Review: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
User Review - Bryn Hammond - GoodreadsSo. I've always been an anarchist in principle (didn't Merlin say in The Once and Future King, every decent person is?) and I come to this, not with a special interest in upland SE Asia, but after ... Read full review
Review: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
User Review - EH - GoodreadsThis was supposed to be about Zomia, a proposed region running through the mountainous area between India to Vietnam. Scott spends less time discussing that and more time discussing state rejection in ... Read full review
Review: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
User Review - GoodreadsThis was supposed to be about Zomia, a proposed region running through the mountainous area between India to Vietnam. Scott spends less time discussing that and more time discussing state rejection in ...
Review: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
User Review - unperspicacious - GoodreadsVintage Scott...which I guess means highly readable prose, a celebration of the subaltern, and a polemic against the impositions of states. Somewhat provocative, but many of the arguments are not ... Read full review
Review: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
User Review - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsFor two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the ... Read full review
Review: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
User Review - GoodreadsThis is boring. The subject is interesting but the book is repetitive. Too few ideas, too many words.
Review: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
User Review - Dan Allosso - GoodreadsIn The Art of Not Being Governed, Scott continues the story begun in Seeing Like a State, from the perspective of the “runaway, fugitive, maroon communities who have, over the course of two millennia ... Read full review
Review: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
User Review - Liz - Goodreadspretty much exactly what it says on the tin, a history book about how a number of nonstate peoples in upland southeast asia have limited the influence of various configurations of state power on their ... Read full review
Review: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
User Review - Salvatore - GoodreadsA good book that turns colonization on its ear a little. The book could be half as thick. There is a lot of repetition of the same theme throughout. Great examples. Overall, a good read. Read full review
Review: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
User Review - Chris Hamby - GoodreadsReally impressive, well-argued and researched look at the shifting political and ethnic identities in Southeast Asia. I saw this as a more convincing enumeration of Scott's thesis in Seeing Like A ... Read full review
