Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
Patrick Barron, Michael Woolcock, and Rachel Diprose, Contesting Development: Participatory Projects and Local Conflicts Dynamics in Indonesia and#160;is co-winner of the 2012 ASA Sociology of Development Section Faculty Book Award
About the Author
Patrick Barron, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, was for seven years the manager of World Bankand#8217;s Conflict and Development program in Indonesia. Rachael Diprose holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford andand#160;has worked in development research, policy, and programming around the world. Michael Woolcock is senior social scientist, Development Research Group, World Bank.