Unplanned Development

Tracking Change in South-East Asia

AvJonathan Rigg

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Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Unplanned Development offers a fascinating and fresh view into the realities of development planning. While to the outsider most development projects present themselves as thoroughly planned endeavours informed by structure, direction and intent, Jonathan Rigg exposes the truth of development experience that chance, serendipity, turbulence and the unexpected define development around the world.Based on rich empirical sources from South-East Asia, Unplanned Development sustains a unique general argument in making the case for chance and turbulence in development. Identifying chance as a leading factor in all development planning, the book contributes to a better way of dealing with the unexpected and asks vital questions on the underlying paradoxes of development practice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-10-11
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781848139916
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Mer om författaren

Jonathan Rigg is a development geographer at Durham University. He is also the author of An Everyday Geography of the Global South (2007), Living with Transition in Laos (2005), Southeast Asia: The human landscape of modernisation and development (2003) and, edited with Peter Vandergeest, Revisiting Rural Places: Pathways to poverty and prosperity in Southeast Asia (2012).

Recensioner i media

This is a book with a powerful and disruptive message. Above all, Jonathan Rigg's superbly crafted and thoroughly documented critique warns us against prediction and prescription in the study and practice of development. This is a celebration of human agency and diversity, and also a warning for all those inclined to take a one-size-fits-all approach to understanding or shaping social, economic, political and environmental change in Asia.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface1. The hidden geometries of development2. From development plans to development planning3. State and market perfections and imperfections4. The teleology of development: history and technology5. The power of ordinary events in shaping development6. Fertility decline and its consequences in Asia7. Contingent developmentNotesBibliography