Lynda Cheshire

Governing Rural Development

Discourses and Practices of Self-help in Australian Rural Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

By examining the policies of Australia and other Western nations, this book provides a critical account of the discourses and practices of self-help in contemporary rural development. Taking a Foucauldian governmentality perspective, it puts forward a theoretical analysis of the self-help concept, assessing it as a means of governing rural development in an advanced liberal manner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781138278035
• ISBN-10: 1138278033
• Artikelnr.: 51974356

Autorenporträt

Lynda Cheshire is Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia. She undertakes research in the areas of rural governance, rural protest and other forms of resistance to rural restructuring, and the involvement of private corporations, such as property developers and mining companies, in processes of community development. She has published her work in a number of books, book chapters and journal articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Problem of Self-help
Chapter 2 Power and Government: A Governmentality Perspective
Chapter 3 Contemporary Discourses of Self-help
Chapter 4 A Problematics of Government: Self-help as Discursive Practice
Chapter 5 Technologies of Capacity Building: Disciplining and Regulating Conduct
Chapter 6 Relations of Rule: Self-help in Warmington and Woomeroo
Chapter 7 Docile Bodies? Translating Self-help
Chapter 8 Conclusion: Implications for Rural Development