Breaking the Chains: Collective Action for Social Justice Among the Rural Poor of Bangladesh
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Shows how the landless poor of Bangladesh have worked to determine their own future, independent of the existing power structure. Demonstrates effective organizing by the landless, the results of their action, and thoughts on the way forward.
Geoffrey Wood
Geof Wood is an Emeritus Professor of International Development at the University of Bath, UK. He was the Founder Director of the Institute for International Policy Analysis; Head of Department of Economics and International Development; Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; University Research Adviser, ex-Chair of Board of INTRAC, Oxford, and ex-President of the UK Development Studies Association. Dr.Wood arrived in Bangladesh in 1974. Since then, he conducted ethnographic and inter-disciplinary research on aspects of agrarian change, poverty, governance, and civil society in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and elsewhere, examining theories of insecurity, Faustian bargains, access, welfare regimes, strategies of de-clientelisation, extreme poverty and resilience, and de-peasantisation. He promotes the understanding of political economy via analysis of deep structures.
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