Professor James Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University.

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(May 22, 2008 at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))

Chair: Professor Jude Howell

Professor Scott argues that the hill peoples of mainland Southeast Asia are fugitive, runaway populations, practising 'escape agriculture', 'escape social structure' and 'escape culture'. Jim Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University.