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Political Economy: Capturing the Wholeness of Social Relations and Ecological Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2021

Takeshi Ito*
Affiliation:
Takeshi Ito (takeshi.ito@sophia.ac.jp) is Professor of Political Science at Sophia University, Tokyo.
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Undeniably, one of the rare characteristics of James C. Scott's scholarship is that his analytical insights are widely recognized in many fields beyond political science and Asian studies. Scott's contributions to the vast literatures of agrarian and environmental studies, the theory of hegemony and resistance, development studies, postcolonial studies, state formation, and anarchism, to name just a few, are recognized by scholars of diverse disciplines as new standards that challenge widely accepted assumptions and theories and reveal underappreciated aspects and untold narratives of social history—particularly for those who, under normal conditions, do not raise their voice and did not have letters to leave records.

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Forum—Power and Agency: The Discipline-Shifting Work of James C. Scott
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021

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