19./ 20. March 2010:     

Module 'State' in Luzern organised by Prof. Jürg Helbling, Universität Luzern, with James C. Scott, Yale University

The work of James C. Scott has become an important corpus and a major point of reference in political anthropology in late 20th century. In ‚Weapons of the Weak’ (1985) and ‚Domination and the Arts of Resistance. Hidden Transcripts’ (1990) he proposed a novel approach to relations of power and social movements. In ‚Seeing like a State’ (1998) he examined the schemes of authoritarian high modern statecraft and their failure.  In the course of his research in Sotheast Asia and elsewhere James Scott has acquired an impressively subtle understanding of the operation of social forces on both micro and macro levels.

James Scott will present his latest research and comment on contributions of the fellows relating to questions of the state.