Community Economies

Katharine McKinnon

Contact Details:

Department of Environment and Geography
Faculty of Science
Macquarie University, NSW 2109
Australia
katharine.mckinnon@mq.edu.au
http://humgeog.mq.edu.au/staff/person.htm?id=kmckinno

Qualifications

PhD (The Australian National University)
BAHons (Victoria University of Wellington)

Research Areas:

Subjectivity and social transformation
Development professionalism and practice
Women's birth experiences and the politics of birth

Publications

Development Professionals in Northern Thailand: Hope, Politics and Practice

Katharine McKinnon

McKinnon, K (2011) Development Professionals in Northern Thailand: Hope, Politics and Practice ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series, published by Singapore University Press in conjunction with University of Hawaii and NIAS.

This book is a critical history of development practice and professionalism in nothern Thailand, exploring how a postdevelopment perspective informed by the work of J.K. Gibson-Graham can shed new light on the nature of development practice and hope for the future.