Fields of Desire by Holly High PAPERBACK 9789971697709

Fields of Desire\nby Holly High\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Holly High\nTitle: Fields of Desire\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural anthropology\nPublisher: NUS Press\nPublication year: 2014\nISBN-13: 9789971697709\nISBN-10: 997169770X\nRRP: \u00A328.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nHigh's argument is based on long-term fieldwork in a village in Laos. The village was identified as poor and was the subject of multiple poverty reduction and development interventions. This book looks at how these policies were implemented on the ground, particularly at why such apparently beneficent interventions were received locally with suspicion and disillusionment, often ended in failure, and yet, despite this, were also able to recapture people's desires. High rel.