Local Societies and Rural Development —Self-organization and Participatory Development in Asia—
Co-publication with Other Foreign Publishers
Edward Elgar
The importance of community-based and participatory approaches to rural development in developing countries has long been emphasized. Rural people, who are economically and politically weak as individuals, can only participate in development projects when they are collectively organized. However, this is no easy task. This book aims to identify the mechanisms in each local society through which rural people can best organize themselves to meet their development requirements. It stresses the need to find local mechanisms that motivate and control the members of a new organization in order to achieve organizational goals.
■ Local Societies and Rural Development —Self-organization and Participatory Development in Asia—
■ Edited by Shinichi Shigetomi, and Ikuko Okamoto
■ ￡75.00
■ 233pp
■ Published in 2014
■ ISBN978-1-78347-437-0
CONTENTS
List of contributors
Preface
1. Local societies and rural people’s self-organizing activities: an analytical framework
Shinichi Shigetomi and Ikuko Okamoto
PART I LOCALITY GROUPS AND HOST ORGANIZATIONS IN LOCAL SOCIETY
2. Composition of locality groups as the basis of local social systems: the case of rural Thailand
Shinichi Shigetomi
3. Rural development in a multi-layered local system: a poverty reduction program case in Central Vietnam
Misaki Iwai
4. Organizing community forestry in rural Myanmar: capability and functions of villages
Ikuko Okamoto
PART II LOCAL SOCIETY AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS
5. Organizational responses of local societies in regional diversity: case study of a microfinance project in rural Indonesia
Motoko Shimagami
6. Forms of collective actions in a dyadically woven local society: the case of rural Philippines
Atsuko Hayama
7. Common fund procurement through rent collection: a form of collective action for public works and public services in Indian villages
Akina Venkateswarlu and Shinichi Shigetomi
8. Communal resource-driven rural development: the salient feature of organizational activities in Chinese villages
Nanae Yamada
PART III CONCLUSION
9. Propositions for understanding local society for rural development
Shinichi Shigetomi
Index