From Planning to Prototypes
New Ways of Seeing Like a State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9197267 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fleur Johns (0000-0002-8351-7608, Aptiv (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 833-863 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Law Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-7961 • E-ISSN: 1468-2230 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2230.12442 |
| OpenAlex | W2951637585 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
All states have pursued what James C. Scott characterised as modernist projects of legibility and simplification: maps, censuses, national economic plans and related legislative programs. Many, including Scott, have pointed out blindspots embedded in these tools. As such criticism persists, however, the synoptic style of law and development has changed. Governments, NGOs and international agencies now aspire to draw upon immense repositories of digital data. Modes of analysis too have changed. No longer is legibility a precondition for action. Law‐ and policy‐making are being informed by business development methods that prefer prototypes over plans. States and international institutions continue to plan, but also seek insight from the release of minimally viable policy mock‐ups. Familiar critiques of law and development work, and arguments for its reform, have limited purchase on these practices, Scott's included. Effective critical intervention in this field today requires careful attention to be paid to these emergent patterns of practice
Action (physics) · Advertising · Business · Criticism · Field (mathematics) · Intervention (counseling) · Law and economics · Legibility · Legislature · Plan (archaeology) · Political science · Precondition · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science) · Style (visual arts) · Work (physics) · Comparative and International Law Studies · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Human Rights and Development · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Psychology · Public Administration
Learning Like a State
The (non‐)performance of the financial frontier
Objects at Work
Digital Humanitarianism
Governance by Data
Crafting Prefigurative Law in Turbulent Times
Style Management
State Changes
Is This the Rhizome? Thinking Together with Fleur Johns
Tech-based Prototypes in Climate Governance
Down and Dirty in the Field of Play
From Mock-Up to Module
Gov-tech as capture
Expert Ignorance
Prototyping as a Means to Innovate Affordable Housing Policies and Provision
Loops, ladders and links
Seeing, speaking and trawling like an authoritarian state
Critique and the Coloniality of Being
Understanding the role of physical spaces in social de-segregations
Reflexive institutional reform and the politics of the regulatory state of the south
Ordinal citizenship
Seeing Like a State, Enacting Like an Algorithm
Making development legible to capital
The Temporality of Disaster
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |