Monthly Archives: January 2014

On “The Will to Improve”

Tania Li wrote a book, The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (published in 2007, Durham University Press), which I have meant to read for some  time.  Her fieldwork was in Sulawesi, very relevant for my … Continue reading

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A New Year’s Resolution – 2014

Waking up on the first day of a new year, I remembered a thought that came to me yesterday. I was thinking about the changes that have happened in terms of women’s options during my own lifetime. We (in the … Continue reading

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