Pursuing Livelihoods, Imagining Development: Smallholders in Highland Lampung, Indonesia

This monograph explores the ways in which people experience 'development' and how development shapes and maintains their lives. The discussion begins with Lampung Province, moves to one of the province's highland regions, and ends in a village in this highland region. Colonial and post-colonial initiatives drove the transformation of Lampung in the twentieth century bringing mixed results and effects including rapid growth in agricultural production, the formation of 'wealthy zones' in some...