James Scott on the topic of "The Art of Not Being Governed"
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Scott is the distinguished Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and is Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University.
The author of several books, such as Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed; The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia; Domination and the Arts of Resistance; and Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Scott is recognized worldwide as an authority on Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies.
His research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations and anarchism. He is currently teaching Agrarian Studies and Rebellion, Resistance and Repression.
Scott is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science, Science, Technology and Society Program at M.I.T., and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He received his bachelor's degree from Williams College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.
The lecture is sponsored by the UNE Department of Political Science and the Student Club "People of Politics."
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I am a Mizo from Mizoram. Our language is used to derive the term 'Zomia'. (I belong to one of the hill tribes described in this book) We have a number system from 1 to billion, each digit with a name. The western counting system or Indian counting system doesn't have this. I think it says a lot about us having been a part of a larger civilization at some point in our history and, due to some reason, had decided to break ties and hide away. Maybe to escape enslavement, famine, diseases, or the tyranni of the state. Thank you, Mr. Scott for writing a book about us.
I am Zomi and my hypothesis is that we could’ve been the Pyu people in Myanmar. Their necklaces look like our shawls.
Fascinating history, may I ask you it there was concept of currency and trade within Zomia territories?
Jajajajaja. ¡If you believe it! There is an importan margin of speculation in this type of biased reading of Scott. It is always better to consider yourself different and better than others, and if possible be part of a great story of prehistoric insubordination. Now you can be a song-writer, an anarchist whit a guitar and papers from Yale, an institution radically state.
It starts at 8:30, you are welcome posterity.
He's right, it really does. Just saved me 8 minutes and 20 seconds!
8:00 es más correcto, creo...
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As a individual from a hill dwelling tribe in Zoumia, this is riveting stuff for me.
Rest in peace ❤
最近幾天才查到詞條，準備開始看逃避統治的藝術。而今驚聞去世之消息，不能不令人嘆惋。
Brilliant speech... It's also supported by the traditional associations of traveling, migration, and nomadic life being more free than static geographic existence. The most common way of escaping oppressive government is exodus, if possible.
Growing up in Appalachia on the West Virginia PA line is somewhat removed from American state, but not nearly as much as he is talking about in SE Asia.
permaculture moves in this direction - a worthwhile exploration.
Why do you think so??😁 I reached the same conclusion..but rather intuitively.
@somjithazra I think Permaculture, amongst other things, embodies wealth very differently to the taxing and tax-paying states and states peoples.
Scott's views seem to be consistent with Carneiro's theory of state formation. If you can escape the rule of a state by making yourself scarce, do it. States may be disinterested in ruling these people because they've got little or nothing for states to steal and the costs to states of subduing them isn't worth the costs.
This proves that James Scott name have the same point of view or should we call common denominator and it is writing a book, I also have Artofthehak project which is more about cybersecurity education, this master of yours Professor Scott is truly amazing hoping to be like yours some day.
I think it could be argued that those who voluntarily chose to go overseas to new world colonies may have something in common with these people, the colonists were usually fleeing one or another form of repression. The same could probably be said for the pioneers pushing west and the people who choose to be mountain men even today.
And then those colonists conquered Native Americans.
46:26 Would love to see these time-scaled maps. I imagine they have to be highly specific to the location they're used *from* (to to tidal direction often creating differences in travel time of journeys A to B vs B to A) and used *when* because of inevitable season issues such as rainy season or frozen rivers and waterways come wintertime. I expect atlases of these would be vital secrets throughout history for militaries or trade houses.
run to the hills… run for your lives.
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So few people realise that gatherer hunters were generally taller, healthier and lived longer than the farmers living in densely populated lowlands alongside their domestic animals with grain stores, so, lice, ticks, fleas and species jumping ZOONOTIC diseases, as well as slavery, conscription and taxes and of course occasional droughts, floods and famine... Jim c. Scott puts that record straight.. And ii for one thank him for that!
No wonder the script of my native vernacular was eaten by a dog on the way up to the hills where we dwell. Interestingly, most of my brethren aren't bothered about surname. My official name doesn't carry my family name.
i like the image of states reach as seeking the path of least resistance - i've worked in state sector and thats exactly how it feels ;)
Definitely there exist many Zomias around the spaces available on the geography, with various degree of anarchy.
We try to avoid living in one country for long time. Changing places, living under the radar and evading government control. There are visa issues and limitations but in general we feel free and
NOT tied to any society. We don't want their 'blessings ' nor their money, but feel responsible for our actions, people we meet and our environment.
We are the New Bedouins ! Best decision!
how dare you take off your jacket
A truly great man has passed... Much Love to his family, friends and colleagues... The oldest homo sapiens found to date is 360,000 in Morroco, I think discovered after thus lecture and in any case doesn't contradict anything he's saying!
Maybe Detroit counts as a modern non state space in that the state and civic society has largely fled as the car industry moved out wholesale!?
This was a fascinating talk. I never thought of root crops being a tactic, used against having our food taken from us, by the fascist state. I wonder how many more such examples can be revealed.
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Some of the smartest brains are almost always the wittiest too. He said he would be warned by having something thrown at him if he exceeded the 45 minute timeline! 🤣🤣🤣Gold!
His remarks on cossacks are surprisingly superficial for someone giving a lecture on a topic like this
hey this isn't the guy from days of our lives
Seven
The answer to the riddle I so wish to letter by letter digit it here for the whole structure including it's already bedazzled flesh supposed counterpart to clearly and equivocally state, of course it is, and it all knew the riddle before you wrote it, but instead I will slowly and as methodically as I will paragraph it, and in doing so, I will write the answer to the riddle without ever having or doing so.
Thinking, predominantly by far the most used and useful either way as advantageous or disadvantageous ability a human being is within the possession of, equally, I will argue is with and within most instances of it claimed or believed as having been so, almost none existent.
Not because it does not occur, but instead, because it is very very, and in regards to most instances extremely hard to undertake, considering almost anyone is constantly and actively involved, as a consequence, sequence or desirable necessity in or combinations of a degenerative process and degenerate function.
In as simple terms as possible, making such terms the most complex ever to be..
One can only think in regards to anything one never, might or actually wants.
Meaning any "thoughts" which can be transferable into a possible, might or actual want, is and was never a thought, and it has no thinking process or function regarding it.
A thought, more precisely all of its possible regards are impossible to want logically.
If and when the opposite, one, anyone doing so is under a most serious and debilitating all encompassing stupidity hallucination.
Such sequential consequence, gives rise to the most stupid as it gets question.....
What is one involved in most instances of ones existence, if and when such involvement is not thinking, yet one is so sure through ones scientific understanding or pure belief, one is actually and literally always doing that, at the ones best ability, mediocre or worst....!?!?
First and foremost, with the foremost being second to the first, wether as a thought or a want is to be known first, let alone established second in order to know which is which, let us not let go to waste mathematics, making as much use of it as possible as a first example, but such use or waste is it through thought or want, which is another question....
Assume one plus one, and assume the first assumption equaling two, in order to get two, one has to want one, if and when one only thinks of one, such a process will never get two, such a process will only get the thinking of one as one. Whereas the wanting of one, exactly or similar to one, will get two one's, equaling to two.
There is absolutely no thinking process involved in one plus one equaling two, absolutely none.
The most obvious instance made of many continuous instances is a city, specifically and in order to see it, a very big city.
Assume one is at a point, where a marvellous and considerable view of a very big city is awarded to one from such a point. This specific point of view, can (and within almost all of the instances) is only thought. One, anyone cannot want a city, is impossible to do so, physically and mentally, one can only think of it. If one is within an instance where one wants a city, such one is hallucinating, a most serious and debilitating all encompassing stupidity hallucination.
© Miri
6 July/ 2024
This makes me thing of Jeremiah Johnson...March is a green muddy month down below, some folks like it...farmers mostly.
James Scott on the issue of “The Topic of “The Art of Not Being Governed””
Those wanting Trump's wall should hear this. lol
Theory vs reality.
@@Yotrymp But these are real world examples, the fact that state, intrinsic to its nature, brutalizes, oppresses, and kill people.
51:10 anarchist hill tribes hire you.... root crops!
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The most difficult, and by being so the most important, equally to the first one plus the other second one, the most obscure, elusive, disturbing and much more, yet being the first and the second as a plus to eachother, which equals to a consecutive inescapable consequential, is none other than the most supposedly obvious concept of god.
Strangely not, it only follows as a want and not a thought in this instance, which clearly shows on this paragraph to paragraph slow method of giving an answer to a riddle which is not it's answer....
One, anyone can but only think of god, be it as a concept or reality of existence, and in doing so the most fundamental advancement of all which is human can, and has proceeded, since a begining.
Yet all and each paragraph methodically written here shows clearly, that within most instances, one, meaning anyone rarely, possibly close to impossibly ever thinks of god, instead one, meaning anyone, uses the opposite to thinking in regards to god, which is that of a want, be it in regards to a concept or that of a reality of existence.
So complex is this achievement as a literal structure, that one can have a godless god, meaning a clear no belief in any god statement, and still have absolutely no thinking process regarding all of its aspects, while simultaneously a most powerful active opposite to it, being that of a want.
Which in all of possible instances is accepted and presented as thinking, made and constructed of many thoughts.
If and when that be the case, meaning prolonged thinking made and constructed of many thoughts is achieved in regards to the concept of god, one will know the universe as it will never be known, yet as a result the best one, meaning anyone can come currently close to, is a physical representation or a characteristics attributable trait, showing clearly one, anyone involved in doing so, absolutely no thinking is ever used, none what so ever.
I have never truly tried a sci-fi question, simply because I have found such stupid, yet in being reality based questions are equally as stupid as, then one I might try, hahahah would in considerable numbers instantly be, if in equally considerable numbers would be reading what I have never truly tried also.
Here it goes my sci-fi question, and it is the why to the second assumed example, that of only being able to think of a big city if and when in a position where a considerable point of such a view is available, and not be able to physically want a city, only through the process of debilitating all encompassing stupidity hallucination, which by the way is one of the many simple mathematical deductional wants, similar to the first example of one plus one.
Once at a point where a considerable view of a big city is available, in order to physically want such a city, an equal point where one can observe two big cities at an equally detailed considerable view has to be also, yet still one would not be able to physically want, instead only think of it. In fact not with even three cities considerably detailed view, nor four, maybe and that is a reach five which after that no positive integers need to be used, making the plausible possibility of a human being to physical want a city, while not being in debilitating all encompassing stupidity hallucination, really, a physics and mathematics based physical reality.
Simply because where is a point which can give one if observing not just one detailed considerable point of view of a big city, but two instead, in this world other than a map.
Meaning a mathematical probability is, with it's fact the ability to be thought, yet a physical ability to be wanted does not exist with it's fact, the visual perspective, without the hallucination method of a map or other similar methods.
It is the why to why it is so hard to think while thinking one is always thinking, more precisely to know when and how.
Assume one is physically existing in a type structure of visual perspective as a proceedable in all possible directions, now assume one is at point a, one which gives one a considerable view of a big city. Fallowing that, at what point from there one has to be with the same visual perspective type structure as proceedable in all possible directions in order to see two big cities and three and so on at the exact similar details of point (a), which gives as a consequence the ability of a physical want in terms of a life form.
© Miri
6 July/2024
45:53 -47:30
44:01
What a incredible anarchist illusion. To Netflix.