Unplanned Development(s) Tracking Change in South-East Asia
by Rigg, JonathanFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-11-27
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Summary
Unplanned Development(s) offers a fascinating and fresh view into the realities of development planning. While to the outsider most development projects present themselves as thoroughly planned endeavors 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 the Southeast Asian region, the author 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, Unplanned Development(s) contributes to a better way of dealing with the unexpected and asks vital questions on the underlying paradoxes of development practice.
Author Biography
Jonathan Rigg is a development geographer at Durham University. He has been conducting fieldwork in Southeast Asia, mainly in rural areas of the Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam, since the early 1980s. His interests include agrarian change, rural-urban relations, political ecology, and migration and mobility. 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, most recently edited with Peter Vandergeest Revisiting rural places: pathways to poverty and prosperity in Southeast Asia (forthcoming 2011).
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The hidden geometries of development * Chapter 2: From development plans to development planning: building dreams * Chapter 3: State and market perfections and imperfections: The Asian miracle, the Asian crisis and the 'proper' place of the state and the market * Chapter 4: One thing after another? The teleology of development, turning points in history, and technologies that make a difference * Chapter 5: 'Events, my dear boy, events': the power of ordinary events in shaping human development * Chapter 6: Unpredictable behaviours: The puzzle of fertility decline and its consequences in Asia * Chapter 7: Contingent development * Further reading * Bibliography
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