James C Scott
James Scott, Ph.D., Yale University, 1967, is the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and is co-Director of the Agrarian Studies Program and a mediocre farmer. His research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations and anarchism.
His publications include
- Domination and the Arts of Resistance, Yale Press, 1985
- Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Yale Press 1980
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, Yale Press, 1998
- The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, Yale Press, 2008
- Two Cheers for Anarchism, Princeton Press, 2013
- Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest Agrarian States, Yale Press, 2017
Education
1954-58 B.A. Williams College, Political Economy
1958-59 auditor Rangoon University, Burma; Economics
1959-60 auditeur, Institut des Sciences Politiques, Paris; Political Science
1961-63 M.A. Yale University; Political Science
1963-67 Ph.D. Yale University; Political Science
Source: Yale University
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