The Art of Not Being Governed (By James C. Scott)

#ads Stream any unabridged audiobook of your choice with premium access by starting your trial on:https://booksreader.space/al-1975/Title: The Art of Not Being Governed Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series Author: James C. Scott Narrator: Alex Boyles Format: mp3 Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins Release date: 02-04-25 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 7 ratings Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: For two thousand years, the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia—a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries—have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them: slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless.