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James A. Scott

Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Dept of Laboratory Medicine and …
Verified email at utoronto.ca
Cited by 17209

[BOOK][B] The moral economy of the peasant: Rebellion and subsistence in Southeast Asia

JC Scott - 1977 - books.google.com
James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household—subsistence—at the
center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many …

[BOOK][B] Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed

JC Scott - 2020 - books.google.com
" One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published
in recent decades."--John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as" a magisterial …

Corruption, machine politics, and political change

JC Scott - American political science review, 1969 - cambridge.org
The study of political influence in the West has for the most part focused on the process by
which interest groups affect the content of legislation; hence, the input process has occupied …

[BOOK][B] Weapons of the weak: Everyday forms of peasant resistance

JC Scott - 1985 - books.google.com
Weapons of the Weak is an ethnography by James C. Scott that studies the effects of the
Green Revolution in rural Malaysia. One of the main objectives of the study is to make an …

Patron-client politics and political change in Southeast Asia

JC Scott - American political science review, 1972 - cambridge.org
The analysis presented here is an effort to elaborate the patron-client model of association,
developed largely by anthropologists, and to demonstrate its applicability to political action in …

Ferroelectric memories

JF Scott, CA Paz de Araujo - Science, 1989 - science.org
In the past year it has become possible to fabricate ferroelectric thin-film memories onto
standard silicon integrated circuits that combine very high speed (30-nanosecond read/erase/…

Everyday forms of resistance

JC Scott - Everyday forms of peasant resistance, 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
In the ordinary use of the term," development" is an activity organized from above by
governments and international agencies. It aims at enlightening, benefitting, and making more …

[BOOK][B] Domination and the arts of resistance: Hidden transcripts

JC Scott - 1990 - books.google.com
… In this book, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating discussion both
of … Using examples from the literature, history, and politics of cultures around the world, Scott

Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials

W Eerenstein, ND Mathur, JF Scott - nature, 2006 - nature.com
A ferroelectric crystal exhibits a stable and switchable electrical polarization that is manifested
in the form of cooperative atomic displacements. A ferromagnetic crystal exhibits a stable …

[BOOK][B] Against the grain: A deep history of the earliest states

JC Scott - 2017 - books.google.com
An Economist Best History Book 2017 “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe, Guardian
Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors …