Governing rural development [electronic resource] : discourses and practices of self-help in Australian rural policy / by Lynda Cheshire.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Perspectives on rural policy and planningPublication details: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.Description: 173 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 307.1/4120994 22
LOC classification:
  • HN850.Z9 C63315 2006eb
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Contents:
Introduction: the problem of self-help -- Power and government: a governmentality perspective -- Contemporary discourses of self-help -- A problematics of government: self-help as discursive practice -- Technologies of capacity building: disciplining and regulating conduct -- Relations of rule: self-help in Warmington and Woomeroo -- Docile bodies? translating self-help -- Conclusion: implications for rural development.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-169) and index.

Introduction: the problem of self-help -- Power and government: a governmentality perspective -- Contemporary discourses of self-help -- A problematics of government: self-help as discursive practice -- Technologies of capacity building: disciplining and regulating conduct -- Relations of rule: self-help in Warmington and Woomeroo -- Docile bodies? translating self-help -- Conclusion: implications for rural development.

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