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Governing Rural Development: Discourses and Practices of Self-help in Australian Rural Policy (Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning) - Tapa blanda

Cheshire, Lynda

 
9781138278035: Governing Rural Development: Discourses and Practices of Self-help in Australian Rural Policy (Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning)
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ISBN 10: 1138278033 ISBN 13: 9781138278035
Editorial: Routledge, 2017

Sinopsis

In recent decades, the responsibility for initiating regeneration programmes has been placed firmly in the hands of rural communities, with the rationale being that local people are best placed to know their own problems and, consequently, to develop their own solutions. Despite the popularity of this approach, the self-help approach has its own problems and can be seen as an attempt by governments to reduce public spending. This book provides a critical account of the discourses and practices of self-help in contemporary rural development policies of Australia and other western nations. Although it examines the problems of the self-help approach, it moves beyond a straightforward exposition of the impediments to self-help. Instead, 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. It argues that self-help should not be regarded as either the empowerment or the abandonment of rural citizens by a shrinking state, but rather the application of new ways of thinking about and acting upon rural development.

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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.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1138278033
ISBN 13 
9781138278035
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
184
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