Publication . Cerezales, Diego Palacio; Duarte, Diogo; Sobral, José Manuel; Neves, José
J
ames C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University
where he directs the Program in Agrarian Studies. Author of foundational books on
the fields of Agrarian studies and Social Movements (but with a wider resonance in other
domains of social sciences), namely The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence
in Southeast Asia (1977), Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985),
and Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (1990), Scott recently published
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (2009). His work
has been a major source of inspiration for the four of us and we therefore invited him to visit
Portugal in order to discuss some of the key-elements of his research.
