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Development Professionals in Northern Thailand - Hope, Politics and Practice (Paperback)
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Development Professionals in Northern Thailand - Hope, Politics and Practice (Paperback)
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'Development' promises higher incomes, better livelihoods, social
justice and emancipation, but decades of good intentions have left
hill communities in Northern Thailand with high rates of drug
addiction and poverty, and a loss of traditional knowledge and
values. A former volunteer and development specialist who spent
much of her childhood in the region, Katharine McKinnon set out to
consider what has gone wrong by studying professionals involved in
development work. How, she asks, did the highlands come to be seen
as needing development? And why did the presence of
well-intentioned developers still leave behind so much apparent
misery and hardship? Returning to the region to conduct an
ethnography of development professionals, McKinnon found that the
majority were dedicated to ideals of altruism, emancipation and
advocacy for local people, and resigned to the inevitable failures
and shortcomings that emerge when development efforts are co-opted
by geopolitics. Her book is an account of the everyday efforts and
struggles of those who 'do' development - consultants, researchers,
government officials, NGO workers and village partners. Taking a
critical approach to post-development theory, she argues that
politics and ideology are an intrinsic part of development work,
and argues that an active engagement with the politics of
development is essential for professionals hoping to make a
difference.
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