Governing rural development : discourses and practices of self-help in Australian rural policy
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Governing rural development : discourses and practices of self-help in Australian rural policy
(Perspectives on rural policy and planning)
Routledge, 2017, c2006
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing. First issued in paperback 2017"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-169) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In recent decades, the responsibility for initiating regeneration programmes has been placed firmly in the hands of rural communities, with the rationale being that local people are best placed to know their own problems and, consequently, to develop their own solutions. Despite the popularity of this approach, the self-help approach has its own problems and can be seen as an attempt by governments to reduce public spending. This book provides a critical account of the discourses and practices of self-help in contemporary rural development policies of Australia and other western nations. Although it examines the problems of the self-help approach, it moves beyond a straightforward exposition of the impediments to self-help. Instead, taking a Foucauldian governmentality perspective, it puts forward a theoretical analysis of the self-help concept, assessing it as a means of governing rural development in an advanced liberal manner. It argues that self-help should not be regarded as either the empowerment or the abandonment of rural citizens by a shrinking state, but rather the application of new ways of thinking about and acting upon rural development.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Problem of Self-help
- Chapter 2 Power and Government: A Governmentality Perspective
- Chapter 3 Contemporary Discourses of Self-help
- Chapter 4 A Problematics of Government: Self-help as Discursive Practice
- Chapter 5 Technologies of Capacity Building: Disciplining and Regulating Conduct
- Chapter 6 Relations of Rule: Self-help in Warmington and Woomeroo
- Chapter 7 Docile Bodies? Translating Self-help
- Chapter 8 Conclusion: Implications for Rural Development
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