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The Will to Improve - Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (Paperback)
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The Will to Improve - Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (Paperback)
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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 theproblems that beset them.
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