Losing Asia : Modernization and the Culture of Development
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Review
"Undoubtedly, this is a remarkable book with its aesthetic beauty of the narrative and critique. A review of such an unique book can only, at best, touch upon its fragments and undoubtedly with less elegance. In fact, this book is to be read and felt." -- Vikash N. Pandey, Contemporary South Asia
""Wallach shows much intellectual courage by confronting difficult dilemmas without resorting to glib antiprogress platitudes..[His] accounts convey the captivating qualities of the Asian landscape, villages, temple grounds, and architecture, and help orient the reader to what is so rapidly being lost. Wallach also clearly outlines the intellectual precedents of what has become the dominant paradigm of development work." -- Professional Geographer
Book Description
"Village landscapes," writes Bret Wallach, "are among the most perfect places on the planet." In this highly engaging account of the aesthetic cost of modernizing the Asian countryside, Wallach presents a dark side of Third World development. Showing through descriptive travelogue where and how so much of the beauty in these rural landscapes has been lost, he nevertheless concludes that there is still much left to protect.
Throughout, Wallach relates the history of rural development in South Asia along with his own observation of the contemporary rural landscape. He provides examples of how new methods of agriculture, irrigation, and community development have brought dramatic transformations to Asia as a whole.
Losing Asia: Modernization and the Culture of Development,Bret Wallach,The Johns Hopkins University Press,080185170X,Asia,Asia - General,General,India,Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.,Rural Economic Development,Rural Sociology,Rural conditions,Rural development,Sociology,Conservation of the environment,Cultural studies,Development studies,TRAVEL & HOLIDAY
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