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Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos (Challenges of the Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia [ChATSEA])
Holly High
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Description for Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos (Challenges of the Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia [ChATSEA])
Paperback. This is a psychoanalytically inspired social science approach to the human experience. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFFA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
High's argument is based on long-term fieldwork in a village in Laos. The village was identified as poor and was the subject of multiple poverty reduction and development interventions. This book looks at how these policies were implemented on the ground, particularly at why such apparently beneficent interventions were received locally with suspicion and disillusionment, often ended in failure, and yet, despite this, were also able to recapture people's desires. High relates this to the ""post-rebellious"" moment in contemporary Laos, the force of aspirations among village residents and locally grounded understandings of the ambivalence of power.
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High's argument is based on long-term fieldwork in a village in Laos. The village was identified as poor and was the subject of multiple poverty reduction and development interventions. This book looks at how these policies were implemented on the ground, particularly at why such apparently beneficent interventions were received locally with suspicion and disillusionment, often ended in failure, and yet, despite this, were also able to recapture people's desires. High relates this to the ""post-rebellious"" moment in contemporary Laos, the force of aspirations among village residents and locally grounded understandings of the ambivalence of power.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971697709
SKU
V9789971697709
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About Holly High
Holly High is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.
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