Postdevelopment, professionalism, and the politics of participation

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 772-785

  Mckinnon, Katharine ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Development practice; Discourse; Hegemony; Southeast Asia; Thailand

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; DEVELOPMENT THEORY; HEGEMONY; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; POWER RELATIONS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 36349029214     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2007.00582.x     Document Type: Article

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