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James Scott -Nature and Space
Research MethodsWednesday, 2/1/12
Seeing Like a State
● Forestry● Measure● Citizenship● Map-making● Social science
Scientific Forestry
What does "fiscalforestry" mean, and howdoes it view the forest?(pages 11-12) What is lost in this view? (pages 12-13) What did scientific forestry attempt?
What were its results?
Weights and Measures
What examples of local (or "popular") measures does Scott provide? (pages 25-27) What does he mean by "the politics of measurement"? (page 27-29)
What about measures being "sticky"? What allowed for the triumph of the metric measure?
Weights and Measures
What examples of local (or "popular") measures does Scott provide? (pages 25-27) What does he mean by "the politics of measurement"? (page 27-29)
What about measures being "sticky"? What allowed for the triumph of the metric measure?
market exchange, Enlightenment, Napoleon
Measures and Citizenship?
Scott argues that those who promoted the metric measure "understood that what was at stake was not merely administrative convenience but
also the transformation of a people . . . .The abstract grid of equal citizenship would create a new reality: the French citizen" (page 32). What is he arguing here?
Land and Maps
Why was the state opposed to communal land tenure? (page 39) What does the example of Russian land reform show us? (pages 39-44) What brought about the proper map? (page 45)
How Does the Social Scientist See?
Are there links between the historical conditions that Scott looks at and the origins of sociology and anthropology? What systems are our social scientific measures rooted in? Does it matter? What about the citizen and social science?
