Trojan-horse aid : seeds of resistance and resilience in the Bolivian highlands and beyond / Susan Walsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walsh, Susan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural assistance--Bolivia--Potosí (Department).

Agricultural assistance.

Agriculture--Bolivia--Potosí (Department).

Agriculture.

Quechua Indians--Agriculture--Bolivia--Potosí (Department).

Quechua Indians.

Peasants--Bolivia--Potosí (Department).

Peasants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A frank account about Andean aid that asks development workers to leave their hubris and Western recipes at home.

Contents:

Prologue: When Making Other Plans

1 Introduction: Packets of Paradox

2 Beyond Donut-Style Research

3 Embedded and Invented

4 Deep Connections

5 Bouncing Back

6 Ecological Complementarity

7 An Interconnected Web

8 Breaking the Balance

9 Farmer Proletariat

10 Hungry in Body and Spirit

11 "Dipstick" Development

12 Old Habits Die Hard

13 The Monocropping of People, Plants, and Knowledge

14 Development with Dignity

Epilogue: Paradox, Resistance, and Resilience.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 18, 2014).

ISBN:

9780773596627

0773596623

9780773596610

0773596615

OCLC:

1055407223