James Scott Knihy

Applaus dem Anarchismus ist kein Manifest, es ist das lebhafte, oft amüsante Plädoyer für eine anarchistische Sicht auf die Welt. Der renommierte Politologe und Anthropologe James C. Scott hat – nach mehreren theoretischen Schriften zum Thema – für sein neues Buch bewusst eine andere Form gewählt: Engagiert erzählt er Beispiele und Anekdoten aus dem sozialen und politischen Alltag und der Geschichte von Massenprotesten und Revolutionen, die den gesunden Menschenverstand, das Urteilsvermögen und die Kreativität der Leute feiern. Scotts Beispiele sind so überzeugend, dass sie uns herausfordern, den Wert von Hierarchien im öffentlichen und privaten Leben radikal in Frage zu stellen – von der Schule über den Arbeitsplatz bis hin zum Altersheim – und uns in eine Reihe zu stellen mit den Renitenten, den Aufmüpfigen, die sich gegen „verordneten Unsinn“ mit konstruktiver Anarchie zur Wehr zu setzen.

V zimě roku 1897 se porodní bába Elspeth Howellová vrací domů na odlehlou farmu. Místo přivítání však nachází brutálně zavražděného manžela a své čtyři děti. Jediným přeživším je dvanáctiletý Caleb, který kromě rodné farmy nic jiného nezná. Matka a syn se rozhodnou rodinu pomstít a vydají se zamrzlou divočinou po stopách vrahů do městečka u jezera Erie. Zatímco Caleb odhaluje děsivou pravdu o své rodině, Elspeth musí čelit dávným tajemstvím.

These machines, from smart phones to talking robots to self-driving cars, are remaking the world in the twenty first century in the same way that the Industrial Revolution remade the world in the nineteenth.

An examination and discussion of the public and the hidden discourses (transcripts) of those who wield power and of those who feign deference to it. Examples are drawn from literature, history and politics to illustrate the many guises the interaction of such discourses can take.

Weapons of the Weak is an ethnography by James C. Scott that studies the effects of the Green Revolution in rural Malaysia. One of the main objectives of the study is to make an argument that the Marxian and Gramscian ideas of false consciousness and hegemony are incorrect. He develops this conclusion throughout the book, through the different scenarios and characters that come up during his time of fieldwork in the village. This publication, based on 2 years of fieldwork (1978-1980), focuses on the local class relations in a small rice farming community of 70 households in the main paddy-growing area of Kedah in Malaysia. Introduction of the Green Revolution in 1976 eliminated 2/3 of the wage-earning opportunities for smallholders and landless laborers. The main ensuing class struggle is analyzed being the ideological struggle in the village and the practice of resistance itself consisting of: foot-dragging, dissimulation, desertion, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance and sabotage acts. Rich and poor are engaged in an unremitting if silent struggle to define changes in land tenure, mechanization and employment to advance their own interests, and to use values that they share to control the distribution of status, land, work and grain.

"One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades."--John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. "Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit."--New Yorker "A tour de force."-- Charles Tilly, Columbia University

Offering a completely new perspective on the anthropology of the highlands of Southeast Asia, James Scott proposes that far from being remnant populations, the peoples who inhabit the mountain chain between Vietnam and India are the descendants of runaways from lowland state-mking initiatives.

When twelve-year-old Robbie Young comes home and tells his mother "Jerry Houseman's been touching me" the lives of both families fly out of control. Scott Campbell's first novel is a sometime shocking but always the insightful and moving story of a sexual relationship between a young boy and an older man. Told from the points of view of the man, his wife, the boy and his mother, Touched is never sensationalistic or sentimental. Campbell knows how to tell a story, and his innate empathy with all of his characters shines through on every page. Touched might disturb the reader, not because of its subject matter, but because Campbell understands the human heart and its desires all too well.

An Economist Best History Book 2017 "History as it should be written."--Barry Cunliffe, Guardian "Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civilization and political order."--Walter Scheidel, Financial Times Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family--all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and 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 nonsubject peoples.

"'Scott is a master of mood' New York Times Book Review b> b>How far would you go for your family, for love, for revenge? In the winter of 1897, a trio of killers descends upon an isolated farm in upstate New York. b> lspeth Howell returns home to find her family brutally murdered. The only survivor is her twelve-year-old son who witnessed it all. Wounded, frightened and with retribution in their hearts, mother and son set out into the frozen wilderness to track down the red-scarfed men who killed their loved ones in cold blood. Their journey leads them to a rough-hewn settlement on the edge of ice-filled Lake Erie, a merciless place where violence abounds. Here, forced into a brutal adulthood, Caleb begins to discover truths about his mother he could never have anticipated and Elspeth must finally confront the terrible urges that envelop her. All the while, the memory of Caleb's brothers and sisters presses him onwards. Big skies, deep snow, open wounds: The Kept delves deep into what it means to be a mother and to be a son. It asks us how far we would go for our family, for love and, ultimately, for revenge?"

The narrative follows a young couple in a small Mississippi town as they establish their family, which flourishes and expands across the country. It captures the essence of the Page-Paige family's legacy, emphasizing the importance of heritage and identity. The story is crafted to connect future generations with their roots, ensuring that they understand their origins and the journey of their ancestors.

Im Himalaya-Winter, ohne Nahrung oder Unterkunft, wird nicht erwartet, dass ein Mensch länger als eine Woche überlebt. James Scott hielt 43 Tage durch. Er überlebte Kälte, Hunger, Isolation und Verzweiflung und klammerte sich an die schwindende Hoffnung, dass ein Suchteam ihn finden könnte oder dass er kriechen könnte, wenn der Schnee schmolz. Er hätte niemals lebend aus den Bergen herauskommen sollen. Dies ist die unglaubliche Geschichte seines Überlebens, wie er seine Gedanken fokussierte, um die Hoffnung bis zu seiner Rettung aufrechtzuerhalten. Es ist auch die Geschichte eines anderen Kampfes, des Suchens, das von seiner Schwester Joanne Robertson am Leben gehalten wurde. Sie kämpfte gegen Unglauben und die Schwierigkeiten, mit Regierungsbeamten in einem fremden Land zu arbeiten, und weigerte sich, die Hoffnung aufzugeben, indem sie systematisch jede Möglichkeit ausschloss – lange nachdem jeder erwartet hatte, nicht mehr als James' Leiche zu finden. Lost in the Himalayas ist eine Geschichte über Hoffnung, Ausdauer, Überleben und den menschlichen Geist.

Kinder gibt es hier nicht mehr. Im Himmalaja verschollen. Der Schrei der Möwe. Elefanten - mein Leben