Decentring Development: Understanding Change in Agrarian Societies (Anthropology, Change and Development)
Tanya Jakimow
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Description for Decentring Development: Understanding Change in Agrarian Societies (Anthropology, Change and Development)
Hardcover. The ways we understand processes of agrarian change are pressing issues for policy makers and development practitioners. Interpreting changes in two agrarian societies in India and Indonesia, the author reveals how transformations to self are critical factors shaping change, as well as under-recognized consequences of development initiatives. Series: Global Political Thinkers. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FMN; JFSF; JHMC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
The ways we understand processes of agrarian change are pressing issues for policy makers and development practitioners. Interpreting changes in two agrarian societies in India and Indonesia, the author reveals how transformations to self are critical factors shaping change, as well as under-recognized consequences of development initiatives.
The ways we understand processes of agrarian change are pressing issues for policy makers and development practitioners. Interpreting changes in two agrarian societies in India and Indonesia, the author reveals how transformations to self are critical factors shaping change, as well as under-recognized consequences of development initiatives.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Global Political Thinkers
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137466426
SKU
V9781137466426
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Ref
99-15
About Tanya Jakimow
Tanya Jakimow is Senior Lecturer and DECRA Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She has published in the fields of livelihoods, agrarian change, and NGOs in India and Indonesia. Her most recent book Peddlers of Information: Indian NGOs in the Information Age was published in 2012.
Reviews for Decentring Development: Understanding Change in Agrarian Societies (Anthropology, Change and Development)
“Decentring Development is an important and interesting theoretical contribution to this pragmatic and oft-repeated question. … This reviewer enjoyed the critical observations and analysis of development in this book. Jakimow makes a strong case for the extension of critical and decentred approaches into donor-funded development research. … I would suggest that development practitioners are surprisingly reflexive about their profession and ... Read more