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The will to improve : governmentality, development, and the practice of politics / Tania Murray Li.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Tania, 1959-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--Political aspects.
- Economic development.
- Sulawesi Tengah (Indonesia)--Economic policy.
- Sulawesi Tengah (Indonesia).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (391 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Theoretical and anthropological study of how techniques of governance have been devised in the colonial and postcolonial context of Indonesia and their effect on current debates over economic development in the region.
- Contents:
- Contradictory positions
- Projects, practices, and effects
- Formations of capital and identity
- Rendering technical?
- Politics in contention
- Provocation and reversal
- Development in the age of neoliberalism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-365) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822389781
- 0822389789
- OCLC:
- 651858112
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