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Contesting Development: Participatory Projects and Local Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia

Name: Contesting Development: Participatory Projects and Local Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia
Author: Patrick Barron
ISBN: 9780300168488

by Patrick Barron, Michael Woolcock, Rachael Diprose

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Overview

This pathbreaking book analyzes a highly successful participatory development program in Indonesia, exploring its distinctive origins and design principles and its impacts on local conflict dynamics and social institutions.

About the Author, Patrick Barron

Patrick Barron, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, was for seven years the manager of World Bank’s Conflict and Development program in Indonesia. Rachael Diprose holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has worked in development research, policy, and programming around the world. Michael Woolcock is senior social scientist, Development Research Group, World Bank.

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American Sociological Association

Patrick Barron, Michael Woolcock, and Rachel Diprose, Contesting Development: Participatory Projects and Local Conflicts Dynamics in Indonesia is co-winner of the 2012 ASA Sociology of Development Section Faculty Book Award

— Sociology of Development Section Faculty Book Award co-winner