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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. Scott · Yale University Press · 1998

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James C. Scott

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TheoryJames 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.