James Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3296-0375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1879 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Turning Point That Didn't Turn: WTO MC14 and the Future of Global Trade
The fourteenth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC14) in Yaoundé was widely framed as a pivotal moment for restoring momentum to a multilateral trading system in crisis. Drawing on participant observation and interviews conducted during the conference, this article argues that MC14 exposed both the limits of the WTO's current negotiating framework and the deeper geopolitical tensions reshaping global trade governance. Member…
A Retrospective Inquiry into the Impact of Covid-19 on Students’ Study Abroad Program
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced COVID-19 as a global pandemic. Millions of students in school, on educational breaks, and study abroad programs were left uncertain of their next steps. This study aimed to examine the impact of COVID-19 on college-aged students’ study abroad experiences in the United Kingdom. Four students participated in interviews, asking them about their study abroad. Thematic and poetic analysis were…
Gender Discrimination in Global Clothing Tariffs
There is increasing recognition of women suffering a ‘pink tax’, paying higher prices for (near) identical products than those marketed to men. One potential cause of this is governments charging different import tariffs on men's and women's clothing, facilitated by the fact that the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System ( HS ) splits all apparel by gender. This article examines four questions: why are the HS codes disaggregated by g…
The use of templates in China’s and the United States’ free trade agreements: A Text-Based Analysis
The cultural foundations of trade policy: Competitive free trade and the UK–Australia free trade agreement
This article examines United Kingdom (UK) parliamentary debates on the adoption of its first post-Brexit, from-scratch free trade agreement (FTA), with Australia. Building on Jessop’s cultural political economy framework, we identify and analyse the economic imaginaries animating UK post-Brexit trade policy debates at this time. We find that an imaginary of what we term ‘competitive free trade’ shaped the UK Government’s approach to the UK–Austra…
Peripheral voices: Women in international trade scholarship
We ask how women are faring in the field of international trade both as knowledge producers and as policy-makers, with a focus on the former. This is an important question in light of the increased, if belated, attention paid to the gendered impact of international trade rules and of the gendered nature of academia. Using article publishing as a proxy for international trade scholarship, we create a unique dataset consisting of trade-related arti…
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. He argues that centrally managed social plans derail when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not -- and cannot be -- fully understood. Further the success of designs for social organization depends on the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important…
Reglobalizing trade: Progressive global governance in an age of uncertainty
In this article we explore what a programme of ‘reglobalization’ could look like for the governance of global trade. Our focus is on the centrepiece of the current commercial order, the World Trade Organization (WTO). Our aim is to illustrate the potential value of a reformulated WTO not just for commercial relations globally but also for other areas of social concern. We seek to be both practical and challenging. We seek to be practical by estab…
Adventures in Zambian Politics: A Story in Black and White
The global burden of disease attributable to alcohol and drug use in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
BACKGROUND: Alcohol and drug use can have negative consequences on the health, economy, productivity, and social aspects of communities. We aimed to use data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 to calculate global and regional estimates of the prevalence of alcohol, amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine, and opioid dependence, and to estimate global disease burden attributable to alcohol and drug use between 1…
Power, knowledge and resistance: Between co-optation and revolution in global trade
It has been recognised that the process of multilateral trade negotiations has been fundamentally altered by the increased involvement of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) since the Uruguay Round. NGOs have helped to increase the voice of the developing world, nullify some of the asymmetries in political power vis-à-vis the rich world, and provide trade analysis to bolster participation. What is less recognised is the growing importance of ce…
The geography of the political party: Lessons from the British Labour Party's experiment with community organising, 2010 to 2015
This paper highlights the geographical contributions made to academic debate about democracy, representation and the role of the political party. It argues that while geographers have made important arguments in relation to the structure and operation of representative democracy, there is scope for paying greater attention to the internal spatial dynamics of the political party. A successful political party requires a balance between the national…
The future of agricultural trade governance in the World Trade Organization
Constructing multilateral rules to govern trade in agricultural goods has been notoriously difficult. What success there has been relied on linking liberalization in agriculture to broader deals involving multiple sectors through the principle of the single undertaking, but the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Nairobi ministerial conference of 2015 has abandoned that principle, shifting the multilateral trade system onto a new trajectory. Using t…
Addressing the burden of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders: Key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition
The International Politics of South-South Trade
South-South trade has become a core component of the contemporary trade debate, but the idea of using preferential trade agreements among developing countries to foster industrialization and diminish dependence on the North has a long history. This article examines the North-South and South-South politics surrounding two efforts to operationalize this idea—the Protocol Relating to Trade Negotiations Among Developing Countries in the General Agree…
Developing ‘process pragmatism’ to underpin engaged research in human geography
This paper explores the contribution that pragmatist philosophy can make to the way that we do research and teaching in human geography. It provides a historical overview of the key ideas in the tradition, their influence on the Chicago School of Sociology and community organizing, and the implications of this work for epistemological practice. The paper then looks at the variety of ways in which human geographers are using research as a means to…
Expert Knowledge in Global Trade
Households’ responses to spousal job loss: All Change’ or ‘Carry on as Usual
Economic theory suggests that when a primary earner within a couple loses their job, one potential response is for the secondary earner to seek additional paid work to bolster their household finances. The empirical quantitative evidence regarding any such ‘added worker effect’ is mixed, and, to investigate why this might be, the article explores processes behind couples’ responses to job loss. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews conducted…
Objects and the Representation of War in Military Museums
This paper reflects upon the ability of a military museum to create diverserepresentations of war, through the use and interpretation of its objects. In this type of museum, war can be presented as being both a positive or negative phenomenon. For many people, a visit to a military history museum is the one of the main ways that a person will learn about war, aside from its portrayal in education, the media or in film and television. These museum…
Multicultural Relations On Campus: A Personal Growth Approach
Emergency Care and the Public's Health
The Role of Southern Intellectuals in Contemporary Trade Governance
This paper identifies the emergence of a new set of trade intellectuals from the global South, primarily from the rising powers. It argues that this group of 'Southern trade intellectuals' has formed a loose epistemic community, and traces the impact the group is having on global trade governance. The subject examined differs from most other uses of the epistemic community framework in that it analyses a case in which there is no objective, scien…
The wto in Bali: What mc 9 means for the Doha Development Agenda and why it matters
The conclusion of the World Trade Organization’s (wto) ninth ministerial meeting – held in Bali 3–7 December 2013 – is at one and the same time momentous, marginal and business-as-usual. It is momentous because it marks the first multilateral agreement reached in the wto since the organisation began operations on 1 January 1995; it is marginal because the deal reached will have only a limited impact on the global trading system; and it is busines…
Symbolic Power in the World Trade Organization
Selected conceptual issues in border studies
The paper is based on first results of the EUBORDERSCAPES project supported by the 7th European Framework Programme and revisits a number of major themes and concepts that have been important for the development of border studies in recent years. It also investigates emerging research perspectives that appear to be important drivers of conceptual change from the perspective of human geography. The authors stress that the present state of debate i…
Hegemony and the Peasantry
Developing ‘process pragmatism’ to underpin engaged research in human geography
This paper explores the contribution that pragmatist philosophy can make to the way that we do research and teaching in human geography. It provides a historical overview of the key ideas in the tradition, their influence on the Chicago School of Sociology and community organizing, and the implications of this work for epistemological practice. The paper then looks at the variety of ways in which human geographers are using research as a means to…
Households’ responses to spousal job loss: All Change’ or ‘Carry on as Usual
Economic theory suggests that when a primary earner within a couple loses their job, one potential response is for the secondary earner to seek additional paid work to bolster their household finances. The empirical quantitative evidence regarding any such ‘added worker effect’ is mixed, and, to investigate why this might be, the article explores processes behind couples’ responses to job loss. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews conducted…
Beyond the BRICs: Alternative Strategies of Influence in the Global Politics of Development
The Aid for Trade Charade
Aid for Trade (AfT) has gained prominence as an innovative form of donor support in the ‘post’-Washington Consensus. AfT mechanisms have been praised as a means of aligning trade liberalisation deals (whether in the Doha Round or within bilaterals) to poverty reduction objectives. This article, through critical analysis of AfT discourse within the ‘moral economies’ of multilateral World Trade Organization and bilateral European Union–African, Car…
Power, knowledge and resistance: Between co-optation and revolution in global trade
It has been recognised that the process of multilateral trade negotiations has been fundamentally altered by the increased involvement of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) since the Uruguay Round. NGOs have helped to increase the voice of the developing world, nullify some of the asymmetries in political power vis-à-vis the rich world, and provide trade analysis to bolster participation. What is less recognised is the growing importance of ce…
The wto in Bali: What mc 9 means for the Doha Development Agenda and why it matters
The conclusion of the World Trade Organization’s (wto) ninth ministerial meeting – held in Bali 3–7 December 2013 – is at one and the same time momentous, marginal and business-as-usual. It is momentous because it marks the first multilateral agreement reached in the wto since the organisation began operations on 1 January 1995; it is marginal because the deal reached will have only a limited impact on the global trading system; and it is busines…
The Political Economy of the MDGs: Retrospect and Prospect for the World's Biggest Promise
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were endorsed unanimously by all 189 UN member states and emerged as one of the central pillars of the global fight against poverty. However, the changes the MDGs brought about have been mixed at best. Though there are some notable successes, the MDGs have failed to bring about a substantial shift towards tackling global poverty and have had only a weak impact on the World Bank and International Monetary Fu…
Computing in Qualitative Sociology: Guest column
The geography of the political party: Lessons from the British Labour Party's experiment with community organising, 2010 to 2015
This paper highlights the geographical contributions made to academic debate about democracy, representation and the role of the political party. It argues that while geographers have made important arguments in relation to the structure and operation of representative democracy, there is scope for paying greater attention to the internal spatial dynamics of the political party. A successful political party requires a balance between the national…
Objects and the Representation of War in Military Museums
This paper reflects upon the ability of a military museum to create diverserepresentations of war, through the use and interpretation of its objects. In this type of museum, war can be presented as being both a positive or negative phenomenon. For many people, a visit to a military history museum is the one of the main ways that a person will learn about war, aside from its portrayal in education, the media or in film and television. These museum…
The Role of Southern Intellectuals in Contemporary Trade Governance
This paper identifies the emergence of a new set of trade intellectuals from the global South, primarily from the rising powers. It argues that this group of 'Southern trade intellectuals' has formed a loose epistemic community, and traces the impact the group is having on global trade governance. The subject examined differs from most other uses of the epistemic community framework in that it analyses a case in which there is no objective, scien…
Affirmative action and selected minority groups in law enforcement
Exploitation in Rural Class Relations: A Victim's Perspective
James Scott's "Exploitation in Rural Class Relations: A Victim's Perspective" (1975) examines how the concept of exploitation is understood and experienced by the exploited themselves, specifically within the context of rural class relations. Challenging conventional Marxist approaches that focus on quantifiable economic surplus extraction, Scott argues for a more nuanced understanding that incorporates the subjective perceptions and moral judgme…
Cross-border Governance in the Baltic Sea Region
(2002). Cross-border Governance in the Baltic Sea Region. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 135-153
Beyond trip s: Why the wto ‘s Doha Round is unhealthy
The current round of World Trade Organization (wto) negotiations—the Doha Round—has significant implications for global health which have received insufficient attention from the global health community. All too often the health implications of global trade agreements are examined only after their conclusion, and are concerned only with intellectual property rights. This paper seeks to move beyond this narrow focus and elucidate the wider health …
The Politics of Survival: Peasant Response to ‘Progress’ in Southeast Asia
the chief social basis of radicalism has been the peasant and the smaller artisan J i n the towns. From the facts, one may conclude that the wellsprings of human freedom lie not only where Marx saw them, in the aspirations of classes about to take power, but perhaps even more in the dying wail of a class over whom the wave of progress is about to roll. The Southeast Asian peasantry has historically sought, as best it could, to secure its economic…
Reglobalizing trade: Progressive global governance in an age of uncertainty
In this article we explore what a programme of ‘reglobalization’ could look like for the governance of global trade. Our focus is on the centrepiece of the current commercial order, the World Trade Organization (WTO). Our aim is to illustrate the potential value of a reformulated WTO not just for commercial relations globally but also for other areas of social concern. We seek to be both practical and challenging. We seek to be practical by estab…
The Poverty of the Doha Round and the Least Developed Countries
Two distinct literatures have emerged on the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda (DDA) and its likely benefits for developing countries. One is built on the use of computable general and partial equilibrium simulations, while another explores the political economy of the negotiation process to explore the opportunities a concluded round will bring for developing countries. Both literatures generate important insights into the DDA, …
What Happened to Doha in Geneva: Re-engineering the WTO's Image While Missing Key Opportunities
The Sonoma Water Evaluation Trial: A Randomized Drinking Water Intervention Trial to Reduce Gastrointestinal Illness in Older Adults
Objectives. We estimated the relative rate of highly credible gastrointestinal illness (HCGI) per year associated with active versus sham household water filtration devices among older adults in a community receiving tap water meeting current US standards. Methods. We conducted a randomized, triple-blinded, crossover trial in 714 households (988 individuals), which used active and sham water filtration devices for 6 months each. We estimated the …
The future of agricultural trade governance in the World Trade Organization
Constructing multilateral rules to govern trade in agricultural goods has been notoriously difficult. What success there has been relied on linking liberalization in agriculture to broader deals involving multiple sectors through the principle of the single undertaking, but the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Nairobi ministerial conference of 2015 has abandoned that principle, shifting the multilateral trade system onto a new trajectory. Using t…
Symbolic Power in the World Trade Organization
Celts and saxons
Projections of the Population of the Communist Countries of Eastern Europe by Age and Sex: 1965-1985
The forum
Report From Black America
The Politics of Survival: Peasant Response to ‘Progress’ in Southeast Asia
the chief social basis of radicalism has been the peasant and the smaller artisan J i n the towns. From the facts, one may conclude that the wellsprings of human freedom lie not only where Marx saw them, in the aspirations of classes about to take power, but perhaps even more in the dying wail of a class over whom the wave of progress is about to roll. The Southeast Asian peasantry has historically sought, as best it could, to secure its economic…
Exploitation in Rural Class Relations: A Victim's Perspective
James Scott's "Exploitation in Rural Class Relations: A Victim's Perspective" (1975) examines how the concept of exploitation is understood and experienced by the exploited themselves, specifically within the context of rural class relations. Challenging conventional Marxist approaches that focus on quantifiable economic surplus extraction, Scott argues for a more nuanced understanding that incorporates the subjective perceptions and moral judgme…
Essays in Creativity
Hegemony and the Peasantry
Brown and Bakke: The Relation between Judicial Decisions and Socioeconomic Conditions
ITUDENTS OF the sociology of law have long maintained that an understanding of the law in action requires recognition of the complex relationships between law as a form of social control and other aspects of social structure.' While law functions on one level to reconcile differences among competing interests in society, its form and content are influenced, on another, by social demands made on the legal system by various interest groups. The pre…
Three Malay Villages
The School Sociologist: A Need and An Emergent Profession
Slavery, Bondage and Dependency in Southeast Asia: A Review
in 1980, we now have a quite remarkable collection of evidence and argument on the history of slavery and other forms of bondage in Southeast Asia.The collection is ambitious in its scope, moving as it does from Burma to Batavia, from Malaya to Luzon, from thirteenth century Angkor to nineteenth century Sulawesi, from straightforward chattel slavery to clientelism, and from legal texts to the analysis of trade routes and social organization.The p…
Computing in Qualitative Sociology: Guest column
Quiet Riots: Race and Poverty in the United States
Streetwise: Race, Class, and Social Change in an Urban Community
Award Recipients
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Scottish business in Europe
Europe has altered fundamentally in both shape and nature following the momentous political events of recent years. Within the European Corr munity itself, the Single Market Programme has driven closer integration, whde the Maastricht Treaty has set the EC on course for political cohesion and monetary co-operation on a vasdy ambitious scale. The formal association of the EFTA countries with the Community has led to a European Economic Area stretc…
Affirmative action and selected minority groups in law enforcement
Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions
Restoration: Old Testament, Jewish and Christian Perspectives
Cross-border Governance in the Baltic Sea Region
(2002). Cross-border Governance in the Baltic Sea Region. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 135-153
On Earth as in Heaven: The Restoration of Sacred Time and Sacred Space in the Book of Jubilees
Integrating Emerging Infections Education into Medical Education: An Innovative Approach
Most participants felt that outbreak preparedness was not adequately addressed in their curricula and almost all wanted more instruction. In addition, the didactic course and workshop improved self-reported student knowledge of the basic principles of contagious disease outbreak detection and management. Based on the results of our study, we propose integration of a three-hour simulation-based workshop with other instructional endeavors in emergi…
The Sonoma Water Evaluation Trial: A Randomized Drinking Water Intervention Trial to Reduce Gastrointestinal Illness in Older Adults
Objectives. We estimated the relative rate of highly credible gastrointestinal illness (HCGI) per year associated with active versus sham household water filtration devices among older adults in a community receiving tap water meeting current US standards. Methods. We conducted a randomized, triple-blinded, crossover trial in 714 households (988 individuals), which used active and sham water filtration devices for 6 months each. We estimated the …
The Political Economy of the MDGs: Retrospect and Prospect for the World's Biggest Promise
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were endorsed unanimously by all 189 UN member states and emerged as one of the central pillars of the global fight against poverty. However, the changes the MDGs brought about have been mixed at best. Though there are some notable successes, the MDGs have failed to bring about a substantial shift towards tackling global poverty and have had only a weak impact on the World Bank and International Monetary Fu…
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