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Wir spüren es, sobald der Weg schmaler wird.
In den Bergen verändert sich nicht nur die Landschaft, sondern auch das Verhältnis zur Ordnung, die uns sonst regiert. Macht braucht Übersicht. Sie funktioniert nur dort, wo Menschen, Räume und Praktiken lesbar sind: Parzellen, Register, Normen, Infrastrukturen, Verwaltung.
Die Berge widersetzen sich dieser Ordnung durch ihre Form. Sie falten sich, brechen Linien, machen Planung teuer und Kontrolle unsicher. Hochlandregionen waren über Jahrhunderte Räume relativer Autonomie - nicht aus Ideologie, sondern weil staatliche Durchdringung hier an Grenzen stieß.
Freiheit ist dort oben keine abstrakte Idee, sondern Alltagspraxis: Selbstorganisation, gegenseitige Abhängigkeit, lokale Verantwortung. Keine Freiheit von Regeln, sondern eine Freiheit für Urteil, Aushandlung und geteilte Verantwortung.
Wir gehen nicht in die Berge, um dem Politischen zu entkommen. Wir gehen hin, um zu sehen, dass es überall ist - auch dort, wo es leise ist.
https://www.ferals.eu/die-dritte-dimension
#Hiking #PoliticalGeography #Autonomie #Mountains #Commons #JamesScott #Anarchie #Wandern #Berge
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How are the dozen Buddies out on loan faring? https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/354289/ #ChallengeCup #DumbartonAndClydebank #EvanMooney #Football #JamesScott #LeagueTwo #loan #NewOrleans #NewOrleansSaints #NewOrleans #NewOrleansSaints #NFL #OisinSmyth #saints #SeniorFootball #StMirren #TheSaints
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How are the dozen Buddies out on loan faring? https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/354289/ #ChallengeCup #DumbartonAndClydebank #EvanMooney #Football #JamesScott #LeagueTwo #loan #NewOrleans #NewOrleansSaints #NewOrleans #NewOrleansSaints #NFL #OisinSmyth #saints #SeniorFootball #StMirren #TheSaints
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“As the political scientist #JamesScott has argued, states need standardized and legible #information to write good rules and to make good decisions. The original meaning of the word ‘ #statistics’ is ‘information about the state’.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...
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“As the political scientist #JamesScott has argued, states need standardized and legible #information to write good rules and to make good decisions. The original meaning of the word ‘ #statistics’ is ‘information about the state’.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...
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A les conclusions #JamesScott qualifica les grans planificacions, del que anomena #AltModernisme, com a #tragedies. Per un cantó els planificadors actuen com a #deus i pequen de #supérbia, per altre cercaven, genuïnament la millora de les condicions de #vida d'aquelles #persones a les quals condemnaren a grans patiments i a la #mort per culpa dels seus errors. A cada #ubris la seva #nemesis
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A les conclusions #JamesScott qualifica les grans planificacions, del que anomena #AltModernisme, com a #tragedies. Per un cantó els planificadors actuen com a #deus i pequen de #supérbia, per altre cercaven, genuïnament la millora de les condicions de #vida d'aquelles #persones a les quals condemnaren a grans patiments i a la #mort per culpa dels seus errors. A cada #ubris la seva #nemesis
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Lecture
L'oeil de l'Etat, moderniser, uniformiser, détruire James C. Scott
Voila une excellente idée de cadeau de Noël si vous avez quelques membres de votre famille qui croient encore en la chance inouïe que nous avons de vivre dans cette civilisation haut-moderniste.
Pourtant pas très récent, le bouquin arrachera (comme une dent pourrie) les derniers doutes sur la bienveillance de l'Etat et de ses corrolaires (grandes entreprises, églises, casernes...) et sur leur capacité à ameliorer les conditions de vie entendues au sens large c'est à dire des vivants.
Pour tous, un ... -
Lecture
L'oeil de l'Etat, moderniser, uniformiser, détruire James C. Scott
Voila une excellente idée de cadeau de Noël si vous avez quelques membres de votre famille qui croient encore en la chance inouïe que nous avons de vivre dans cette civilisation haut-moderniste.
Pourtant pas très récent, le bouquin arrachera (comme une dent pourrie) les derniers doutes sur la bienveillance de l'Etat et de ses corrolaires (grandes entreprises, églises, casernes...) et sur leur capacité à ameliorer les conditions de vie entendues au sens large c'est à dire des vivants.
Pour tous, un ... -
Lecture
L'oeil de l'Etat, moderniser, uniformiser, détruire James C. Scott
Voila une excellente idée de cadeau de Noël si vous avez quelques membres de votre famille qui croient encore en la chance inouïe que nous avons de vivre dans cette civilisation haut-moderniste.
Pourtant pas très récent, le bouquin arrachera (comme une dent pourrie) les derniers doutes sur la bienveillance de l'Etat et de ses corrolaires (grandes entreprises, églises, casernes...) et sur leur capacité à ameliorer les conditions de vie entendues au sens large c'est à dire des vivants.
Pour tous, un ... -
Lecture
L'oeil de l'Etat, moderniser, uniformiser, détruire James C. Scott
Voila une excellente idée de cadeau de Noël si vous avez quelques membres de votre famille qui croient encore en la chance inouïe que nous avons de vivre dans cette civilisation haut-moderniste.
Pourtant pas très récent, le bouquin arrachera (comme une dent pourrie) les derniers doutes sur la bienveillance de l'Etat et de ses corrolaires (grandes entreprises, églises, casernes...) et sur leur capacité à ameliorer les conditions de vie entendues au sens large c'est à dire des vivants.
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Anecdote or lived experience: reimagining knowledge for climate-resilient health systems
A health worker in rural Kenya notices that malaria cases are appearing earlier in the season than usual.
A nurse in Bangladesh observes that certain neighborhoods are experiencing more heat-related illnesses despite similar temperatures.
These observations often remain trapped in the realm of “anecdotal evidence.”
The dominant epistemological framework in public health traditionally dismisses such knowledge as unreliable, subjective, and of limited scientific value.
This dismissal stems from a deeply-rooted global health paradigm that privileges quantitative data, randomized controlled trials, and statistical significance over the nuanced, contextual understanding that emerges from direct experience.
The phrase “it’s just anecdotal” has become a subtle but powerful way of delegitimizing knowledge that does not conform to established scientific methodologies.
Yet this epistemological stance creates a significant blind spot in our understanding of how climate change affects health at the community level.
Climate change manifests in complex, locally specific ways that often elude traditional epidemiological surveillance systems.
The health worker who notices shifting disease patterns or the community nurse who identifies vulnerable populations possesses what philosopher Donald Schön termed “knowing-in-action” – a form of knowledge that emerges from sustained engagement with complex, dynamic situations.
Experiential knowledge often precedes formal scientific understanding, particularly in the context of climate change where impacts are emerging and evolving rapidly.
Health workers’ observations are not mere anecdotes but rather early warning signals of climate-health relationships that would take years to document through traditional research methods.
Why would we build early warning systems that ignore the significance or value of health worker observations and insights?
Is the risk of error greater than the risk of inaction?
In late 2023, more than 1 million people were displaced by flooding from intense rainfall in parts of Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia, attributed to a combination of climate change and the Indian Ocean Dipole, a natural climate phenomenon.
Are there signals that health workers might be attuned to, alongside weather systems to measure them?
The challenge, then, is not to replace scientific methodologies but to develop new epistemological frameworks that can integrate different forms of knowing.
This requires recognizing that knowledge exists on a spectrum rather than in hierarchical tiers.
Experiential knowledge, systematic observation, statistical analysis, and randomized controlled trials each offer different and complementary insights into complex climate-health relationships.
A new epistemological framework would recognize that the health worker who notices changing disease patterns is engaging in what anthropologist James Scott calls “mētis” – a form of practical knowledge that comes from intimate familiarity with local conditions.
Is this knowledge necessarily less valuable than statistical data or no data?
It is different and often provides crucial context that helps interpret quantitative findings.
Let us imagine how this integration might work in practice.
In the Philippines, a climate-health surveillance system could combine traditional epidemiological data with structured documentation of health workers’ observations.
Health workers would use a mobile app to share unusual patterns or emerging concerns with each other.
This could then be analyzed alongside conventional surveillance data.
Such an approach could identify climate-health relationships that are not visible through standard surveillance alone.
Health workers can also form “knowledge circles” in which they regularly meet to share observations and insights about climate-related health impacts.
These observations can then be systematically documented and analyzed, creating a bridge between experiential knowledge and formal evidence bases.
When patterns emerge across multiple knowledge circles, they trigger more formal investigation.
This shift requires rethinking how we validate knowledge.
Instead of asking whether an observation is “merely anecdotal,” we might ask: What does this observation tell us about local conditions? How does it complement our quantitative data? What patterns emerge when we more systematically collect and analyze experiential knowledge?
The implications of this epistemological shift extend beyond climate change.
By recognizing the value of experiential knowledge, health systems will become more adaptive and responsive to emerging challenges.
Health workers, feeling their knowledge is valued, become more engaged in systematic observation and documentation.
Communities, seeing their experiences reflected in health system responses, develop greater trust in health institutions.
However, this shift faces significant challenges.
Academic institutions, funding bodies, and policy makers often remain wedded to traditional hierarchies of evidence.
Publishing systems privilege certain types of knowledge over others.
Career advancement often depends on producing conventional scientific evidence rather than integrating different forms of knowing.
Overcoming these challenges requires institutional change.
Medical and public health education needs to incorporate training in recognizing and documenting experiential knowledge.
Research methodologies need to expand to include systematic ways of collecting and analyzing practical knowledge.
Funding mechanisms need to support projects that bridge different epistemological approaches.
The climate crisis demands this evolution in how we think about knowledge.
As health systems face unprecedented challenges, we cannot afford to ignore any source of understanding about how climate change affects human health.
The health worker’s observation, the community’s experience, and the statistician’s analysis all have crucial roles to play in building climate-resilient health systems.
This is not about replacing scientific rigor but about expanding our understanding of what constitutes valid knowledge.
By creating frameworks that can integrate different forms of knowing, we strengthen our ability to respond effectively to the complex challenges posed by climate change.
The future of climate-resilient health systems depends not just on what we know, but on how we think about knowing itself.
References
Haines, A., Kimani-Murage, E.W., Gopfert, A., 2024. Strengthening primary health care in a changing climate. The Lancet 404, 1620–1622. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)02193-7
Jones, I., Mbuh, C., Sadki, R., Eller, K., Rhoda, D., 2023. On the frontline of climate change and health: A health worker eyewitness report. The Geneva Learning Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10204660
Jones, I., Mbuh, C., Sadki, R., Steed, I., 2024. Climate change and health: Health workers on climate, community, and the urgent need for action. The Geneva Learning Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.11194918
Romanello, M., et al. The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action. The Lancet 404, 1847–1896. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01822-1
Schön, D.A., 1995. Knowing-in-action: The new scholarship requires a new epistemology. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 27, 27–34.
Scott, J.C., 2020. Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. ed, Yale agrarian studies. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT London.
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#anecdotes #climateAndHealth #climateChange #DonaldSchön #epidemiology #epistemology #JamesScott #knowingInAction #livedExperience #mētis #peerLearning
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Anecdote or lived experience: reimagining knowledge for climate-resilient health systems
A health worker in rural Kenya notices that malaria cases are appearing earlier in the season than usual.
A nurse in Bangladesh observes that certain neighborhoods are experiencing more heat-related illnesses despite similar temperatures.
These observations often remain trapped in the realm of “anecdotal evidence.”
The dominant epistemological framework in public health traditionally dismisses such knowledge as unreliable, subjective, and of limited scientific value.
This dismissal stems from a deeply-rooted global health paradigm that privileges quantitative data, randomized controlled trials, and statistical significance over the nuanced, contextual understanding that emerges from direct experience.
The phrase “it’s just anecdotal” has become a subtle but powerful way of delegitimizing knowledge that does not conform to established scientific methodologies.
Yet this epistemological stance creates a significant blind spot in our understanding of how climate change affects health at the community level.
Climate change manifests in complex, locally specific ways that often elude traditional epidemiological surveillance systems.
The health worker who notices shifting disease patterns or the community nurse who identifies vulnerable populations possesses what philosopher Donald Schön termed “knowing-in-action” – a form of knowledge that emerges from sustained engagement with complex, dynamic situations.
Experiential knowledge often precedes formal scientific understanding, particularly in the context of climate change where impacts are emerging and evolving rapidly.
Health workers’ observations are not mere anecdotes but rather early warning signals of climate-health relationships that would take years to document through traditional research methods.
Why would we build early warning systems that ignore the significance or value of health worker observations and insights?
Is the risk of error greater than the risk of inaction?
In late 2023, more than 1 million people were displaced by flooding from intense rainfall in parts of Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia, attributed to a combination of climate change and the Indian Ocean Dipole, a natural climate phenomenon.
Are there signals that health workers might be attuned to, alongside weather systems to measure them?
The challenge, then, is not to replace scientific methodologies but to develop new epistemological frameworks that can integrate different forms of knowing.
This requires recognizing that knowledge exists on a spectrum rather than in hierarchical tiers.
Experiential knowledge, systematic observation, statistical analysis, and randomized controlled trials each offer different and complementary insights into complex climate-health relationships.
A new epistemological framework would recognize that the health worker who notices changing disease patterns is engaging in what anthropologist James Scott calls “mētis” – a form of practical knowledge that comes from intimate familiarity with local conditions.
Is this knowledge necessarily less valuable than statistical data or no data?
It is different and often provides crucial context that helps interpret quantitative findings.
Let us imagine how this integration might work in practice.
In the Philippines, a climate-health surveillance system could combine traditional epidemiological data with structured documentation of health workers’ observations.
Health workers would use a mobile app to share unusual patterns or emerging concerns with each other.
This could then be analyzed alongside conventional surveillance data.
Such an approach could identify climate-health relationships that are not visible through standard surveillance alone.
Health workers can also form “knowledge circles” in which they regularly meet to share observations and insights about climate-related health impacts.
These observations can then be systematically documented and analyzed, creating a bridge between experiential knowledge and formal evidence bases.
When patterns emerge across multiple knowledge circles, they trigger more formal investigation.
This shift requires rethinking how we validate knowledge.
Instead of asking whether an observation is “merely anecdotal,” we might ask: What does this observation tell us about local conditions? How does it complement our quantitative data? What patterns emerge when we more systematically collect and analyze experiential knowledge?
The implications of this epistemological shift extend beyond climate change.
By recognizing the value of experiential knowledge, health systems will become more adaptive and responsive to emerging challenges.
Health workers, feeling their knowledge is valued, become more engaged in systematic observation and documentation.
Communities, seeing their experiences reflected in health system responses, develop greater trust in health institutions.
However, this shift faces significant challenges.
Academic institutions, funding bodies, and policy makers often remain wedded to traditional hierarchies of evidence.
Publishing systems privilege certain types of knowledge over others.
Career advancement often depends on producing conventional scientific evidence rather than integrating different forms of knowing.
Overcoming these challenges requires institutional change.
Medical and public health education needs to incorporate training in recognizing and documenting experiential knowledge.
Research methodologies need to expand to include systematic ways of collecting and analyzing practical knowledge.
Funding mechanisms need to support projects that bridge different epistemological approaches.
The climate crisis demands this evolution in how we think about knowledge.
As health systems face unprecedented challenges, we cannot afford to ignore any source of understanding about how climate change affects human health.
The health worker’s observation, the community’s experience, and the statistician’s analysis all have crucial roles to play in building climate-resilient health systems.
This is not about replacing scientific rigor but about expanding our understanding of what constitutes valid knowledge.
By creating frameworks that can integrate different forms of knowing, we strengthen our ability to respond effectively to the complex challenges posed by climate change.
The future of climate-resilient health systems depends not just on what we know, but on how we think about knowing itself.
References
Haines, A., Kimani-Murage, E.W., Gopfert, A., 2024. Strengthening primary health care in a changing climate. The Lancet 404, 1620–1622. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)02193-7
Jones, I., Mbuh, C., Sadki, R., Eller, K., Rhoda, D., 2023. On the frontline of climate change and health: A health worker eyewitness report. The Geneva Learning Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10204660
Jones, I., Mbuh, C., Sadki, R., Steed, I., 2024. Climate change and health: Health workers on climate, community, and the urgent need for action. The Geneva Learning Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.11194918
Romanello, M., et al. The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action. The Lancet 404, 1847–1896. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01822-1
Schön, D.A., 1995. Knowing-in-action: The new scholarship requires a new epistemology. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 27, 27–34.
Scott, J.C., 2020. Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. ed, Yale agrarian studies. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT London.
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#anecdotes #climateAndHealth #climateChange #DonaldSchön #epidemiology #epistemology #JamesScott #knowingInAction #livedExperience #mētis #peerLearning
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The estimable Henry Farrell on James Scott and technology…
The political scientist James Scott died last week. I only knew him through email – an occasional and irregular correspondence, mostly involving unsuccessful attempts to organize discussion at political science conferences around his work. As he suggested in a biographical essay, “Intellectual Diary of an Iconoclast,” which just came out a few months ago, he was semi-detached from his academic discipline.
I’ve wandered away from political science, though I could argue that political science has wandered away from me. I am honored even to be seen as a specialist, and probably as much to be embraced by anthropology and history.
The world was better for his iconoclasm. Scott wrote far more beautifully than political scientists are supposed to write and his ideas and work were too big to fit into any discipline. Although arguments were largely rooted in the past, his book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, has shaped how we think about technology.
Seeing Like a State is important because of how it sets up the problem of modernity. Scott was a critic of the vast impersonal systems – bureaucracies and markets – that modern society depends on. He believed that they prioritized the kind of thinking that comes easily to engineers over the kind that comes readily to peasants and craftsmen, and that we had lost something very important as a result.
In Scott’s account, both governments and long distance markets “see” the world through abstractions – technical standards, systems of categories and the like. A government cannot see its people directly, or what they are doing. What it can see are things like statistics measuring population, the number of people who are employed or unemployed, the percentages of citizens who work in this sector or that, and the like. These measures – in numbers, charts and categories – allow it to set policy.
Such knowledge grants its users enormous power to shape society – but often without the detailed, intimate understanding that would allow them to shape it well. There is a lot of social reality that is described poorly, or not at all, by categories or statistics. Even so, as governments and markets established their power, they not only saw the world in highly limited ways but shaped it so that it conformed better to their purblind understanding, ironing out the idiosyncrasies and apparent inefficiencies that got in the way of their vast projects. The state did not just ‘see’ its society through bureaucratic categories, but tried to remake this society so that it fit better with the government’s preconceptions.
So too for the abstractions and general categories that long distance markets depend on, as the historian William Cronon observed in his great book on nineteenth century Chicago, Nature’s Metropolis (Scott was a fan). As another scholar observed of Chicago’s late twentieth century markets, abstract seeming financial conceptions may be engines, not cameras, making the economy rather than merely reflecting them.
This abstraction of the world’s tangled complexities into simplified categories and standards underpinned vast state projects, and supported enormous gains in market efficiency. We could not live what we now consider to be acceptable lives without it, as Scott somewhat grudgingly acknowledged. It also often precipitated disaster, including Soviet collectivization and China’s Great Famine.
So what does this have to do with modern information technology? Quite straightforwardly: if you read Scott, you will see marked similarities between e.g. the ambitions of 1960s bureaucrats, convinced that they can plan out countries and cities for “abstract citizens” and the visions of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, convinced that algorithms and objective functions would create a more efficient and more harmonious world.
Scott focuses on officials in developing countries, who were starry-eyed about “planning.” Many of their notions came second-hand from the most striking example of high modernism, the effort of Soviet bureaucrats to use production statistics and linear programming to make the planned economy work. This provides the most obvious connection between what Scott talks about and the algorithmic ambitions of Silicon Valley today. A distinct whiff of “Comrades, Let’s Optimize!” lingers on, for example, in the airy optimism of Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth’s infamous “We connect people. Period” memo.
Both the old ambitions and the new are bets on the universal power of a particular kind of engineering knowledge – what Scott calls techne, the kind of knowledge that can “be expressed precisely and comprehensively in the form of hard-and-fast rules (not rules of thumb), principles, and propositions.” Scott describes the limits of techne in ways that resonate today. The grand failed projects of the mid-to-late twentieth century – vast rationalized cities like Brasilia laid out according to plans that seemed almost to be the squares of a chessboard; efforts to displace peasants and plan agriculture at scale – are close cousins to Facebook’s failed ambitions to build a world of shared connections on algorithmic foundations, and the resulting social media Brezhnevism of today.
Hence, 20th century state planning and 21st century social media evangelism are different flavors of what Scott called “high modernism … a sweeping, rational engineering of all aspects of social life in order to improve the human condition.” High modernism was both a faith and a practice. It turned rich and diffuse social relations into something much thinner, which could be measured and observed.
Against this kind of knowledge, Scott suggested the value of metis – “the kind of knowledge that can be acquired only by long practice at similar but rarely identical tasks, which requires constant adaptation to changing circumstances.” This is the kind of tacit knowledge that peasants come to build about their land and the weather, or that people in less regimented societies accumulate about how to live with others in tolerable peace. Scott – an anarchist – greatly preferred this latter kind of knowledge, and the societies that valued it more, to the kind of world we live in today.
Scott provides intellectual ammunition for those who want to understand what Silicon Valley has in common with past grand efforts to improve the human condition. It’s a fountain of useful comparisons…
[Farrell reviews elaborations on and critiques of Scott’s thought…]
… All this suggests that you could reframe my criticisms of Scott in more positive ways. His contribution is not to provide a systematic framework for getting ourselves out of the hole we have dug ourselves into, but to plant some of the seeds for a different intellectual ecology, in which others will take up his thoughts, use them to argue, also arguing with them and arguing with each other, and hence discover aspects of the world that they would never have seen otherwise. That would be as fine a legacy as any thinker could want…
Eminently worth reading in full: “High Modernism made our world,” from @mastodon.social@henryfarrell in his wonderful newsletter Programmable Mutter.
See also: “The Art of Pretending to Govern,” from @vgr.
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As we see like a state, we might we might recall that it was on this date in 1776 that the Declaration of Independence was actually signed (by all of the signatories except Matthew Thornton from New Hampshire, who inked it on November 4, 1776). After the Continental Congress voted to declare independence on July 2, the final language of the document was approved on July 4– to wit our celebration of the date– and it was printed and distributed on July 4–5.
John Trumbull’s depiction of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Capitol Rotunda#bureaucracy #culture #DeclarationOfIndependence #governance #government #history #JamesScott #politicalScience #SeeingLikeAState #society #Technology
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@cbeunas Merci pour cette présentation et ces recommendations ; je ne le connaissais pas :blobcatheart:
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@cbeunas Merci pour cette présentation et ces recommendations ; je ne le connaissais pas :blobcatheart:
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@cbeunas Merci pour cette présentation et ces recommendations ; je ne le connaissais pas :blobcatheart:
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@cbeunas Merci pour cette présentation et ces recommendations ; je ne le connaissais pas :blobcatheart:
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don't forget the alt text). #20books20days 6/20
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#GRK0015 #Anthropologie #Acratie #JamesSCOTT
L’œil de l’État
Moderniser, uniformiser, détruire
James C. Scott (2021, La Découverte)
iBouquin:https://mega.nz/file/MYAD3TqL#Kto0oS3lrzBCT7HaUZfzhWE0hd0JxVZYL2rwd_4PEAY
Si t'as les moyens:
https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/l_oeil_de_l_etat-9782348057359Présentation:
Pourquoi, malgré des intentions parfois sincères et orientées vers le bien-être de leurs populations, les États modernes les ont-ils si souvent malmenées, voire meurtries ? Pourquoi, malgré les moyens colossaux mis en œuvre, les grands projets de développement ont-ils si tragiquement échoué et ravagé l’environnement ? Dans cette recherche foisonnante, James Scott démonte les logiques bureaucratiques et scientifiques au fondement de ces projets « haut-modernistes », poussant à toujours plus de lisibilité et de contrôle sur la nature et les sociétés humaines.
À partir d’une large palette d’études de cas allant de la foresterie scientifique à la création des premiers recensements et des noms propres, de la doctrine révolutionnaire de Lénine à celle de Le Corbusier en matière d’urbanisme, et de la collectivisation de l’agriculture soviétique aux politiques de villagisation en Tanzanie et ailleurs, Scott dénonce ces entreprises de planification autoritaire qui finissent par appauvrir et étouffer le monde physique et social.
En appuyant leur pouvoir sur des formes de classification, de standardisation et d’abstraction, ces projets tendent tous à négliger les mécanismes et les processus informels d’ajustement pourtant essentiels à la préservation d’ordres sociaux viables. Ils échouent aussi car ils marginalisent les savoirs locaux de celles et ceux qu’ils ciblent. À l’encontre de ces approches autoritaires centralisées et surplombantes, Scott défend le rôle de formes de savoirs plus modestes, étroitement liées à l’expérience pratique et davantage capables d’adaptation au gré des circonstances.==========
James C. Scott (1936-2024)
est un professeur américain de sciences politiques et d'anthropologie à l'université Yale, spécialiste de l'Asie du Sud-Est. Politiste anarchiste, James C. Scott est un critique et continuateur de Pierre Clastres, Foucault, Bourdieu, Lukes, etc.. Il a été une figure du mouvement Pérestroïka en sciences politiques.Les travaux de James C. Scott portent principalement sur la résistance des personnes en situation de subalternité : il a longuement documenté la vie des paysans en Malaisie5 et a développé le concept de résistance infrapolitique6. Il propose dans ses ouvrages une relecture critique du concept d'hégémonie7 et une distinction entre le « discours officiel » et le « discours caché » des paysans, qui peut être très critique dans la sphère privée. Cette distinction a des répercussions sur les théories du pouvoir.
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#GRK0015 #Anthropologie #Acratie #JamesSCOTT
L’œil de l’État
Moderniser, uniformiser, détruire
James C. Scott (2021, La Découverte)
iBouquin:https://mega.nz/file/MYAD3TqL#Kto0oS3lrzBCT7HaUZfzhWE0hd0JxVZYL2rwd_4PEAY
Si t'as les moyens:
https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/l_oeil_de_l_etat-9782348057359Présentation:
Pourquoi, malgré des intentions parfois sincères et orientées vers le bien-être de leurs populations, les États modernes les ont-ils si souvent malmenées, voire meurtries ? Pourquoi, malgré les moyens colossaux mis en œuvre, les grands projets de développement ont-ils si tragiquement échoué et ravagé l’environnement ? Dans cette recherche foisonnante, James Scott démonte les logiques bureaucratiques et scientifiques au fondement de ces projets « haut-modernistes », poussant à toujours plus de lisibilité et de contrôle sur la nature et les sociétés humaines.
À partir d’une large palette d’études de cas allant de la foresterie scientifique à la création des premiers recensements et des noms propres, de la doctrine révolutionnaire de Lénine à celle de Le Corbusier en matière d’urbanisme, et de la collectivisation de l’agriculture soviétique aux politiques de villagisation en Tanzanie et ailleurs, Scott dénonce ces entreprises de planification autoritaire qui finissent par appauvrir et étouffer le monde physique et social.
En appuyant leur pouvoir sur des formes de classification, de standardisation et d’abstraction, ces projets tendent tous à négliger les mécanismes et les processus informels d’ajustement pourtant essentiels à la préservation d’ordres sociaux viables. Ils échouent aussi car ils marginalisent les savoirs locaux de celles et ceux qu’ils ciblent. À l’encontre de ces approches autoritaires centralisées et surplombantes, Scott défend le rôle de formes de savoirs plus modestes, étroitement liées à l’expérience pratique et davantage capables d’adaptation au gré des circonstances.==========
James C. Scott (1936-2024)
est un professeur américain de sciences politiques et d'anthropologie à l'université Yale, spécialiste de l'Asie du Sud-Est. Politiste anarchiste, James C. Scott est un critique et continuateur de Pierre Clastres, Foucault, Bourdieu, Lukes, etc.. Il a été une figure du mouvement Pérestroïka en sciences politiques.Les travaux de James C. Scott portent principalement sur la résistance des personnes en situation de subalternité : il a longuement documenté la vie des paysans en Malaisie5 et a développé le concept de résistance infrapolitique6. Il propose dans ses ouvrages une relecture critique du concept d'hégémonie7 et une distinction entre le « discours officiel » et le « discours caché » des paysans, qui peut être très critique dans la sphère privée. Cette distinction a des répercussions sur les théories du pouvoir.
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PETIT ELOGE DE L'ANARCHISME
James Scott (2019, LUX)
iBouquin:https://mega.nz/file/wRgylbDa#MqDxBLcqgJw4Ne8yhpgYuhQ_LzsijI4PaVAD1_-nL2s
Si t'as les moyens:
https://luxediteur.com/catalogue/petit-eloge-de-lanarchisme-2/Description:
Loin d’être un manifeste dogmatique, ce Petit éloge de l’anarchisme célèbre la faculté d’exercer son jugement moral et sa créativité en toute liberté.À partir d’exemples tirés de la vie quotidienne et de l’histoire, James C. Scott analyse les notions d’autonomie, de dignité, de justice et de résistance. S’en dégage un plaidoyer pour l’insubordination sous toutes ses formes et dans toutes les circonstances – au travail, dans la rue, à l’université et dans les maisons de retraite.
Manuel d’exercices de l’esprit pour voir et agir dans le monde comme un anarchiste, ce livre s’adresse avant tout à ceux qui ne se considèrent pas comme tel. À sa lecture, ils apprendront sans doute qu’ils partagent plusieurs des valeurs défendues par ces « dangereux extrémistes de gauche ». Les libertaires, quant à eux, y redécouvriront l’origine de certaines de leurs convictions.
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#GRK0014 #Anarchisme #Acratie #JamesSCOTT
PETIT ELOGE DE L'ANARCHISME
James Scott (2019, LUX)
iBouquin:https://mega.nz/file/wRgylbDa#MqDxBLcqgJw4Ne8yhpgYuhQ_LzsijI4PaVAD1_-nL2s
Si t'as les moyens:
https://luxediteur.com/catalogue/petit-eloge-de-lanarchisme-2/Description:
Loin d’être un manifeste dogmatique, ce Petit éloge de l’anarchisme célèbre la faculté d’exercer son jugement moral et sa créativité en toute liberté.À partir d’exemples tirés de la vie quotidienne et de l’histoire, James C. Scott analyse les notions d’autonomie, de dignité, de justice et de résistance. S’en dégage un plaidoyer pour l’insubordination sous toutes ses formes et dans toutes les circonstances – au travail, dans la rue, à l’université et dans les maisons de retraite.
Manuel d’exercices de l’esprit pour voir et agir dans le monde comme un anarchiste, ce livre s’adresse avant tout à ceux qui ne se considèrent pas comme tel. À sa lecture, ils apprendront sans doute qu’ils partagent plusieurs des valeurs défendues par ces « dangereux extrémistes de gauche ». Les libertaires, quant à eux, y redécouvriront l’origine de certaines de leurs convictions.
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#GRK0014 #Anarchisme #Acratie #JamesSCOTT
PETIT ELOGE DE L'ANARCHISME
James Scott (2019, LUX)
iBouquin:https://mega.nz/file/wRgylbDa#MqDxBLcqgJw4Ne8yhpgYuhQ_LzsijI4PaVAD1_-nL2s
Si t'as les moyens:
https://luxediteur.com/catalogue/petit-eloge-de-lanarchisme-2/Description:
Loin d’être un manifeste dogmatique, ce Petit éloge de l’anarchisme célèbre la faculté d’exercer son jugement moral et sa créativité en toute liberté.À partir d’exemples tirés de la vie quotidienne et de l’histoire, James C. Scott analyse les notions d’autonomie, de dignité, de justice et de résistance. S’en dégage un plaidoyer pour l’insubordination sous toutes ses formes et dans toutes les circonstances – au travail, dans la rue, à l’université et dans les maisons de retraite.
Manuel d’exercices de l’esprit pour voir et agir dans le monde comme un anarchiste, ce livre s’adresse avant tout à ceux qui ne se considèrent pas comme tel. À sa lecture, ils apprendront sans doute qu’ils partagent plusieurs des valeurs défendues par ces « dangereux extrémistes de gauche ». Les libertaires, quant à eux, y redécouvriront l’origine de certaines de leurs convictions.
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