The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.
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
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
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 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 …
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
It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international …
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
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…
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 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 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…
In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice. - James C. Scott
In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.
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
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…
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
The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed…
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