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International Roundtable 2008Speakers James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, with a joint appointment in Anthropology. He received a B.A. from Williams College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He is author of such books as The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Subsistence and Rebellion in Southeast Asia (1976); Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985); Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (1990); and Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed (1998). A book chapter explores "Geographies of Trust: Geographies of Hierarchy," in Democracy and Trust, edited by Mark Warren (1998). An article is "The Production of Legal Identities Proper to States: The Case of the Permanent Family Surname," Comparative Studies in Society and History 44, no. 1 (January 2002). A Board member of Asia Watch, he also directs the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University and farms in Connecticut. Ravi Kanbur is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Cambridge and a doctorate in Economics from Oxford. He has served on the staff of the World Bank, including as Chief Economist for Africa. His vita lists over 150 publications in journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Theory, and Journal of Development Economics. Recent books and journal symposia include Poverty and Inequality (co-editor, 2006); Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies (co-editor, 2006); “Private Provision of Public Goods” (co-editor, 2007, Special Issue of Journal of Public Economics); and “Market Development and Inequality in China” (co-editor, 2008, Special Issue of Economics of Transition, 2008). Michael J. Watts is Professor, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley. He is also Chairman of the Development Studies major and Director of the African Studies Center (to 2008). He earned his B.S., First Class Honors, at the University of London and an M.A. at the University of Michigan. After postgraduate research at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, he secured a Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Michigan. His publications include Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements (co-editor, 1996, 2004); Violent Environments (co-editor, 2001); Encyclopaedia of Sub-Saharan Africa (co-editor, 4 volumes, awarded the African Studies Association Conover-Porter Prize for Reference Books, 2000); and Globalizing Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring (co-editor, 1997). He has just published a book (2008), The Curse of the Black Gold, with photographer Ed Kashi on the impact of oil in the Niger Delta. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Social Science Research Council
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