為何自上而下的政府改良計劃經常失敗以及邊緣群體如何巧妙地削弱權威的研究，使他接受了無政府主義作為一種政治哲學。
“但吉姆的每一本書都很重要，而且每本書都各具特色。這些書名已經成為學術界日常用語的一部分。”
| 詹姆斯·C·斯科特 James C. Scott | |
|---|---|
 斯科特於2016年 | |
| 出生 | 1936年12月2日 美國新澤西州蒙荷里[1] |
| 逝世 | 2024年7月19日（87歲） 美國康乃狄克州杜倫 |
| 母校 | |
| 科學生涯 | |
| 研究領域 | 政治學、人類學 |
| 機構 | |
| 博士生 | Ben Kerkvliet Melissa Nobles Erik Ringmar 達瑞克 |
| 受影響自 | 馬克·布洛克 • 亞歷山大·恰亞諾夫 • John Dunn • 安東尼奧·葛蘭西 • 艾瑞克·霍布斯邦 • 賴特·米爾斯 • 巴林頓·摩爾 • 卡爾·波蘭尼 • 愛德華·帕爾默·湯普森 • 艾瑞克·沃爾夫 • Pierre Clastres • Ranajit Guha |
詹姆斯·坎貝爾·斯科特（英語：James Campbell Scott，1936年12月2日—2024年7月19日）[2]是美國政治學家和人類學家以及比較政治學學者。他的研究領域為農業社會業和非國家社會、屬下階層和無政府主義、東南亞的農民和他們對政府的反抗。[3]
斯科特在威廉士學院獲得學士學位，在耶魯大學獲得政治學碩士和博士學位。他在威斯康星大學麥迪遜分校任教至1976年，隨後在耶魯大學任教，是斯特林政治學教授，等級為斯特靈教席。自1991年起，他負責耶魯大學的農業研究項目。[2]他的居住地位於康乃狄克州的杜倫，他曾經在那裡養過羊[4]。斯科特於2024年過世時，紐約時報描述他為被最多人閱讀其著作的社會科學家之一[5]。Gabriel, Trip. James C. Scott, Iconoclastic Social Scientist, Dies at 87. The New York Times. 2024-07-28 [July 28, 2024]. ISSN 0362-4331. （原始內容存檔於July 28, 2024） （美國英語）. 已忽略未知參數|df= (幫助
著作
斯科特的主要專著有：[6]
- 《農民的道義經濟學：東南亞的反叛與生存》（The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia，1976）
- 《弱者的武器：農民反抗的日常形式》（Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance，1980）
- 《支配與抵抗藝術：潛隱劇本》（Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcript，1985）
- 《國家的視角：那些試圖改善人類狀況的項目是如何失敗的》（Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed，1998）
- 《逃避統治的藝術：東南亞高地的無政府主義歷史》（The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia，2008）
- 《六論自發性：自主、尊嚴，以及有意義的工作和遊戲》（Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work，2013）
- 《反穀：人類早期國家的深層歷史》（Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest Agrarian States，2017）
James Campbell Scott (December 2, 1936 – July 19, 2024) was an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics. He was a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies.
Trained as a political scientist, Scott's scholarship discussed peasant societies, state power, and political resistance. From 1968 to 1985, Scott wrote influentially on agrarian politics in peninsular Malaysia.[1] While he retained a lifelong interest in Southeast Asia and peasantries, his later works ranged across many topics: quiet forms of political resistance, the failures of state-led social transformation, techniques used by non-state societies to avoid state control, commonplace uses of anarchist principles, and the rise of early agricultural states.
Scott received his bachelor's degree from Williams College and his MA and PhD in political science from Yale. He taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1976 and then at Yale, where he was Sterling Professor of Political Science. In 1991, he became director of Yale's Program in Agrarian Studies.[2] At the time of his death, The New York Times described Scott as among the most widely read social scientists.[3]
James C. Scott: An Editor’s Reflections
July 30, 2024
Jean E. Thomson Black— Yale University’s remembrance of James C. Scott beautifully summarizes his life and career. We focus in this reflection on Jim’s 57-year relationship with Yale University Press…READ MORE
Against the Grain
Published in August 2017, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States is an account of new evidence for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture; the advantages of mobile subsistence; the unforeseeable epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain; and why all early states are based on millets, cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the "barbarians" who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and non-subject peoples.[26]
- 2011 (Harvard): James Scott—"Four Domestications: Fire, Plants, Animals, and... Us"
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