The Art of Not Being Governed
Subtitle: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
By: James C. Scott
Edition: 1st edition
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven, USA; London, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780300152289
Copyright date: 2009
Other titles: Zomia ou l’art de ne pas être gouverné
Description: James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of “internal colonialism.” This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states.

Scott’s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.

(Source: [Yale University Press](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300169171/art-not-being-governed))
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: 1.
title: Hills, Valleys, and States: An Introduction to Zomia
pagenum: 1; label: 2.
title: State Space: Zones of Governance and Appropriation
pagenum: 40; label: 3.
title: Concentrating Manpower and Grain: Slavery and Irrigated Rice
pagenum: 64; label: 4.
title: Civilization and the Unruly
pagenum: 98; label: 5.
title: Keeping the State at a Distance: The Peopling of the Hills
pagenum: 127; label: 6.
title: State Evasion, State Prevention: The Culture and Agriculture of Escape
pagenum: 178; label: 6½.
title: Orality, Writing, and Texts
pagenum: 220; label: 7.
title: Ethnogenesis: A Radical Constructionist Case
pagenum: 238; label: 8.
title: Prophets of Renewal
pagenum: 283; label: 9.
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 324; title: Notes
pagenum: 339; title: Glossary
pagenum: 407; title: Index
pagenum: 415