Will to Improve Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics

Name: Will to Improve Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics
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ISBN: 9780822340270

ISBN-10: 0822340275

ISBN-13: 9780822340270

Edition: 2007

Authors: Tania Murray Li

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"The Will to Improve" is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that enable experts to diagnose problems and devise interventions, and the agency of people whose conduct is targeted for reform. Deftly integrating theory, ethnography, and history, she illuminates the work of colonial officials and missionaries; specialists in agriculture, hygiene, and credit; and political activists with their own schemes for guiding villagers toward better ways of life. She examines donor-funded initiatives that seek to integrate conservation with development through the…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 5/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Acronyms


Glossary of Indonesian Terms


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Will to Improve



Contradictory Positions



Projects, Practices, and Effects



Formations of Capital and Identity



Rendering Technical?



Politics in Contention



Provocation and Reversal



Development in the Age of Neoliberalism


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index