Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11095033 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Levine (0000-0002-5116-238X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 464 |
| Publication date | 1999-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C Scott, 2017 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2655340 |
| OpenAlex | W2795388554 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
Algorithm · Epistemology · Human condition · State (computer science · Computer Science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Philosophy
Architecture and Politics in Africa
Crisis and Communitas
Politik in der digitalen Gesellschaft
Meto Disputes and Peacemaking
Food and Globalization
Agency, contingency and census process
Power, Culture, Economy
A economia imaginada do capitalismo agrário
Trading Sand, Undermining Lives
The "Life" of the State
Appetite for Imprecision
Racializing Resilience
The Enigma of the Asian Elephant
Particulate Matters
Public Actors Without Public Values
Ten challenges for computer models in transitions research
The urban geographical imagination in the age of Big Data
Data citizenship
The object of mobile spatial data, the subject in mobile spatial research
Virtual, visible, and actionable
A science that knows no country
We called that a behavior
Ausencia y presencia estatal como forma de reproducción de la violencia urbana en el distrito de Aguablanca (Cali, Colombia)
O Censo é a Infraestrutura Informacional do País
A New Development Technology? South Asian Biometrics and the Promise of State Security and Economic Opportunity
New cities in China
Housing First' and the Changing Terrains of Homeless Governance
Making up families
Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics
Transitioning toward "deep" knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems
Elegant conservation
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems
The Political Economy of Cross-Scale Networks in Resource Co-Management
One-Eyed State
Implications and Challenges for the Energy Sector in Brazil and Mexico to Meet the Carbon Emission Reductions Committed in Their INDC during the COP 21-CMP11
Reporting on Europe’s Migration ‘Crisis’ for BBC Radio 4
Timorese seascapes
Indigenous Religion, Christianity and the State
Snow Leopards, Checkpoints, and Roads
Estamos sobre la misma montaña? Por una apertura ontológica de la conservación de los páramos
Workers by any other name
Migration management, capacity building and the sovereignty of an African State
More than software vendors. The peculiar case of Palantir’s data integration platforms
The work that visualisation conventions do
Mission Bogotá
Soldiers and Wayward Women
L'autoroute est-ouest, c'est pas le progrès
Elite recruitment and state-society relations in technocratic authoritarian regimes
The evolving techniques of the social engineering of extraction
Blinded like a state? Urban sanitation, improvement and high modernism in contemporary Myanmar
A forest of dreams
Hybrid territorialisation
Forest crisis narratives
The global visa cost divide
Infrastructural territorialisations
State building, nation making and post-colonial hydropolitics in India and Israel
Interventions on the state of sovereignty at the border
Fragmenting forest governance
Information sovereignty and GIS
All Counterinsurgency is Local
Trust Land
Changing Politics for a Changing Climate
Statistical Imaginaries, State Legitimacy
Trusting by Numbers
Disability policies, transnationalism and policy diffusion
Mother Nature Had Been Digitalized’
Striking the empire back
Rationality and Institutional Contingency
Une histoire politique des chiffres de la prison
The Green Masterplan
Feeling like a State
Informality as the Ur-Form of Urbanity
Corruption as Infrastructure
Titling as a Contested Process
Uncertainty and the Governance of Street Vending
An Ethnographic Perspective on Urban Planning in Brazil
Measurementality' in Biodiversity Governance
Energy landscapes in Mozambique
Political Ecologies of Electronic Waste
The Politics of Community-Based Conservation in Natural Resource Management
Mundane is the New Radical
The Racial Spectacular
Integrating Social Science and Design Inquiry Through Interdisciplinary Design Charrettes
The Afterlives of International Development Interventions
Frontier engineering
Vanishing the Haida
Technopolitics, development and the residues of the South African state
Introduction to the digital welfare state
L'informalité urbaine aux marges de la connaissance. Statistiques, cartographie et politiques des bidonvilles à Madrid
Ethnicity, State Capacity, and Development
China in Africa
Notes on Transliterations and References
Preface
Materializing Communication
Body, Capital, and Screens
The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Body, Capital and Screens
Simians, Savages, Skulls, and Sex
Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the Limits of Recognition in Indonesia’s Forest Zone.
Urbanizing the Countryside
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |