Richard W Franke
Biographic Data
| ID | 208399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard W Franke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard W |
| FAMILY NAME | Franke |
| SIGNATURE | FRANKE R W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Life Is a Little Better
Life Is A Little Better: Redistribution As a Development Strategy in Nadur Village, Kerala
This ethnography of Nadur Village explores the ramifications of Kerala State's policy of wealth redistribution to achieve equality. The author shows a decline in income inequality and an improved quality of life for most villagers despite high unemployment, low incomes and the persistence of inequalities that redistribution has not overcome. This e
Democracy at Work in an Indian Industrial Cooperative: The Story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi
The authors tell the story of a democratic workers' cooperative that makes hand-rolled cigarettes, known as "beedis," in the unorganized sector of a fiercely competitive capitalist economy in India. For decades, beedi workers have been among the most exploited and impoverished of India's work force. In 1969, in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala, several thousand workers banded together to form a worker-owned beedi cooperative. The authors a…
Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster
Collective Mastery in Kerala
The international conference on democratic decentralization
From 23 to 28 May 2000, 2,762 academics, officials, and activists participated in the International Conference on Democratic Decentralization, held in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The conference was organized by the Kerala State Planning Board as part of an attempt to evaluate the experience of four years of the People's Campaign for the Ninth Plan, Kerala's extensive experiment in local democracy and decentralized planning as mechanisms fo…
The Kerala model of development A debate (Part 1)
BCAS has invited noted Kerala scholars to comment on the critical position regarding the "Kerala model of development" that Joseph Tharamangalam articulated in his article in the January-March 1998 issue of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (Vol. 30, No. 1), "The Perils of Social Development without Economic Growth: The Development Debacle of Kerala, India," The responses will be published in two installments. Part 1 appears below; part 2 …
From anti-feudalism to sustainable development: The Kerala Peoples Science Movement
People's science movements (PSMs) have become an important but little studied recent phenomenon in India. Originating in anticaste thinking of the 1950s, PSMs attempt to popularize nonmystical, scientific thinking, especially among India's rural poor. Many PSMs have evolved into significant centers of activism against social inequality and for environmental protection. The original and largest PSM in India is Kerala's KSSP, with more than 50,000 …
Promoting participation—Seeking sustainability: The ITK Dilemma
Moock, Joyce Lewinger and Robert E. Rhoades, eds. Diversity, Farmer Knowledge, and Sustainability. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. xix + 278 pp. including index. $49.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. Pottier, Johan, ed. Practising Development: Social Science Perspectives. London: Routledge, 1993. ix + 222 pp. including index. $18.95 paper. Thurston, H. David. Sustainable Practices for Plant Disease Management in Traditional Farming Systems. Boulder…
The International Congress on Kerala Studies
The International Congress on Kerala Studies." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 26(3), pp. 72–73 Additional informationNotes on contributorsBarbara H. ChasinBarbara H. Chasin and Richard W. Franke teach sociology and anthropology, respectively, at Montclair State University in New Jersey, U.S.A. They are coauthors of Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State
Kerala: Radical reform as development in an Indian state
Land Reform versus Inequality in Nadur Village, Kerala
Kerala's 1969 land reform law abolished tenancy in both rice land and house compound plots. Using a household survey in the central Kerala village of Nadur from 1971 (just before the reform was implemented), this paper examines the reform's effects by 1987 on a restudy of 170 households. Among the major consequences of the reform are: abolition of landlord and tenant classes, reduction in land ownership and income inequality as measured by the Gi…
Reply to K.T. Ram Mohan
K.T. Ram Mohan takes issue with several points in our article, "Kerala State, India: Radical Reform as Development" (MR, January 1991). Mohan contends that Kerala still suffers from being part of the capitalist world. We agree and never claimed otherwise. We did argue that Kerala lifted millions out of the misery and degradation of a feudal land system by abolishing tenancy. We argued that other reforms overcame some of the worst effects of pover…
Kerala State, India: Radical Reform as Development
Redistribution of wealth, provision of basic necessities, and popular involvement in the political process are the hallmarks of a remarkable radical attempt at social change in Kerala state on the southwest coast of India.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Applied Anthropology: Agricultural Sustainability in a Changing World Order. Gordon K. Douglas
Food and famine: Looking for answers
White, Philip, and Nancy Selvey, eds. Current Topics in Nutrition and Disease, Volume 10: Malnutrition—Determinants and Consequences. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1984. xvi + 494 pp. including references, index. $96.00 cloth. Robson, John R. K., ed. Famine: Its Causes, Effects, and Management. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1981. x + 170 pp. including photographs, references, index. $30.95 cloth
Tuareg of West Africa: Five Experiments in Fourth World Development
More on Geertz's Interpretive Theory
Indonesia: A short review
“Seven workers from Hotel Bali Hyatt were brought to trial, accused of having organised a strike.... Eighty workers from Hotel La Taverna Bali were arbitrarily dismissed.... One hundred and fifty-workers from PT Putra Sijati spinning mill went to the House of People's Representatives (Indonesian National Parliament) after eight of their fellow workers had been arbitrarily dismissed.... 65% of the employees at the American Club in Jakarta struck t…
East Timor: The responsibility of the United States
In the preamble to the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples, there is invoked both a spirit of hope and a sense of despair. The hope derives from the rising tide of liberation movements and the consequent emancipation of millions of the most oppressed and downtrodden peoples of the world, along with the inspiration which the most successful movements have given to those who still live under the domination of foreign interests
Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel
Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel
Deux visions de la famine au Sahel / Two Views on the Famine in the Sahel
East Timor: Physical and Cultural Genocide
Books to review
Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel
Land Reform versus Inequality in Nadur Village, Kerala
Kerala's 1969 land reform law abolished tenancy in both rice land and house compound plots. Using a household survey in the central Kerala village of Nadur from 1971 (just before the reform was implemented), this paper examines the reform's effects by 1987 on a restudy of 170 households. Among the major consequences of the reform are: abolition of landlord and tenant classes, reduction in land ownership and income inequality as measured by the Gi…
From anti-feudalism to sustainable development: The Kerala Peoples Science Movement
People's science movements (PSMs) have become an important but little studied recent phenomenon in India. Originating in anticaste thinking of the 1950s, PSMs attempt to popularize nonmystical, scientific thinking, especially among India's rural poor. Many PSMs have evolved into significant centers of activism against social inequality and for environmental protection. The original and largest PSM in India is Kerala's KSSP, with more than 50,000 …
More on Geertz's Interpretive Theory
Limited good and cargo cult in Indonesian Economic Development
Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster
The Kerala model of development A debate (Part 1)
BCAS has invited noted Kerala scholars to comment on the critical position regarding the "Kerala model of development" that Joseph Tharamangalam articulated in his article in the January-March 1998 issue of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (Vol. 30, No. 1), "The Perils of Social Development without Economic Growth: The Development Debacle of Kerala, India," The responses will be published in two installments. Part 1 appears below; part 2 …
Kerala State, India: Radical Reform as Development
Redistribution of wealth, provision of basic necessities, and popular involvement in the political process are the hallmarks of a remarkable radical attempt at social change in Kerala state on the southwest coast of India.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Tuareg of West Africa: Five Experiments in Fourth World Development
East Timor: Physical and Cultural Genocide
The ecology bomb
Anne Ehrlich, Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren. Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1973. Graphs, charts, maps, figures, tables, appendix, and index. $4.75
Limited good and cargo cult in Indonesian Economic Development
The ecology bomb
Anne Ehrlich, Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren. Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1973. Graphs, charts, maps, figures, tables, appendix, and index. $4.75
Imperialism and dependence
“Indonesia [is] endowed ... with what is probably the most strategically authoritative geographic location on earth ...” So wrote Lawrence Griswold in Sea Power, the official journal of the Navy League of the United States in 1973. A nation so located, and with 130 million people, some of the world's richest deposits of oil, tin, bauxite, rubber, forestry reserves, and many other natural resources, is surely a place of major concern to the imperi…
East timor-nationalism and colonialism
On November 25, 1975, one of the last of Portugal's colonial territories declared itself the independent Democratic Republic of East Timor. On December 7, 1975, 4,000-6,000 Indonesian troops landed in the capital of the country. So began a major military and political struggle that continues to this day as a nation of 950,000 people resist the forced annexation and incorporation into a nation of 130 million. Despite massive supplies of United Sta…
Books to review
Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel
Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel
Deux visions de la famine au Sahel / Two Views on the Famine in the Sahel
East Timor: Physical and Cultural Genocide
Indonesia: A short review
“Seven workers from Hotel Bali Hyatt were brought to trial, accused of having organised a strike.... Eighty workers from Hotel La Taverna Bali were arbitrarily dismissed.... One hundred and fifty-workers from PT Putra Sijati spinning mill went to the House of People's Representatives (Indonesian National Parliament) after eight of their fellow workers had been arbitrarily dismissed.... 65% of the employees at the American Club in Jakarta struck t…
East Timor: The responsibility of the United States
In the preamble to the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples, there is invoked both a spirit of hope and a sense of despair. The hope derives from the rising tide of liberation movements and the consequent emancipation of millions of the most oppressed and downtrodden peoples of the world, along with the inspiration which the most successful movements have given to those who still live under the domination of foreign interests
Tuareg of West Africa: Five Experiments in Fourth World Development
More on Geertz's Interpretive Theory
Applied Anthropology: Agricultural Sustainability in a Changing World Order. Gordon K. Douglas
Food and famine: Looking for answers
White, Philip, and Nancy Selvey, eds. Current Topics in Nutrition and Disease, Volume 10: Malnutrition—Determinants and Consequences. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1984. xvi + 494 pp. including references, index. $96.00 cloth. Robson, John R. K., ed. Famine: Its Causes, Effects, and Management. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1981. x + 170 pp. including photographs, references, index. $30.95 cloth
Reply to K.T. Ram Mohan
K.T. Ram Mohan takes issue with several points in our article, "Kerala State, India: Radical Reform as Development" (MR, January 1991). Mohan contends that Kerala still suffers from being part of the capitalist world. We agree and never claimed otherwise. We did argue that Kerala lifted millions out of the misery and degradation of a feudal land system by abolishing tenancy. We argued that other reforms overcame some of the worst effects of pover…
Kerala State, India: Radical Reform as Development
Redistribution of wealth, provision of basic necessities, and popular involvement in the political process are the hallmarks of a remarkable radical attempt at social change in Kerala state on the southwest coast of India.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Land Reform versus Inequality in Nadur Village, Kerala
Kerala's 1969 land reform law abolished tenancy in both rice land and house compound plots. Using a household survey in the central Kerala village of Nadur from 1971 (just before the reform was implemented), this paper examines the reform's effects by 1987 on a restudy of 170 households. Among the major consequences of the reform are: abolition of landlord and tenant classes, reduction in land ownership and income inequality as measured by the Gi…
The International Congress on Kerala Studies
The International Congress on Kerala Studies." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 26(3), pp. 72–73 Additional informationNotes on contributorsBarbara H. ChasinBarbara H. Chasin and Richard W. Franke teach sociology and anthropology, respectively, at Montclair State University in New Jersey, U.S.A. They are coauthors of Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State
Kerala: Radical reform as development in an Indian state
Promoting participation—Seeking sustainability: The ITK Dilemma
Moock, Joyce Lewinger and Robert E. Rhoades, eds. Diversity, Farmer Knowledge, and Sustainability. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. xix + 278 pp. including index. $49.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. Pottier, Johan, ed. Practising Development: Social Science Perspectives. London: Routledge, 1993. ix + 222 pp. including index. $18.95 paper. Thurston, H. David. Sustainable Practices for Plant Disease Management in Traditional Farming Systems. Boulder…
From anti-feudalism to sustainable development: The Kerala Peoples Science Movement
People's science movements (PSMs) have become an important but little studied recent phenomenon in India. Originating in anticaste thinking of the 1950s, PSMs attempt to popularize nonmystical, scientific thinking, especially among India's rural poor. Many PSMs have evolved into significant centers of activism against social inequality and for environmental protection. The original and largest PSM in India is Kerala's KSSP, with more than 50,000 …
The Kerala model of development A debate (Part 1)
BCAS has invited noted Kerala scholars to comment on the critical position regarding the "Kerala model of development" that Joseph Tharamangalam articulated in his article in the January-March 1998 issue of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (Vol. 30, No. 1), "The Perils of Social Development without Economic Growth: The Development Debacle of Kerala, India," The responses will be published in two installments. Part 1 appears below; part 2 …
The international conference on democratic decentralization
From 23 to 28 May 2000, 2,762 academics, officials, and activists participated in the International Conference on Democratic Decentralization, held in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The conference was organized by the Kerala State Planning Board as part of an attempt to evaluate the experience of four years of the People's Campaign for the Ninth Plan, Kerala's extensive experiment in local democracy and decentralized planning as mechanisms fo…
Collective Mastery in Kerala
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