As Scott (1987, 1999, 2012) demonstrates in his analysis of progress—and simplification-driven goals of the state, governing elites devalue local knowledge and undermine individuals’ capacities for self-governance. This hyper-hierarchical, …Milledge Nelson, S. (Ed.) (2006). Handbook of gender in archaeology. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.
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Robert McC. Netting
anthropologist · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Netting appears as a reference in Scott's work on state simplification and the suppression of local knowledge systems, though his specific contributions are not detailed in these excerpt fragments. His presence in the readings suggests relevance to how anarchist or ecological critiques understand governance, expertise, and the devaluation of vernacular knowing—themes that inflect how the course might question technocratic AI design. This invocation of local-knowledge frameworks becomes crucial for interrogating whose epistemologies automated systems encode or erase.
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