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Author Walsh, Susan, 1955-

Title Trojan-horse aid : seeds of resistance and resilience in the Bolivian highlands and beyond / Susan Walsh
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Contents Prologue: When Making Other Plans -- 1 Introduction: Packets of Paradox -- 2 Beyond Donut-Style Research -- 3 Embedded and Invented -- 4 Deep Connections -- 5 Bouncing Back -- 6 Ecological Complementarity -- 7 An Interconnected Web -- 8 Breaking the Balance -- 9 Farmer Proletariat -- 10 Hungry in Body and Spirit -- 11 "Dipstick" Development -- 12 Old Habits Die Hard -- 13 The Monocropping of People, Plants, and Knowledge -- 14 Development with Dignity -- Epilogue: Paradox, Resistance, and Resilience
Summary A frank account about Andean aid that asks development workers to leave their hubris and Western recipes at home
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-307) and index
Subject Agricultural assistance -- Bolivia -- Potosí (Department)
Agriculture -- Bolivia -- Potosí (Department)
Quechua Indians -- Agriculture -- Bolivia -- Potosí (Department)
Peasants -- Bolivia -- Potosí (Department)
Agricultural assistance -- Bolivia -- Potosí
Agriculture -- Bolivia -- Potosí
Quechua Indians -- Agriculture -- Bolivia -- Potosí
Peasants -- Bolivia -- Potosí
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
Agricultural assistance
Agriculture
Peasants
Quechua Indians -- Agriculture
Bolivia -- Potosí
Bolivia -- Potosí (Department)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773544338
077354433X
9780773544345
0773544348
0773596615
9780773596610