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The Art of Not Being Governed

An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James Scott. The Art of Not Being Governed. Hills, Valleys, and States: An Introduction to Zomia. A World of Peripheries The Last Enclosure Creating Subjects The Great Mountain Kingdom; or Zomia , The Marches of Mainland Southeast Asia

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The Art of Not Being Governed

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  1. An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James Scott The Art of Not Being Governed

  2. Hills, Valleys, and States: An Introduction to Zomia • A World of Peripheries • The Last Enclosure • Creating Subjects • The Great Mountain Kingdom; or Zomia, The Marches of Mainland Southeast Asia • Zones of Refuge • The Symbiotic History of Hills and Valleys • Towards an Anarchist History of Mainland Southeast Asia • The Elementary Units of Political Order

  3. State Space: Zones of Governance and Appropriation Mapping State Space Influence of god-kings

  4. Concentrating Manpower and Grain: Slavery and Irrigated Rice • The State as Centripetal Population Machine • The Shaping of State Landscapes and State Subjects • Eradicating Illegible Agriculture • E Pluribus Unum: The Creole Center • Techniques of Population Control • Slavery • Fiscal Legibility • State Space as Self-Liquidating

  5. Civilization and the Unruly • Valley States, Highland Peoples: Dark Twins • The Economic Need for Barbarians • The Invention of Barbarians • The Domestication of Borrowed Finery: All the Way Down • The Civilizing Mission • Civilization as Rule • Leaving the State, going over to the Barbarians

  6. Keeping the State at a Distance: The Peopling of the Hills • Other Regions of Refuge • The Peopling of Zomia: the Long March • The Ubiquity and Causes of Flight • Taxes and Corvee Labor • War and Rebellion • Raiding and Slaving • Rebels and Schismatics to the Hills • Crowding, Health, and the Ecology of State Space • Against the Grain • The Friction of Distance: States and Culture • Mini-Zomias, Dry and Wet • Going over to the Barbarians • Autonomy as Identity, State-Evading Peoples

  7. State Evasion, State Prevention: The Culture and Agriculture of Escape • An Extreme Case: Karen “Hiding Villages” • Location, Location, Location, and Mobility • Escape Agriculture • New World Perspectives • Shifting Agriculture as “Escape-Agriculture” • Crop Choice as Escape Agriculture • Southeast Asian Swiddening as Escape • Southeast Asian Escape Crops • Maize • Cassava/Manioc/Yucca • Social Structure of Escape • “Tribality” • Evading Stateness and Permanent Hierarchy • In the Shadow of the State, in the Shadow of the Hills

  8. Orality, Writing, and Texts • Oral Histories and Writing • The Narrowness of Literacy and Some Precedents for Its Loss • On the Disadvantages of Writing and the Advantages of Orality • The Advantages of Not Having a History

  9. Ethnogenesis: A Radical Constructionist Case • The Incoherence of Tribe and Ethnicity • State Making as a Cosmopolitan Ingathering • Valleys Flatten • Identities : Porosity, Plurality, Flux • Radical Constructionism: The Tribe Is Dead, Long Live the Tribe • Tribe-Making • Genealogical Face Saving • Positionality • Egalitarianism: The Prevention of States

  10. Prophets of Renewal • A Vocation for Prophecy and Rebellion: Hmong, Karen, and Lahu • Hmong • Karen • Lahu • Theodicy of the Marginal and Dispossessed • Prophets are a Dime a Dozen • “Sooner or Later…” • High-Altitude Prophetism • Dialogue, Mimicry, and Connections • Turning on a Dime: The Ultimate Escape Social Structure • Cosmologies of Ethnic Collaboration • Christianity: A Resource for Distance and Modernity

  11. Conclusion • State Evasion, State Prevention: Global-Local • Gradients of Secession and Adaptation • Civilization and Its Malcontents

  12. 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/903 • Tom Palmer - Atlas Foundation http://reason.com/archives/2010/05/25/life-on-the-edge • Victor Lieberman - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7807296 • Debate - http://asu.academia.edu/HjorleifurJonsson/Papers/506301/States_lie_and_stories_are_tools_Following_up_on_Zomia

  13. 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.

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