James Scott Speaking at UH on October 3
Posted: September 22, 2006

The UH Department of History welcomes James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University, on Tuesday, October 3.  He will speak at 4 p.m. in SEC 102.

Scott’s path-breaking work cuts across disciplines and has had a major influence in history, political science, anthropology, and sociology. Among these are included Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts and Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed.

A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Scott has held numerous prestigious grants and fellowships. These have supported his wide-ranging research on political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony, domination, and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, and theories of class relations and anarchism.

His talk is entitled "Why Civilizations Can’t Climb Hills: Hills and Valleys in Mainland Southeast Asia." 

To read more about his work, especially some of the theoretical controversies in which he has been engaged, see www.ruf/rice.edu/~acl/jscottarticle.pdf.

Professor Scott’s visit to Houston has been organized in conjunction with the Department of History at Rice University where he will speak on October 4^th.

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