On Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

James Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. He will be presenting an extension of his 2009 book. 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. RECEPTION TO FOLLOW.