Governing Rural Development: Discourses and Practices of Self-help in Australian Rural Policy

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 173 sider
A critical, theoretical examination of self-help as a guiding framework for contemporary rural policy, and an analysis of the discourses, forms and outcomes of such an approach as they are played out in specific locales.

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The Problem of Selfhelp
1
A Governmentality Perspective 27
27
Contemporary Discourses of Selfhelp
39
Selfhelp as Discursive Practice
57
Disciplining and Regulating Conduct
77
Selfhelp in Warmington and Woomeroo
91
Docile Bodies? Translating Selfhelp
113
Implications for Rural Development
137
Bibliography
151
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Lynda Cheshire is Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia. She undertakes research in the areas of rural governance, rural protest and other forms of resistance to rural restructuring, and the involvement of private corporations, such as property developers and mining companies, in processes of community development. She has published her work in a number of books, book chapters and journal articles.

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