The earliest states, high modernist states and the importance of intermediaries

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Note on contributor

Niels Brimnes is Associate Professor and currently Head of the Department of History and Classical Studies at Aarhus University. He has worked on colonialism in India and more recently taken an interest in the history of international health in the twentieth century. In 2016 he published Languished Hopes. Tuberculosis, the State and International Assistance in Twentieth-century India (Delhi: Orient BlackSwan).

Notes

1 My engagement with Scott’s work has also resulted in a thematic issue of the Danish journal Temp (edited with Casper Andersen) on the concept of modernity and the urge to modernize. In this issue Seeing Like State took center stage. The only English contribution to the issue was an interview with Scott, entitled ‘Beyond the high modernist moment’ (Brimnes and Andersen 2016).