James C. Scott is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University and current president of the Association of Asian Studies. He is the author of Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts, and The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, all published by Yale University Press.
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics -- the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not -- and cannot -- be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge. The author builds a persuasive case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. He identifies and discusses four conditions common to all planning disasters: administrative ordering of nature and society by the state; a "high-modernist ideology" that places confidence in the ability of science to improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large-scale interventions; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans. "A broad-ranging, theoretically important, and empirically grounded treatment of the modern state and its propensity to simplify and make legible a society which by nature is complex and opaque. For anyone interested inlearning about this fundamental tension of modernity and about the destruction wrought in the twentieth century as a consequence of the dominant development ideology of the simplifying state, this is a must-read". -- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of Hitler's Willing Executioners
一本厚书,除非专门研究者,否则很难读完。导言基本涵盖了文章内容,但行文和翻译比较绕口。我就按照中国读者习惯的方式,对导言进行了再次压缩,有引用原文的,有按照我自己的理解重新编写过的,应该没有改变原意。 这是一个知识上的迂回旅行,我本来要去一个地方,结果顺着...
评分过去的一个世纪,是生产力极大发展的一个世纪,然而,它又是血泪斑斑的一个世纪。 平心静气地盘点一下,我们就会发现,在这一百年中,人类拥有了惊人的能力,我们创造了比过去几千年加起来还要多的财富,然而,我们也制造了比过去几千年加起来还要多的悲剧。 铁是文明的源头...
评分这本书很有名,太有名了,但是我认真读之前没想到他竟然是这么坚定的无政府主义。 这本书前前后后批评了一大堆看上去没什么关联的东西,但是总起来看,其实就是批评了两件事,一是“认识论知识”或者说规范的正式知识的拥有者(也就是科学家们)对这些知识的盲目信任和对metis...
评分很多examples和metaphors,语句也算优美,如果不那么话唠就完美了
评分具体知识很重要,实践很重要,改造社会不能仅靠专业知识绘制蓝图,好,这些我都知道了,但科层化理性化都是现代社会大势所趋,好的研究应该把这个“大势”在社会中造成的影响以及社会对这个影响的回馈之间的互动关系给写出来,作者也承认现代化种种给人们带来的好处,可是分析具体问题的时候就一边倒了。中国的社会主义实践到了今天还在各个层面上影响着我们这个社会运行的逻辑,好的、坏的,这书的那种解释框架显然失之浅薄了。还有,我不认为哲学和数学这样的抽象知识的推广就必然以牺牲实践理性为代价。这两者在很多层面是可以兼容的。我是写民族志的,喜欢强调实践理性和“民智”,但我同时认为更为抽象的理论知识帮助我们从“理”和根本的原则来想问题,而不是退化成“情境”和“条件”。我觉得作者从一个极端走向了另一个极端。
评分phenomenal! fantastic! High recommended if you are interested in the underlying ideologies supporting the authoritarian state-lead utopian project. But personally, a romanticizing vision of metis is also dangerous to perpetuate the disastrous outcomes brought by those autocracies.
评分非常渴望了解的话题,可是书却让人非常看不下去。。。
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