https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-review-the-art-of-not-being-governed/2010/12/26 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:06:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-review-the-art-of-not-being-governed/2010/12/26/comment-page-1#comment-892987 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:06:16 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=12509#comment-892987 The art of not being governed in an interesting book. However, for me, it is important to read it from society center perspective (periphery perspective), I mean that there are areas/regions which state intentionally donot want to govern. Like Tribal areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, may be it is possible that the State by will/intentionally keep these areas beyond its control, due to many reasons. These Pakistani northern tribal areas is one of the area, we can say belong to Zomia. So I think while studying the Zomia, James Scot missed the perspective of State will that state intentionally, some time donot want to bring an area under its control for various reasons.

]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-review-the-art-of-not-being-governed/2010/12/26/comment-page-1#comment-471086 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:06:26 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=12509#comment-471086 The art of not being govern is one of the most interesting books i’ve ever read in my whole life. however, i’ve got one problem with the term “Zomia”. The term is coined by Dutch social scientist William Van Schendel after his field work in India’s north-east. he actually borrow the term from the Mizo (some called themselves Zomi, Chin, Zo, Zhou etc) tribal of North East India. Since, i belong to this tribal group and i’m sure zomia is not a Mizo/Zomi term at all. Rather a corrupt form of Mizo/Zomi…to be precise, European mispronunciation of the Mizo language..

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