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EDITORIAL NOTE On James Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed

EDITORIAL NOTE On James Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed The tendency of physicists is to judge the theory and praxis of other natural sciences to be inexact and unexacting in comparison with their own, and mathematical physicists appear to regard their experimentalist colleagues as basically engineers. Natural scientists, in general, tend to include the social sciences with the humanities under the rubric of "fuzzy studies." Meanwhile, within each of the social sciences there are struggles in progress between those who make the case for qualitative work and those who find any nonquantitatively based methodology fuzzy. The present suite of reviews was arranged in response to manifestations of anarchism arising globally, but also in acknowledgment that scholars in the humanities have paid inadequate attention to the unruly though strenuous efforts, over the past dozen years, toward humanization of the social sciences. James C. Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009) is an "anarchist history" in the sense that it tells a story about anarchism in "Zomia" (fig. 1), but also in the sense that the various norms its author breaks while telling the story make his book seem, to most orthodox political scientists, almost http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

EDITORIAL NOTE On James Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed

Common Knowledge , Volume 18 (3) – Sep 21, 2012

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The tendency of physicists is to judge the theory and praxis of other natural sciences to be inexact and unexacting in comparison with their own, and mathematical physicists appear to regard their experimentalist colleagues as basically engineers. Natural scientists, in general, tend to include the social sciences with the humanities under the rubric of "fuzzy studies." Meanwhile, within each of the social sciences there are struggles in progress between those who make the case for qualitative work and those who find any nonquantitatively based methodology fuzzy. The present suite of reviews was arranged in response to manifestations of anarchism arising globally, but also in acknowledgment that scholars in the humanities have paid inadequate attention to the unruly though strenuous efforts, over the past dozen years, toward humanization of the social sciences. James C. Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009) is an "anarchist history" in the sense that it tells a story about anarchism in "Zomia" (fig. 1), but also in the sense that the various norms its author breaks while telling the story make his book seem, to most orthodox political scientists, almost

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Published: Sep 21, 2012

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