Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott — Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998)James C. Scott · 1998 · Book · Chapter on compulsory villagisation in TanzaniaTheorySource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0174 · as of 2026-10-23 · about: Tanzanian ujamaa and villagisation · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“James C. Scott treats Tanzanian villagisation as a high-modernist scheme that disregarded local knowledge, while Coulson notes it made primary schools, dispensaries and water supplies easier to provide.”
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Tanzania: A Political Economy (2nd ed.), chapter 22 ‘Ujamaa and Villagization’
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