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Any large social process is far more complex than the schemes we devise to map it
Drawn from what James C. Scott said
What James C. Scott actually said
- James C. Scott Political scientist and anthropologist (1936 to 2024)…
Any large social process or event will inevitably be far more complex than the schemata we can devise, prospectively or retrospectively, to map it.
Where this was said
↗Seeing Like a State (Yale University Press, 1998)archive.org
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