Asian Studies in 1997. In 2020 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Selected bibliography (Note: excludes edited volumes.) Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. 2017 Decoding subaltern politics. Ideology, disguise, and resistance in agrarian politics. Routledge, 2012 (Critical Asian scholarship ; 8) Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play. Princeton University Press, 2012 The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. Yale University Press, 2009 Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press, 1998 Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. Yale University Press, 1990 Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. Yale University Press, 1985 The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. Yale University Press, 1979 Comparative Political Corruption. Prentice-Hall, 1972 See also Societal collapse Zomia References External links Homepage at Yale James Scott explores governance in the Southeast Asian highlands at Asia Society, November 2010 (w/ video) interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 26th March 2009 followed by his Mellon Lecture given in Cambridge Interview with James Scott by Theory Talks, May 2010 Interviewed by Benjamin Ferron and Claire Oger 20th June 2018 (The Conversation) Williams College alumni Yale University faculty American political scientists Political ecologists Revolution theorists Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 1936 births Living people Yale Sterling Professors American anthropologists Presidents of the Association for Asian Studies Members of the American Philosophical Society Moorestown Friends School alumni People from Mount Holly, New Jersey