What James C. Scott thinks about mental models
Political scientist and anthropologist (1936 to 2024) whose Seeing Like a State (1998) explained how states' schemes to make society legible and planned have failed, by ignoring local, practical knowledge.
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1 dated position, c. 1998, in their own words. Our reading of what James C. Scott has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAny large social process or event will inevitably be far more complex than the schemata we can devise, prospectively or retrospectively, to map it.
↗Seeing Like a State (Yale University Press, 1998)archive.org All 4 from this book