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James C. Scott’s Contributions to Southeast Asia Studies: A Panel Discussion

This panel discussion featured scholars and publishers working in the field of Southeast Asia Studies who described some of the main inspirations that have found the work of James C. Scott. The video features short reflections from each of the panelists on professor Scott’s contributions to Southeast Asia Studies and some open discussion and dialogue with members of the audience. Panelists Jean E. Thomson Black is Senior Executive Editor for Science, Medicine, and the Environment at Yale University Press.  She has collaborated with Jim Scott on three of his books: The Art of Not Being Governed, Against the Grain, and In Praise of Floods, and oversees the Yale Agrarian Studies Series. The series has included many books on various topics in the field of Southeast Asian Studies.   Brad Davis is a historian of Vietnam who works on borderlands, uplands, and multicultural spaces. His first book, Imperial Bandits, connected the resistance strategies of ordinary people to state violence in nineteenth century China and Vietnam, and his current work focuses on the multi-species environmental history of Vietnam as well as the cultural history of Southeast Asian uplands. Michael R. Dove is a member of the first cohort of Jim’s Agrarian Studies postdoc program, co-taught Agrarian Societies every year with Jim and colleagues for his first decade at Yale, and has published multiple times in Jim’s Agrarian Studies Series at Yale University Press. Erik Harms is chair of the Council on Southeast Asian Studies, and acting chair of the Department of Anthropology at Yale. Professor Harms is a scholar of Vietnam and has been the lucky recipient of much wisdom from Jim Scott ever since joining the faculty at Yale in 2008. Christian C. Lentz is Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His Contested Territory: Dien Bien Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam won the 2021 Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies for outstanding first book in Southeast Asian studies. David Thang Moe is a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in Southeast Asian Studies at Yale University, and a Co-chair of Religion in Southeast Asia Unit at the American Academy of Religion. Nancy Lee Peluso is a scholar of forest politics, agrarian change, and land use change in Southeast Asia, and was until her recent retirement the Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She taught at Yale in the 1990s before taking up a position at Berkeley in 1996. Meredith Weiss Meredith Weiss is Professor of Political Science at SUNY Albany and founding Director of the Luce funded SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium. She has published widely on social mobilization and civil society, the politics of identity and development, electoral politics and parties, institutional reform, and subnational governance in Southeast Asia, with particular focus on Malaysia and Singapore. She received her PhD from Yale and was a student of Jim Scott.