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