Summary of James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The state has always been an enemy of nomads and pastoralists, as it has always sought to sedentarize them and make them legible. The more I examined these efforts at sedentarization, the more I realized that legibility is a fundamental problem in statecraft.
#2 The state has always been an enemy of nomads and pastoralists, as it has sought to sedentarize them and make them legible. The more I examined these efforts at sedentarization, the more I realized that legibility is a fundamental problem in statecraft.
#3 In his book Back to the Soil, AC Grayling describes the history of utopian projects, from the French Revolution to the Spanish Revolution, that tried to reshape the face of society through social engineering. The most tragic episodes of these projects originate in a pernicious combination of four elements: administrative ordering of nature and society, high-modernist ideology, transformative state simplifications, and a high level of administrative corruption.
#4 If you want to change the face of a society, you need to first seize power, then use it to bring about utopian plans. The most fertile soil for this combination is usually found during times of war, revolution, depression, and struggle for national liberation.

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• General
• General officer
• Political Science

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350032444
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The state has always been an enemy of nomads and pastoralists, as it has always sought to sedentarize them and make them legible. The more I examined these efforts at sedentarization, the more I realized that legibility is a fundamental problem in statecraft.

#2

The state has always been an enemy of nomads and pastoralists, as it has sought to sedentarize them and make them legible. The more I examined these efforts at sedentarization, the more I realized that legibility is a fundamental problem in statecraft.

#3

In his book Back to the Soil, AC Grayling describes the history of utopian projects, from the French Revolution to the Spanish Revolution, that tried to reshape the face of society through social engineering. The most tragic episodes of these projects originate in a pernicious combination of four elements: administrative ordering of nature and society, high-modernist ideology, transformative state simplifications, and a high level of administrative corruption.

#4

If you want to change the face of a society, you need to first seize power, then use it to bring about utopian plans. The most fertile soil for this combination is usually found during times of war, revolution, depression, and struggle for national liberation.

#5

If you want to change the face of a society, you must first seize power, then use it to bring about utopian plans. The most fertile soil for this combination is usually found during times of war, revolution, depression, and struggle for national liberation.

#6

-> The state has always been an enemy of nomads and pastoralists, as it has sought to sedentarize them and make them legible. The more I examined these efforts at sedentarization, the more I realized that legibility is a fundamental problem in statecraft.

#7

The state has always been an enemy of nomads and pastoralists, as it has sought to sedentarize them and make them legible. The more I examined these efforts at sedentarization, the more I realized that legibility is a fundamental problem in statecraft.

#8

The state has always been an enemy of nomads and pastoralists, as it has sought to sedentarize them and make them legible. The more I examined these efforts at sedentarization, the more I realized that legibility is a fundamental problem in statecraft.

#9

The state has always been against nomads and pastoralists, as it has sought to sedentarize them and make them legible. The more I examined these efforts at sedentarization, the more I realized that legibility is a fundamental problem in statecraft.

#10

The state always tries to sedentarize nomads and pastoralists because it wants to make them legible. But the state’s narrow view of the world can never understand the real existing forest for the commercial trees.

#11

The state always tries to sedentarize nomads and pastoralists because it wants to make them legible. But the state’s narrow view of the world can never understand the real existing forest for the commercial trees.

#12

The German state’s forest management was a success because it reduced the forest’s diversity to a minimum and because it standardized the trees’ size and age in order to calculate their volume and sellable wood.

#13

The German state’s forest management was a success because it reduced the forest’s diversity to a minimum and because it standardized the trees’ size and age in order to calculate their volume and sellable wood.

#14

The German state’s forest management was a success because it reduced the forest’s diversity to a minimum and because it standardized the trees’ size and age in order to calculate their volume and sellable wood.

#15

The German state’s forest management was a success because it reduced the forest’s diversity to a minimum and because it standardized the trees’ size and age in order to calculate their volume and sellable wood.

#16

Scientific production forestry is a prime example of how the state attempts to sedentarize nomads and pastoralists because it wants to make them legible. But the state’s narrow view of the world can never understand the real existing forest for the commercial trees.

#17

The German state’s forest management was a success because it reduced the forest’s diversity to a minimum and because it standardized the trees’ size and age in order to calculate their volume and sellable wood.

#18

The German state’s forest management was a success because it reduced the forest’s diversity to a minimum and because it standardized the trees’ size and age in order to calculate their volume and sellable wood.

#19

The German state’s forest management was a success because it reduced the forest’s diversity to a minimum and because it standardized the trees’ size and age in order to calculate their volume and sellable wood.

#20

Measurement and land-holding practices can’t be assimilated into state administrative routines without being either transformed or reduced to a convenient, if partly fictional, shorthand.

#21

The German state’s forest management was a success because it reduced the forest’s diversity to a minimum and because it standardized the trees’ size and age in order to calculate their volume and sellable wood.

#22

The German state’s forest management was a success because it reduced the forest’s diversity to a minimum and because it standardized the trees’ size and age in order to calculate their volume and sellable wood.

#23

The German state’s forest management was a success because it reduced the forest’s diversity to a minimum and because it standardized the trees’ size and age in order to calculate their volume and sellable wood.

#24

Measurement in early modern Europe was extremely detailed and often political. While the formal units of measurement might be standard, the actual transaction might favor the lord.

#25

Measurement and land-holding practices can't be assimilated into state administrative routines without being either transformed or reduced to a convenient, if partly fictional, shorthand.

#26

Measurement in early modern Europe was extremely detailed and often political. Because local standards of measurement were tied to practical needs, they reflected particular cropping patterns and agricultural technology.

#27

Scientific forestry's project of standardizing the forest's size and age to calculate its volume and sellable wood was opposed by villagers whose usage rights were being challenged. The power to establish and impose local measures was an important feudal prerogative with material consequences which the aristocracy and clergy would not willingly surrender.

#28

The French Revolution sought to standardize all measurement, which led to the metric system. This was a means of administrative centralization, commercial reform, and cultural progress.

#29

Measurement in early modern Europe was extremely detailed and political. It was used to standardize the trees’ size and age, which were then used to calculate their volume and sellable wood.

#30

The French Revolution sought to standardize all measurement, which led to the metric system. This was a means of administrative centralization, commercial reform, and cultural progress.

#31

It is very difficult to standardize measurement and land-holding practices.

#32

it is very difficult to standardize measurement and land-holding practices, and local customs should not be romanticized, but because they are strong and adaptable, they are a source of microadjustments that lead to shifts in prevailing practice.

#33

Scientific forestry was a means of measuring, cataloging, and standardizing the forest's size and age to calculate its volume and sellable wood. Modern freehold tenure is tenure mediated through the state, and its relative simplicity is lost on those who cannot decipher the state's statutes.

#34

Modern French rural property law is a result of a political compromise between the French rulers and the rural notables.

#35

France’s Napoleonic Code was a political compromise between the French rulers and the rural notables, and it was designed to eliminate the fiscal feudalism that existed under the ancien régime.

#36

The French Revolution sought to standardize land measurement, which led to the metric system. This was a means of administrative centralization, commercial reform, and cultural progress.

#37

Standardizing measurement and land-holding practices is difficult, and local customs should not be romanticized, but they are strong and adaptable, and they lead to microadjustments that lead to shifts in prevailing practice.

#38

When a government seeks to standardize measurement and land-holding practices, it is difficult to standardize and local customs should not be romanticized, but they are strong and adaptable, and they lead to microadjustments that lead to shifts in prevailing practice.

#39

In Russia, the dream of orderly, rectangular fields was only realized on newly settled land, where the surveyor faced little geographical or social resistance. Elsewhere, the reformers were generally thwarted.

#40

The French Revolution sought to standardize land measurement, which led to the metric system. This was a means of administrative centralization, commercial reform, and cultural progress.

#41

Land measurement is difficult and local customs should not be romanticized, but they are strong and adaptable, and they lead to microadjustments that lead to shifts in prevailing practice.

#42

Land measurement is difficult, and local customs should not be romanticized, but they are strong and adaptable, and they lead to microadjustments that lead to shifts in prevailing practic