ISBN:
9780415817738
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (229 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
Parallel Title:
Print version Intimate Economies of Development : Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia
DDC:
306.309597/8
Keywords:
Sex -- Mekong River Region
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Public health -- Mekong River Region
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Economic development -- Social aspects -- Mekong River Region
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Mekong River Region -- Social conditions
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Mekong River Region -- Economic conditions
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Mekong River Region -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Aspirations, desires, opportunism and exploitation are seldom considered as fundamental elements of donor-driven development as it impacts on the lives of people in poor countries. Yet, alongside structural interventions, emotional or affective engagements are central to processes of social change and the making of selves for those caught up in development's slipstream. Intimate Economies of Development lays bare the ways that culture, sexuality and health are inevitably and inseparably linked to material economies within trajectories of modernization in the Greater Mekong Sub-region. As migra
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Ethnicity, capital and the architecture of mobile hopes and dreams; 2 Frontiers and embodied ambitions; 3 Special zones - anomalous spaces; 4 Intimate safeguards and affective politics of the precariat; 5 Poiesis of the intimate encounter: dormitory exchanges and bed-sit affairs; 6 First do no harm; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
