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The village as Cold War site: experts, development, and the history of rural reconstruction

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This article examines ‘the village’ as a category of development knowledge used by policymakers and experts to remake the ‘Third World’ during the Cold War. The idea of the village as a universal category of underdevelopment, capable of being remade by expert-led social reform, structured efforts to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of people from Asia to Latin America and Africa. Rooted in a transnational interwar movement for rural reconstruction, village projects were transformed in the 1950s and 1960s by a scientization of development that narrowed the range of experts in the field and by Cold War politics that increasingly tied development to anti-communism and counterinsurgency. From India to Central America, strategic efforts to control rural populations won out over concerns for rural welfare.

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  • Sackley, Nicole, 2011. "The village as Cold War site: experts, development, and the history of rural reconstruction," Journal of Global History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 6(3), pages 481-504, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jglhis:v:6:y:2011:i:03:p:481-504_00
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    1. Michael Philipp Brunner, 2018. "Teaching development: Debates on ‘scientific agriculture’ and ‘rural reconstruction’ at Khalsa College, Amritsar, c. 1915–47," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 55(1), pages 77-132, January.
    2. Arun Kumar, 2022. "Philanthropy and the Making of a New Moral Order: A History of Developing Community," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 177(4), pages 729-741, May.
    3. Xiang Gao & Zao Li & Xia Sun, 2023. "Relevance between Tourist Behavior and the Spatial Environment in Huizhou Traditional Villages—A Case Study of Pingshan Village, Yi County, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-24, March.

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