James C. Scott

Author · 11 books

James C. Scott is an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics. He is a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies, subaltern politics, and anarchism.

Series

Yale Agrarian Studies Series

Series · 30 books

Books

Against the Grain

A Deep History of the Earliest States

2017

Agrarian Studies

Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge

2001

Decoding Subaltern Politics

Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics

2012

Domination and the Arts of Resistance

Hidden Transcripts

1990

In Praise of Floods

The Untamed River and the Life It Brings

2025

Political Ideology In Malaysia

Reality And The Beliefs Of An Elite

1968

Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

1998

The Art of Not Being Governed

An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

2009

The Moral Economy of the Peasant

Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia

1976

Two Cheers for Anarchism

Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play

2012

Weapons of the Weak

Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

1985