91直播视频to host political scientist, author James Scott on March 28th
Renowned political scientist and author James Scott will speak on the topic "The Art of Not Being Governed" at 91直播视频's Biddeford Campus on March 28 at 2:30 p.m. in the St. Francis Room of the Jack Ketchum Library.
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Scott is the distinguished Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and is Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University.
The author of several books, such as Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed; The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia; Domination and the Arts of Resistance; and Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Scott is recognized worldwide as an authority on Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies.
His research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations and anarchism. He is currently teaching Agrarian Studies and Rebellion, Resistance and Repression.
Scott is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has held grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science, Science, Technology and Society Program at M.I.T., and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He received his bachelor's degree from Williams College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.
The lecture is sponsored by the 91直播视频Department of Political Science and the Student Club "People of Politics."
The lecture will be followed by an interactive Q&A discussion. The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Ali Ahmida at 207-602-2804 or aahmida@une.edu.