ISBN: 9780300152289

This book, essentially an ?. internal colonialism. This new perspective requires a radical reevaluat of the civilizatal narratives of the lowland states. It is deeply learned, creative an… Mehr…

This book, essentially an ?. internal colonialism. This new perspective requires a radical reevaluat of the civilizatal narratives of the lowland states. It is deeply learned, creative and compassate. Product DescriptFor two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous reg the size of Europe that consists of ports of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them-slavery, conscript, t, corv?e labor, epidemics, and fare. This book, essentially an ? history,? is the first-ever examinat of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispers in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devot to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states.In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determinat. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilizat, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of ?internal colonialism.? This new perspective requires a radical reevaluat of the civilizatal narratives of the lowland states. Scott?s work on Zomia represents a new way to th of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.Review?James Scott has produced here perhaps his most masterful work to date. It is deeply learned, creative and compassate. Few scholars possess a keener capacity to recognize the agency of peoples without history and in entirely unexpected places, practices and forms. Indeed, it leads him ever closer to the ideal that it is possible for humans not only to escape the state, but the very state form itself.?-Prasenjit Duara, Natal University of Singapore (Prasenjit Duara)?A brilliant study rich with humanity and cultural insights, this book will change the way readers th about human history-and about themselves. It is one of the most fascinating and provocative works in social history and political theory I, for one, have ever read.?-Robert W. Hefner, Boston University (Robert W. Hefner)Underscores key, but often overlooked, variables that tell us a great deal about why states rise and expand as well as decline and collapse. There are no books that currently cover these themes in this depth and breadth, with such conceptual clarity, originality, and imaginat. Clearly argued and engaging, this is a path-breaking and paradigm-shifting book.-Michael Adas, Rutgers University (Michael Adas)?Finally, a true history of what pressures indigenous peoples face from these bizarre new invents called nat states. Jim Scott has written a compassate and complete framework that explains the ways in which states try to crowd out, envelop and regiment non-state peoples. He could take out every reference to Southeast Asia and replace it with the Arctic and it would fit the Inuit experience too. We need real applicable history that works, that fits. Truth like this, its too darn rare.?-Derek Rasmussen, former community activist in the Inuit territory of Nunavut, advisor to Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (Derek Rasmussen)Bronze medal winner of the 2009 Book of the Year Ad in the Political Science category, presented by ForeWord Magazine (Book of the Year AdForeWord Magazine 2010-01-01)?Scott?s panoramic view will no doubt enthrall many readers . . . one doesn?t have to see like a Zomian nor pretend to be a, Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Binding: Hardcover, Publication Date: 30-09-2009, Sprache: English, Publication Year: 30-09-2009, Country of Origin: USA, United States, Manufacturer/Packer/Importer Details: ERGODE, Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1, Dimensions (LxWxH) - Inches: 1.4X9.3X6.1, ISBN-10: 0300152280, ISBN-13: 9780300152289, SKU: SONG0300152280, Buchtitel: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Sou, Yale University Press<

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Hardcover, 1st Printing. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 464. First edition, First printing. Hard cover 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Fine book in About Fine lightly rubbed DJ w/creased bottom edge, now in clear protective cover. xviii, 442pp inc. Notes, Glossary, Index., Fine in About Fine jacket, [ED: 1], NONFICTION SOUTHEAST ASIA HISTORY GOVERNMENT POLITICAL SOCIAL CULTURAL|Non-Fiction, History, New Haven and London, [PU: Yale University Press]<

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