James Scott: The Art of Not Being Governed

The author of several books including Seeing Like a State, Professor Scott s research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations and anarchism. We talk with Professor Scott about his newest book, The Art of Not Being Governed. It is the firstever examination of the volumes of literature on statemaking that evaluates why people would deliberately remain stateless. James Scott, is Sterling Professor of Political Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University br, br,