Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

By R. Mason. The Information Society, 2000

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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Community Driven Development, Collective Action and Elite Capture in Indonesia (2007, background): “Community driven development is part of a broader paradigm shift responding to the well-documented critiques of top-down, modernist and authoritarian approaches that have dominated development over the last fifty years (Escobar, 1995; Holston, 1989; Kabeer, 1994; Mitchell, 2002; Scott, 1998).”
The (im)possibility of development studies (2007, background): “17 For a discussion of high modernist versions of development, see Scott (1998).”
The Militarisation and Marketisation of Nature: An Alternative Lens to ‘Climate-Conflict’ (2014, background): “Scott reveals how forests began to be defined within the utilitarian logic that transformed nature into ‘natural resources’ in order to manage and secure state revenue and development.(31) This advanced significantly with scientific management of forests developed in Germany, spreading through the r”
The digital revolution in financial inclusion: international development in the fintech era (2017, background): “In other words, rather than seeking to reorganise people and things spatially in order to render societies ‘legible’ (cf. Scott 1998), data generated via mobile technologies provide the means to ‘administratively re-order’ populations in new ways, based on the ‘moving target’ of behavioural data as…”
‘Measurementality’ in Biodiversity Governance: Knowledge, Transparency, and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Ipbes) (2014, background): “It involves the exercise of power in the sense that rendering an object of interest measurable or legible (Scott, 1998) involves critical choices about what to measure and how.”
Dynamic Systems and the Challenge of Sustainability (2007, background): “Such perspectives overlap with the idea of the 'learning organisation' (Senge 1990, Argyris and Schön, 1978) and with critiques of 'stable' states (Schön, 1973) committed to technically-driven, blueprint-based modernist development (Scott 1998).”