The Will to Improve
Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23399271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tania Murray Li (0000-0003-3360-8146, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 392 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics, Mabel Sabogal, 2009 |
| Venue | Will to Improve (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/9780822389781 |
| OpenAlex | W4237051774 |
| Open Library | OL29605461M |
| ISBN | 9780822389781 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1.251 |
Business · Ayn Rand and Brontë studies · Computer Science · Education, Philosophy, and Society · Educational Leadership and Practices · 338.9598/4 · Economic development · Economic policy · Hd82 .l483 2007 · Indonesia · Political activity · Political aspects · Political planning · Political science · Social policy
Participatory mapping and Nature's Contributions to People
Restoration policies and the ‘travelling model’ of the Great Green Wall in Ethiopia's Tigray region
Development at borderlands
Ethnography of/with neighbors
The Politics of Participation in Colombia’s Peace Agreement
Domesticating disruption
The necro-legal form of carbon markets
Decolonising development practice from the classroom through “engaged reflexivity”
Who is a construction worker? Bureaucratic arbitrariness, entrepreneurial unions and performances of eligibility in Delhi
Beyond Ritual Loss
Bodies, Stereotypes, and Reproduction
The Outsiders
Living with dust
The Nature of Men
Divided Loyalties
Labour Lines and Colonial Power
Unfair Trade
Beyond transparency
Social-ecological systems, social diversity, and power
Food as a daily art
Discursive barriers and cross-scale forest governance in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Global environmental change
Transforming conflicts from the bottom-up? Reflections on civil society efforts to empower marginalized fishers in postwar Sri Lanka
How is global climate policy interpreted on the ground? Insights from the analysis of local discourses about forest management and Redd+ in Indonesia
Ten Years on
How do environmental impact assessments fail to prevent social conflict? Government technologies in a dam project in Colombia
Examining the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) action plan in Ghana through a governmentality lens
Gentlemen-type rules" and "back room deals" in public participation
The political logics of EU-FLEGT in Thailand's multistakeholder negotiations
Hidden Alliances
Assembling prevention
Calculating ‘climate migrants
What Challenges for Global Development Research are Posed by a More Decolonial Approach? Colonial Genealogies and Responses
The Developmental Politics of Land Conflict Resolution
On Cynicism
Framed by Freedom
If No Gasoline, No Water
Ambivalent outcomes of statebuilding
Att energigemenskapa
Gardens of hope
Conservation, tenure and politics of access
Large-scale Mines and Local-level Politics
Political Factors in the Growth of Social Assistance
The Gendered Politics of Securing Inclusive Development
Governing Natural Resources for Inclusive Development
The Political Determinants of Economic Growth
Exploring the Politics of Inclusive Development
Ethnicity, State Capacity, and Development
The Politics—and Process—of Rule of Law Systems in Developmental States
China in Africa
The Politics of What Works for the Poor in Public Expenditure and Taxation
The Politics of Aid Revisited
The Politics of What Works in Service Delivery
The Politics of Poverty
Forest Governance in Latin America
Governance and Development
Political Ecology
Biopower
Decolonization and the Gendered Politics of Developmental Labor in Southeastern Africa
Christians and Spices
Improving visions, troubled landscapes
Geographic Imaginaries in Dispute in Northern Patagonia
What kind of governance for what kind of equity? Towards a theorization of justice in water governance
The Politics of Sustainability and Development
Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change
Introduction “the Rot Remains”
Securing a Just Space for Small-Scale Fisheries in the Blue Economy
Hegemony through inclusion
ICH does not have to be nostalgic
D/Developments after the Meltdown
Trading with God
Religion and the Politics of Development
Charity Rankings
The Myth of Religious NGOs
Social Investment According to the OECD/Delsa
Introduction
Governmentalization of the Kazakhstani State
Desiring Bureaucracy
Precarious Placemaking
The Anthropology of International Development
Refugee Politics
Technical Fixes as Challenges to State Legitimacy
To shame or not to shame—that is the sanitation question
The Chinese ‘Developmental State 3.0’ and the resilience of authoritarianism
Q-Squared. Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis
Historicizing the carbon forest
Community Driven Development and Structural Disadvantage
Planetary Improvement
Planning and the 'stubborn realities' of global south-east cities
Seeing and Doing Conservation Differently
Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities
“An island of the Third World”? Decolonization, solidarity and the critique of development during the long Sixties at the Institut Africain de Genève
Vernacular bureaucracies and the discursive constitution of a Bengali region
Legal Recognition and Governance in Practice
Rethinking development beyond postcolonial discourses
Power, policy, and practice
Environmental Anthropology
Development as modernisation
Researching Teacher Well-Being in Protracted Crises
Schooling as Plantation
| Unique citing works | 1.251 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 65,84 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1.210 |