An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James Scott Hills Valleys and States An Introduction to Zomia A World of Peripheries The Last Enclosure Creating Subjects The Great Mountain Kingdom or ID: 283709
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The Art of Not Being Governed
An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James ScottSlide2
Hills, Valleys, and States: An Introduction to
Zomia
A World of Peripheries
The Last EnclosureCreating SubjectsThe Great Mountain Kingdom; or Zomia, The Marches of Mainland Southeast AsiaZones of RefugeThe Symbiotic History of Hills and ValleysTowards an Anarchist History of Mainland Southeast AsiaThe Elementary Units of Political OrderSlide3
State Space: Zones of Governance and Appropriation
Mapping State Space
Influence of god-kingsSlide4
Concentrating Manpower and Grain: Slavery and Irrigated Rice
The State as Centripetal Population Machine
The Shaping of State Landscapes and State Subjects
Eradicating Illegible AgricultureE Pluribus Unum: The Creole CenterTechniques of Population ControlSlaveryFiscal LegibilityState Space as Self-LiquidatingSlide5
Civilization and the Unruly
Valley States, Highland Peoples: Dark Twins
The Economic Need for Barbarians
The Invention of BarbariansThe Domestication of Borrowed Finery: All the Way DownThe Civilizing MissionCivilization as RuleLeaving the State, going over to the BarbariansSlide6
Keeping the State at a Distance: The Peopling of the Hills
Other Regions of Refuge
The Peopling of
Zomia: the Long MarchThe Ubiquity and Causes of FlightTaxes and Corvee LaborWar and RebellionRaiding and SlavingRebels and Schismatics to the HillsCrowding, Health, and the Ecology of State SpaceAgainst the Grain
The Friction of Distance: States and Culture
Mini-
Zomias
, Dry and Wet
Going over to the Barbarians
Autonomy as Identity, State-Evading PeoplesSlide7
State Evasion, State Prevention: The Culture and Agriculture of Escape
An Extreme Case: Karen “Hiding Villages”
Location, Location, Location, and Mobility
Escape AgricultureNew World PerspectivesShifting Agriculture as “Escape-Agriculture”Crop Choice as Escape AgricultureSoutheast Asian Swiddening as EscapeSoutheast Asian Escape CropsMaizeCassava/Manioc/Yucca
Social Structure of Escape
“
Tribality
”
Evading
Stateness
and Permanent Hierarchy
In the Shadow of the State, in the Shadow of the HillsSlide8
Orality
, Writing, and Texts
Oral Histories and Writing
The Narrowness of Literacy and Some Precedents for Its LossOn the Disadvantages of Writing and the Advantages of OralityThe Advantages of Not Having a HistorySlide9
Ethnogenesis
: A Radical Constructionist Case
The Incoherence of Tribe and Ethnicity
State Making as a Cosmopolitan IngatheringValleys FlattenIdentities : Porosity, Plurality, FluxRadical Constructionism: The Tribe Is Dead, Long Live the TribeTribe-MakingGenealogical Face SavingPositionalityEgalitarianism: The Prevention of StatesSlide10
Prophets of Renewal
A Vocation for Prophecy and Rebellion: Hmong, Karen, and
Lahu
HmongKarenLahuTheodicy of the Marginal and DispossessedProphets are a Dime a Dozen“Sooner or Later…”High-Altitude ProphetismDialogue, Mimicry, and Connections
Turning on a Dime: The Ultimate Escape Social Structure
Cosmologies of Ethnic Collaboration
Christianity: A Resource for Distance and ModernitySlide11
Conclusion
State Evasion, State Prevention: Global-Local
Gradients of Secession and Adaptation
Civilization and Its MalcontentsSlide12
Book Reviews
Brad C. Davis - Eastern Washington State University -
http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2010/07/05/review-of-art-of-not-being-governned-tlcnmrev-viii/
Mandy Sadan - School of Oriental and African Studies - http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/903Tom Palmer - Atlas Foundation http://reason.com/archives/2010/05/25/life-on-the-edgeVictor Lieberman - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7807296Debate - http://asu.academia.edu/HjorleifurJonsson/Papers/506301/States_lie_and_stories_are_tools_Following_up_on_ZomiaSlide13
Research Program
Do the achievements of the High Civilizations justify previous bias in their favor?
Do these civilizations propose solutions to the violence of more egalitarian societies?
Do the High Civilizations contain dangers within their constructs of order that result in catastrophic outcomes that bring into question their solutions to the problems of egalitarian societies?How do High Civilizations navigate a path around the dangers of massive violence associated with their accumulation of power.