James C. McCann's scientific contributions

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... (1 2 7). As much as "seeing like a state" in James Scott's formulation proved so important to understanding how and why state institutions imagine and produce spatial environments in often paradoxical and damaging ways (Scott, 2008), it is nevertheless impossible to speak of 'the state' as a monolithic entity producing monolithic ways of thinking and bodies of knowledge. Bureaucrats, agency officials, policy makers, politicians, and enforcement officers all constitute the diverse array of actors that create and shape environments at the behest of 'the state.' ...