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People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development

By Robertson , A.F.

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1984
ISBN
052131948X, 9780521319485
LCC
HD88 .R63 1984
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7517802 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Pages
352\353
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book looks at the rise, during this century, of planned development. Most discussion has stressed differences in the style, content and organization of planning in various countries, but this book focuses on the similarities, arguing that it is done in much the same way everywhere, and for basically the same reasons. It begins by tracing the history of modern planning to the efforts of Russia and the western countries earlier this century to organize and control industrialization and economic growth. It looks at the characteristic structures, processes and organizations; of planning and the conflicts in intentions and aspirations of modern states and of ordinary people. A detailed case study of planning in Malaysia is also included.

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