Özet:

James C. Scott, who deals with a kind of representative reduction of truth, through macro-scale simplification and readiness practices of political organizations such as the state, in his work, See Like the State, offers various case analyses on these comprehensive projects. Over the course of the work, government schemes, simplification attempts, transformative activities and readiness policies are drawn up within the framework of specific social development plans. Scott's work was published in 1998 by Yale University Publications, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. After the publication, the work became the subject of countless studies, and in the twenty-five year it continues to be the basis of various discussions such as development, state and nation building processes. Approximately a decade after its publication, the Versus Book was awarded to Turkish with the title How Projects to Improve the Status of Humanity were Failed. In addition to Erdogan's translation, in 2020, Ozan Karakaş's translation and Koç University Publications were translated again into Turkish with the title "Histories of Failure of Some Social Development Plans".