... within disciplines. Few social scientists have been so productive in building bridges between these competing frames as James C. Scott, as evidenced by his celebrated body of work, his election to the presidency of the Association for Asian Studies, and his receipt of meritorious citations...

...Eric Tagliacozzo Abstract It is difficult to expound in any pithy fashion on the imprint that James C. Scott's work has had on writing history in the orbit of Asia. Where to start? From The Moral Economy of the Peasant all the way to Against the Grain , Scott's work has found receptive and fertile...

... who does what and what they do, much like an agency or law. We might trace this pseudo-structural, largely mechanical reading of human agency to political scientists of an earlier era: the behavioralists of the 1950s and 1960s. James C. Scott began his career as just such a scholar. For his...

...Pamela McElwee Abstract This essay advances the argument for James C. Scott as a preeminent political ecologist, despite the fact that he has not claimed such a title for himself. While he is variously described as an (errant) political scientist, an (adopted) anthropologist, and a (most...

...Ronald J. Herring Abstract James C. Scott’s prodigious work has influenced numerous fields of inquiry, often profoundly, as documented in this forum. This essay suggests how an extension of Scott's theoretical apparatus might provide fresh understanding of stalemated contentious politics of great...

...Takeshi Ito Abstract Undeniably, one of the rare characteristics of James C. Scott's scholarship is that his analytical insights are widely recognized in many fields beyond political science and Asian studies. Scott's contributions to the vast literatures of agrarian and environmental studies...

...Ansil Ramsay Abstract Ted Robert Gurr's hypotheses on political violence and James C. Scott's on patron-client relations are used to explain why modernizing policies of the Siamese government provoked rebellions in Chiang Mai in 1889 and in Phrae in 1902. The article suggests that the rebellions...

.... Building on C. K. Yang's classic theories of diffused religion, it demonstrates how grassroots religions are diffused with political activism in Hong Kong as an example of what the political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott refers to as “infrapolitics.” These three iconic deities of diffused...

... is that of a man standing permanently up to the neck in water, so that even a ripple is sufficient to drown him.” 1 With this epigraph, invoking the words of economic historian R. H. Tawney, James C. Scott launched The Moral Economy of the Peasant . His pathbreaking second book describes the social...

... authority in the countryside. This finding is in turn used as a point of departure for raising some larger questions about the model of revolutionary legitimacy postulated by James C. Scott and the moral economists. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 List of References...

...Paul R. Greenough Abstract The author questions the assumptions of an “Asian school of scarcity and risk,” of which James C. Scott is the principal exponent, using Bengali peasant history as a case in point. He argues that it is more likely that the subsistence traditions of Bengal derive from...

..., Leela Gandhi, and Benedict Anderson, each of whom offers a perspective on the history of empire's end, and the rise of revolutionary and nationalist independence movements in Asia. As counterpoint to their insistently particularizing narration of these movements, James C. Scott sketches a deep history...

...James C. Scott Abstract The large-spirited, learned, and sharp-witted organizers and contributors to this collection of essays have come to understand that I have quite mixed feelings about Festschriften and have dodged them for as long as possible. Why? Well, there are two reasons. The first...

...James C. Scott Man, State, and Society in Contemporary Southeast Asia . Edited by Robert O. Tilman . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1969 . xvii, 637 pp. Tables, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $13.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 985...

...James C. Scott Burmese Sit-Tàns 1764–1826: Records of Rural Life and Administration . By Frank N. Trager and William J. Koenig , with the assistance of Y i Y i . Tucson : University of Arizona Press (Association For Asian Studies Monograph 36), 1979 . xvii, 440 pp. Figures, Appendixes...

...James C. Scott Malaysia and Its Neighbors . By J. M. Gullick . New York : Barnes & Noble, Inc. , 1967 . xiii, 194 pp. Tables, Selected Bibliography, Index. $4.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK REVIEWS 681 military. Necessarily, all...

...James C. Scott Peasant Society in a Changing Economy: Comparative Development in Southeast Asia and India . By George Rosen . Urbana, Chicago, and London : University of Illinois Press , 1975 . xiii, 256 pp. Notes, Index. $8.95 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976...

...James C. Scott And yet, the contingencies of history might often require states to move the civilizational goal posts to incorporate those previously beyond the pale. The British official in late nineteenth-century India used the term unpolishability to designate those irredeemably beyond...

...James C. Scott Abstract This paper attempts to explain how, in Southeast Asia, the strong patron-client bonds which joined peasants to local elites tended to break down during the colonial period—particularly in directly-ruled low-land areas. By examining the effects of social differentiation...

...John D. Rogers Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts . By James C. Scott . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 1990 . xx , 251 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 702 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The volume is somewhat...