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Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed.

Av: Materialtyp: TextSerie: Utgivningsuppgift: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1998Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2008Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (462 pages)Innehållstyp:
  • text
Medietyp:
  • computer
Bärartyp:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300128789
Ämnen: Genre/form: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 338.9
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Innehåll:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification -- Chapter 1. Nature and Space -- Chapter 2 . Cities, People, and Language -- Part 2. Transforming Visions -- Chapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism -- Chapter 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique -- Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis -- Part 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production -- Chapter 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams -- Chapter 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization -- Chapter 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity -- Part 4. The Missing Link -- Chapter 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources for Illustrations -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification -- Chapter 1. Nature and Space -- Chapter 2 . Cities, People, and Language -- Part 2. Transforming Visions -- Chapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism -- Chapter 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique -- Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis -- Part 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production -- Chapter 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams -- Chapter 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization -- Chapter 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity -- Part 4. The Missing Link -- Chapter 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources for Illustrations -- Index.

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