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2007

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Li Tania Murray Li

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391

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2007

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

16 mai 2007

EAN13

9780822389781

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

20 Mo

The Will to Improve is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that enable experts to diagnose problems and devise interventions, and the agency of people whose conduct is targeted for reform. Deftly integrating theory, ethnography, and history, she illuminates the work of colonial officials and missionaries; specialists in agriculture, hygiene, and credit; and political activists with their own schemes for guiding villagers toward better ways of life. She examines donor-funded initiatives that seek to integrate conservation with development through the participation of communities, and a one-billion-dollar program designed by the World Bank to optimize the social capital of villagers, inculcate new habits of competition and choice, and remake society from the bottom up.Demonstrating that the "will to improve" has a long and troubled history, Li identifies enduring continuities from the colonial period to the present. She explores the tools experts have used to set the conditions for reform-tools that combine the reshaping of desires with applications of force. Attending in detail to the highlands of Sulawesi, she shows how a series of interventions entangled with one another and tracks their results, ranging from wealth to famine, from compliance to political mobilization, and from new solidarities to oppositional identities and violent attack. The Will to Improve is an engaging read-conceptually innovative, empirically rich, and alive with the actions and reflections of the targets of improvement, people with their own critical analyses of the problems that beset them.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

16 mai 2007

EAN13

9780822389781

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

20 Mo

the will to improve

Governmentality, Development,

and the Practice of Politics

tania murray li

Duke University Press≤Durham&London 2007

∫2007 Duke University Press

Printed in the United States of America

on acid-free paper$

Typeset in Scala by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

appear on the last printed page of this book.

List of Acronyms

vii

Glossary of Indonesian Terms

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Will to Improve

∞Contradictory Positions

≤Projects, Practices, and E√ects

≥Formations of Capital and Identity

∂Rendering Technical?

∑Politics in Contention

123

16

∏Provocation and Reversal

192

πDevelopment in the Age of Neoliberalism

Conclusion

Notes

28

Bibliography

Index

367

270

337

230

contents

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list of acronyms

Asian Development Bank Asia Pulp and Paper Community Conservation Agreement Human Rights Watch Kecamatan (subdistrict) Development Project Konsorsium Pembaruan Agraria (Consortium for Agrarian Reform) Netherlands East Indies Non-governmental organization Participatory Rural Appraisal Support for Poor and Disadvantaged Areas Project Stability of Rainforest Margins The Nature Conservancy United Nations Development Program United States Agency for International Development Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands East Indies Company) Wahana Lingkunan Hidup Indonesia (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) Yayasan Tanah Merdeka (Free Land Foundation)

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Masyarakat terasing Petrus

Provokasi Reformasi

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glossary of indonesian terms

Custom Record of sale and purchase Resin used in the production of varnish Customary community, translation of indigenous people Isolated and estranged community Contraction ofpenembakan misterius, mysterious shooting Provocation Reform period following the resignation of Suharto in 1998 Irrigated wet rice ﬁeld

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