ABSTRACT
James C. Scott was born on 2 December 1936. He is an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics. He is a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies, subaltern politics, and anarchism. His primary research has centred on peasants of Southeast Asia and their strategies of resistance to various forms of domination. Scott was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey. On the advice of Indonesia scholar William Hollinger, he wrote an honours thesis on the economic development of Burma. Upon graduation, Scott received a Rotary International Fellowship to study in Burma, where he was recruited by an American student activist who had become an anti-communist organizer for the Central Intelligence Agency.
