Donald W Attwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald W Attwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald W |
| FAMILY NAME | Attwood |
| SIGNATURE | ATTWOOD D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Power And Poverty: Development and Development Projects in the Third World
This book presents case studies concerning the impact of development projects on societies at various levels of affluence and modernization. They demonstrate project variety, and the ecological, economic, political and social contexts within which development is attempted but seldom achieved.
Obituary B.S. Baviskar, 1930–2013
Big is ugly? How large-scale institutions prevent famines in Western India
State vs. Local Control in Common Resource Management: A Comparative Analysis
Dans la gestion des ressources communes dans le cadre d'un developpement durable, les cooperatives representent un moyen terme entre la privatisation des sols et la mainmise de l'Etat. L'A. compare 2 types de cooperatives : (type A) celles gerees par des exploitants locaux et (type B) celles gerees par des fonctionnaires d'Etat. L'etude porte sur divers criteres : durabilite, efficacite, attractivite, innovation, apport pour la communaute. Bien q…
Economic Anthropology
Power and Poverty: Development and Development Projects in the Third World
This book presents case studies concerning the impact of development projects on societies at various levels of affluence and modernization. They demonstrate project variety, and the ecological, economic, political and social contexts within which development is attempted but seldom achieved
Who Shares: Co-operatives and Rural Development
The case studies assembled in this volume attempt to provide the material for comparative research into the ways co-operatives in Third World countries have functioned, and to analyze the reasons for the outstanding success as well as for the innumerable failures in this area. The book is divided into four sections, the themes of which overlap. The first section studies the problems of co-operatives in stratified societies, and whether co-operati…
Does competition help co‐operation
Co‐operative sugar factories in western India are economically successful even though rife with factional politics. Since they are not heavily subsidised, what makes them operate efficiently? Political competition between elected leaders of neighbouring factories drives them to compete economically. This in turn drives them to expand, innovate and diversify production. Nothing in the standard rhetoric of co‐operation explains this tendency toward…
Irrigation and imperialism: The causes and consequences of a shift from subsistence to cash cropping
Dependency theorists and others have suggested that villagers in British India were compelled to grow cash crops under canal irrigation and this made them more vulnerable to famines. Evidence on cropping patterns in western India c. 1900 shows that cultivators had good technical reasons for not irrigating subsistence crops. In response to fiscal pressures and cultivators’ choices, the government turned from a policy favouring subsistence crop irr…
Study of cooperatives in India: Approaches and methods
Peasants versus Capitalists in the Indian Sugar Industry: The Impact of the Irrigation Frontier
Has the organization of commercial agriculture in the Third World been shaped primarily by external forces from the world economy? This study of sugar production in northern and western India shows that industrialists were generally unable to impose a plantation system on the local peasantry, despite the great technical and economic advantages of doing so. Control of the land, in most cases, did not pass into the hands of industrialists. The orga…
Rural co-operatives in India: A Comparative Analysis of Their Economic Survival and Social Impact
Cultural/Applied: Caste and Other Inequities: Essays on Inequality. Gerald D. Berreman
Class and conflict in an Indian village
Miriam Sharma. The Politics of Inequality: Competition and Control in an Indian Village. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1978. xvii + 258 pp. Map, figures, charts, tables, glossary, bibliography, photographs and index. $9.50, paper. Asian Studies at Hawaii, No. 22
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer: Economic Change and Mobility in Rural Western India [and Comments]
To the extent that peasants, particularly Indian peasants, are ever considered to be economically mobile, they are generally seen from one of two perspectives: either the Malthusian perspective, which predicts that most landholdings will shrink over time, due to partitioning among multiple heirs; or the Marxian perspective, which predicts that a few landholdings will increase in size at the expense of the vast majority-the latter diminishing, in …
Conflict Cycles: The Interaction of Local and Regional Politics in India
Elite Politics in Rural India: Political Stratification and Political Alliances in Western Maharashtra
Patrons and Mobilizers: Political Entrepreneurs in an Agrarian State
To understand the patron we need to understand his competitor, the group mobilizer. Data from western India reveal that the activities of these two types of political entrepreneur are closely interconnected. The argument shows that exclusive concentration on the patron-client dyad overlooks the crucial supportive and alternative alliances which the actors must also manipulate. The mutual feedback between entrepreneurship and social change can be …
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer: Economic Change and Mobility in Rural Western India [and Comments]
To the extent that peasants, particularly Indian peasants, are ever considered to be economically mobile, they are generally seen from one of two perspectives: either the Malthusian perspective, which predicts that most landholdings will shrink over time, due to partitioning among multiple heirs; or the Marxian perspective, which predicts that a few landholdings will increase in size at the expense of the vast majority-the latter diminishing, in …
Rural co-operatives in India: A Comparative Analysis of Their Economic Survival and Social Impact
Peasants versus Capitalists in the Indian Sugar Industry: The Impact of the Irrigation Frontier
Has the organization of commercial agriculture in the Third World been shaped primarily by external forces from the world economy? This study of sugar production in northern and western India shows that industrialists were generally unable to impose a plantation system on the local peasantry, despite the great technical and economic advantages of doing so. Control of the land, in most cases, did not pass into the hands of industrialists. The orga…
Cultural/Applied: Caste and Other Inequities: Essays on Inequality. Gerald D. Berreman
Conflict Cycles: The Interaction of Local and Regional Politics in India
Big is ugly? How large-scale institutions prevent famines in Western India
Elite Politics in Rural India: Political Stratification and Political Alliances in Western Maharashtra
Patrons and Mobilizers: Political Entrepreneurs in an Agrarian State
To understand the patron we need to understand his competitor, the group mobilizer. Data from western India reveal that the activities of these two types of political entrepreneur are closely interconnected. The argument shows that exclusive concentration on the patron-client dyad overlooks the crucial supportive and alternative alliances which the actors must also manipulate. The mutual feedback between entrepreneurship and social change can be …
Patrons and Mobilizers: Political Entrepreneurs in an Agrarian State
To understand the patron we need to understand his competitor, the group mobilizer. Data from western India reveal that the activities of these two types of political entrepreneur are closely interconnected. The argument shows that exclusive concentration on the patron-client dyad overlooks the crucial supportive and alternative alliances which the actors must also manipulate. The mutual feedback between entrepreneurship and social change can be …
Elite Politics in Rural India: Political Stratification and Political Alliances in Western Maharashtra
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer: Economic Change and Mobility in Rural Western India [and Comments]
To the extent that peasants, particularly Indian peasants, are ever considered to be economically mobile, they are generally seen from one of two perspectives: either the Malthusian perspective, which predicts that most landholdings will shrink over time, due to partitioning among multiple heirs; or the Marxian perspective, which predicts that a few landholdings will increase in size at the expense of the vast majority-the latter diminishing, in …
Conflict Cycles: The Interaction of Local and Regional Politics in India
Class and conflict in an Indian village
Miriam Sharma. The Politics of Inequality: Competition and Control in an Indian Village. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1978. xvii + 258 pp. Map, figures, charts, tables, glossary, bibliography, photographs and index. $9.50, paper. Asian Studies at Hawaii, No. 22
Cultural/Applied: Caste and Other Inequities: Essays on Inequality. Gerald D. Berreman
Rural co-operatives in India: A Comparative Analysis of Their Economic Survival and Social Impact
Peasants versus Capitalists in the Indian Sugar Industry: The Impact of the Irrigation Frontier
Has the organization of commercial agriculture in the Third World been shaped primarily by external forces from the world economy? This study of sugar production in northern and western India shows that industrialists were generally unable to impose a plantation system on the local peasantry, despite the great technical and economic advantages of doing so. Control of the land, in most cases, did not pass into the hands of industrialists. The orga…
Irrigation and imperialism: The causes and consequences of a shift from subsistence to cash cropping
Dependency theorists and others have suggested that villagers in British India were compelled to grow cash crops under canal irrigation and this made them more vulnerable to famines. Evidence on cropping patterns in western India c. 1900 shows that cultivators had good technical reasons for not irrigating subsistence crops. In response to fiscal pressures and cultivators’ choices, the government turned from a policy favouring subsistence crop irr…
Study of cooperatives in India: Approaches and methods
Does competition help co‐operation
Co‐operative sugar factories in western India are economically successful even though rife with factional politics. Since they are not heavily subsidised, what makes them operate efficiently? Political competition between elected leaders of neighbouring factories drives them to compete economically. This in turn drives them to expand, innovate and diversify production. Nothing in the standard rhetoric of co‐operation explains this tendency toward…
Power and Poverty: Development and Development Projects in the Third World
This book presents case studies concerning the impact of development projects on societies at various levels of affluence and modernization. They demonstrate project variety, and the ecological, economic, political and social contexts within which development is attempted but seldom achieved
Who Shares: Co-operatives and Rural Development
The case studies assembled in this volume attempt to provide the material for comparative research into the ways co-operatives in Third World countries have functioned, and to analyze the reasons for the outstanding success as well as for the innumerable failures in this area. The book is divided into four sections, the themes of which overlap. The first section studies the problems of co-operatives in stratified societies, and whether co-operati…
Economic Anthropology
State vs. Local Control in Common Resource Management: A Comparative Analysis
Dans la gestion des ressources communes dans le cadre d'un developpement durable, les cooperatives representent un moyen terme entre la privatisation des sols et la mainmise de l'Etat. L'A. compare 2 types de cooperatives : (type A) celles gerees par des exploitants locaux et (type B) celles gerees par des fonctionnaires d'Etat. L'etude porte sur divers criteres : durabilite, efficacite, attractivite, innovation, apport pour la communaute. Bien q…
Big is ugly? How large-scale institutions prevent famines in Western India
Obituary B.S. Baviskar, 1930–2013
Power And Poverty: Development and Development Projects in the Third World
This book presents case studies concerning the impact of development projects on societies at various levels of affluence and modernization. They demonstrate project variety, and the ecological, economic, political and social contexts within which development is attempted but seldom achieved.
Economics (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Indian Economic and Social Development (4 works)