Lecture: James Scott

James Scott, the Sterling Professor of Political Science, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University, presents "Some Histories of State Evasion in Southeast Asia and Elsewhere."

He is the author of "Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance," and "Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed."