Author: Howard Keva Kaufman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Socio-economic Factors in Farmer Response to Irrigation in Northeast Thailand
Author: Howard Keva Kaufman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Armed with Expertise
Author: Joy Rohde
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801469600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations. Yet the controversy it inspired was not new. Decades earlier, similar national security concerns brought the Department of Defense and American social scientists together in the search for intellectual weapons that could combat the spread of communism during the Cold War. In Armed with Expertise, Joy Rohde traces the optimistic rise, anguished fall, and surprising rebirth of Cold War–era military-sponsored social research. Seeking expert knowledge that would enable the United States to contain communism, the Pentagon turned to social scientists. Beginning in the 1950s, political scientists, social psychologists, and anthropologists optimistically applied their expertise to military problems, convinced that their work would enhance democracy around the world. As Rohde shows, by the late 1960s, a growing number of scholars and activists condemned Pentagon-funded social scientists as handmaidens of a technocratic warfare state and sought to eliminate military-sponsored research from American intellectual life. But the Pentagon's social research projects had remarkable institutional momentum and intellectual flexibility. Instead of severing their ties to the military, the Pentagon’s experts relocated to a burgeoning network of private consulting agencies and for-profit research offices. Now shielded from public scrutiny, they continued to influence national security affairs. They also diversified their portfolios to include the study of domestic problems, including urban violence and racial conflict. In examining the controversies over Cold War social science, Rohde reveals the persistent militarization of American political and intellectual life, a phenomenon that continues to raise grave questions about the relationship between expert knowledge and American democracy.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801469600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations. Yet the controversy it inspired was not new. Decades earlier, similar national security concerns brought the Department of Defense and American social scientists together in the search for intellectual weapons that could combat the spread of communism during the Cold War. In Armed with Expertise, Joy Rohde traces the optimistic rise, anguished fall, and surprising rebirth of Cold War–era military-sponsored social research. Seeking expert knowledge that would enable the United States to contain communism, the Pentagon turned to social scientists. Beginning in the 1950s, political scientists, social psychologists, and anthropologists optimistically applied their expertise to military problems, convinced that their work would enhance democracy around the world. As Rohde shows, by the late 1960s, a growing number of scholars and activists condemned Pentagon-funded social scientists as handmaidens of a technocratic warfare state and sought to eliminate military-sponsored research from American intellectual life. But the Pentagon's social research projects had remarkable institutional momentum and intellectual flexibility. Instead of severing their ties to the military, the Pentagon’s experts relocated to a burgeoning network of private consulting agencies and for-profit research offices. Now shielded from public scrutiny, they continued to influence national security affairs. They also diversified their portfolios to include the study of domestic problems, including urban violence and racial conflict. In examining the controversies over Cold War social science, Rohde reveals the persistent militarization of American political and intellectual life, a phenomenon that continues to raise grave questions about the relationship between expert knowledge and American democracy.
Bibliography on Socio-economic Aspects of Irrigation in Asia
Author: International Rice Research Institute
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Catalogue of Research Literature for Development: Food production and nutrition, development and economics, education and human resources, health, selected development areas
Author: United States. Agency for International Development. Bureau for Technical Assistance
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Social and Institutional Factors in Differential Access to Canal Irrigation
Author: Maria Concepcion Cruz
Publisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Publisher:
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Farmers
Author: Achara Kuwinpant
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Annals
Author: Association for Asian Studies. Southeast Conference
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region
Author: François Molle
Publisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849770867
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The water resources of the Mekong river catchment area, from China, through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos to Vietnam, are increasingly contested. Governments, companies and banks are driving new investment in roads, dams, diversions, irrigation schemes, navigation facilities, power plants and other emblems of conventional "development." Their plans and interventions pose multiple burdens and risks to the livelihoods of millions of people dependent on wetlands, floodplains, fisheries and aquatic resources.
Publisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849770867
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The water resources of the Mekong river catchment area, from China, through Thailand, Cambodia and Laos to Vietnam, are increasingly contested. Governments, companies and banks are driving new investment in roads, dams, diversions, irrigation schemes, navigation facilities, power plants and other emblems of conventional "development." Their plans and interventions pose multiple burdens and risks to the livelihoods of millions of people dependent on wetlands, floodplains, fisheries and aquatic resources.
Rural Development
Author:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Market-oriented Crop Diversification and Regional Development in Northeast Thailand
Author: Peter Traub
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural diversification
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural diversification
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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