The ways we understand processes of agrarian change are pressing issues for policy makers and development practitioners. Interpreting changes in two agrarian societies in India and Indonesia, the author reveals how transformations to self are critical factors shaping change, as well as under-recognized consequences of development initiatives.

Decentring Development is an important and interesting theoretical contribution to this pragmatic and oft-repeated question. This reviewer enjoyed the critical observations and analysis of development in this book. Jakimow makes a strong case for the extension of critical and decentred approaches into donor-funded development research. I would suggest that development practitioners are surprisingly reflexive about their profession and would welcome Decentring Development . (Melissa Johnston, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 46 (3), 2016)

Autorentext
Tanya Jakimow is Senior Lecturer and DECRA Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She has published in the fields of livelihoods, agrarian change, and NGOs in India and Indonesia. Her most recent book Peddlers of Information: Indian NGOs in the Information Age was published in 2012.

Inhalt
Introduction PART I: Rethinking social change through the development actor 1. Centring the Self-in-Process 2. The Institutional Landscape PART II: Understanding agrarian societies in research for development 3. Livelihood Pathways 4. Self in Transit PART III: Recognising the unintended consequences of development 5. The State and the Self 6. Moral Spaces of Development Conclusion