. Scott

I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes …

- James C. Scott

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my lif…

- James C. Scott

The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies …

- James C. Scott

The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspir…

- James C. Scott

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

- James C. Scott

The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed…

- James C. Scott

What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that doesn't have some capitalist r…

- James C. Scott

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

- James C. Scott