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Fields of desire

High, Holly,

Fields of desire poverty and policy in Laos / [electronic resource] : Holly High. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 Singapore : NUS Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 213 pages) :) illustrations, maps. - Challenges of the agrarian transition in Southeast Asia . - Challenges of the agrarian transition in Southeast Asia. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index.

Introduction : towards a political ethnography of desire -- Eat with you : power as nurturing and devouring -- The mobility of the marginal -- Poverty becomes you : black, white and gold -- Stories of state -- Resurrecting the state : "the will and desire of the people" -- The participatory poverty reduction project -- Mutual aid : delirium and the political field -- Conclusion : fieldnotes from the postrevolution -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

9789971697792


Desire (Philosophy)
Poverty--Government policy--Laos.
Poverty--Political aspects--Laos.
Poverty--Psychological aspects.--Laos
Poverty--Sociological aspects.--Laos


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

HC443.Z9 / P665 2014

305.56909594