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The importance of community-based and participatory approaches to
rural development in developing countries has long been emphasized.
Local Societies and Rural Development demonstrates how rural
people, who are economically and politically weak as individuals,
can only participate in development projects when they are
collectively organized. With the input of expert collaborators in
the field, this book identifies the local social mechanisms that
motivate and control people's self-organizing activities.Through
their use of typology and case studies the contributors identify
the mechanisms through which rural people can best organize
themselves to meet their development requirements. With the
understanding that social context matters, the authors propose a
method that both researchers and practitioners of rural society can
apply to their work. Providing a unique and enlightening
perspective on rural development, this book will be of value to
academics interested in development, regional and rural studies,
particularly those who are interested in researching collective
action in community-based societies. It will also appeal to
practitioners in the field including planners and front-line
workers. Contributors: A. Hayama, M. Iwai, I. Okamoto, S.
Shigetomi, M. Shimagami, A. Venkateswarlu, N. Yamada
In this insightful book, the contributors focus on the impact of
contextual factors on social movements in the developing world,
pushing major existing theories beyond their traditional focus.
With wide coverage of the developing world, leading academics
explore a variety of forms and mechanisms of social movement. They
present discussions on resource and institutional endowment for
mobilization in Colombia and Thailand, and explore the structure
behind political opportunities in Argentina, China and South
Africa. The history and reality of identity-making in India, Mexico
and Nigeria are also examined. Presenting novel analytical
frameworks to study social movements in developing countries, this
book will be warmly welcomed by academics and researchers with an
interest in sociology, development and political science. It will
also strongly appeal to social movement activists.
In many traditional societies, certain resources are held in
common, with their use and disposition controlled by the community
collectively. Such common-pool resources have come to play a
significant element in programs of environmental preservation in
Asia, and for this reason historical changes in arrangements for
controlling them are of considerable importance. Through case
studies from Japan, Korea, Thailand, India and Bhutan, this volume
examines attitudes toward common-pool resources in different local
contexts, with a particular emphasis on forests and policies
relating to environmental conservation. The authors are specialists
on the regions they study who use historical documents in local
languages along with data collected during long-term fieldwork.
Their conclusions raise questions about understandings of natural
property resources based on dichotomous frameworks like "modern
versus traditional societies", "state versus community" and
"commercialization versus subsistence economies". The case studies
indicate that in pre-modern and early modern Asia natural resources
were frequently under free-access regimes, and that where systems
of control existed, subsequent institutional changes involved a
variety of sequences that cannot be summarized readily within a
simple modernist framework.
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