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Fields of Desire : Poverty and Policy in Laos /

In this important new book, High argues that poverty reduction policies are formulated and implemented in fields of desire. Drawing on psychoanalytic understandings of desire, she shows that such programs circulate around the question of what is lacking. Far from rational responses to measures of ne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: High, Holly (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Colección:Challenges of the agrarian transition in Southeast Asia.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction : towards a political ethnography of desire -- Eat with you : power as nurturing and devouring -- The mobility of the marginal -- Poverty becomes you : black, white and gold -- Stories of state -- Resurrecting the state : "the will and desire of the people" -- The participatory poverty reduction project -- Mutual aid : delirium and the political field -- Conclusion : fieldnotes from the postrevolution -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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