Fields of desire [electronic resource] : poverty and policy in Laos / Holly High.
Material type: TextSeries: Challenges of the agrarian transition in Southeast Asia | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 2015); Singapore : NUS Press, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 213 pages) :) illustrations, mapsISBN:- 9789971697792
- 305.56909594 23
- HC443.Z9 P665 2014
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.
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