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Intimate economies of development : mobility, sexuality and health in Asia /

"Alongside structural and material interventions, emotional engagements are central to processes of social change and the making of selves for those caught up in development's slipstream. This book elaborates this proposition by showing that culture, sexuality and health are inevitably and...

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Main Authors: Lyttleton, Chris (Author)
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Routledge studies in development, mobilities and migration
Subjects:
Sex > Mekong River Region.
Public health > Mekong River Region.
Economic development > Social aspects > Mekong River Region.
Social Conditions > Mekong River Region.
Economics > Mekong River Region.
Economic Development > Mekong River Region.
Emigration and Immigration > Mekong River Region.
Sexual Behavior > Mekong River Region.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics.
Economic development > Social aspects.
Economic history.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Public health.
Sex.
Social history.
Mekong River Region > Social conditions.
Mekong River Region > Economic conditions.
Mekong River Region > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mekong River Region.
Summary: "Alongside structural and material interventions, emotional engagements are central to processes of social change and the making of selves for those caught up in development's slipstream. This book elaborates this proposition by showing that culture, sexuality and health are inevitably and inseparably linked within specific trajectories of modernization in the Greater Mekong Sub-region. It documents ways that rapid economic integration plays itself out in diverse communities through the types of interpersonal relationships promoted by market expansion and spreading neo-liberal sensibilities"--
Carrier Form: xii, 215 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [198]-207) and index.
ISBN: 9780415817738 (hardback) :
0415817730 (hardback)
Index Number: HN690
CLC: F133.04
Call Number: F133.04/L997

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