Thinking Small : : The United States and the Lure of Community Development / / Daniel Immerwahr.
Thinking Small tells the story of how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based approaches. And it also sounds a warning: such strategies, now again in vogue, have been tried before, with often disastrous consequences. It is common for historians...
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Immerwahr, Daniel, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Thinking Small : The United States and the Lure of Community Development / Daniel Immerwahr. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015] ©2014 1 online resource (240 p.) : 14 halftones, 1 table text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Modernization, Development, and Community -- Introduction: Actually Existing Localism -- 1. When Small Was Big -- 2. Development without Modernization -- 3. Peasantville -- 4. Grassroots Empire -- Epilogue: What Is Dead and What Is Undead in Community Development? -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Thinking Small tells the story of how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based approaches. And it also sounds a warning: such strategies, now again in vogue, have been tried before, with often disastrous consequences. It is common for historians to interpret the United States’ postwar development campaigns as ill-advised attempts to impose modernity upon poorer nations. The small-scale projects that are popular today mark a retreat from that top-down, heavy-handed approach. But Daniel Immerwahr shows that community-based development is nothing new: it has been present since the origins of international development practice, existing alongside—and sometimes at the heart of—grander schemes to modernize the global South. His transnational study follows a set of strange bedfellows—the Peace Corps and the CIA, Mohandas Gandhi and Ferdinand Marcos, antipoverty activists and Cold Warriors—united by their conviction that development should not be about engineers building dams but about communities shaping their own fates. The programs they designed covered hundreds of millions of people in some sixty countries, eventually making their way back to the United States itself during the War on Poverty. Yet the hope that small communities might lift themselves up was often disappointed, as self-help gave way to crushing forms of local oppression. Thinking Small challenges those who hope to eradicate poverty to think twice about the risks as well as the benefits of community development. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Community development -- Developing countries -- History. Community development -- United States -- History. Community development Developing countries History. Community development United States History. Economic assistance, American -- Developing countries -- History. Economic assistance, American Developing countries History. Rural development projects -- Developing countries -- History. Rural development projects -- United States -- History. Rural development projects Developing countries History. Rural development projects United States History. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 9783110439687 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2015 9783110438635 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674735835 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674735835 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674735835/original |
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