James C. Scott and the Art of Resistance
The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards but in acts of quiet disobedience.
By Nikil Saval
New Yorker
April 7, 2025
Some books:
The Moral traditional societies of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia (1976)
Weapons of the Weak (1985)
Domination and the Arts of Resistance (1990)
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)
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play (2012)
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (2017)
In Praise of Floods:The Untamed River and the Life It Brings (2025)
and others …
