Daughters of Development - The Stories of Women and the Changing Environment in Thailand

This queer feeling of joy and hope stems from the fact that here is a piece of work from a woman from a `developing' country, who dares to critically appraise the paradigm of `development' which for at least 30-40 years has been the anchor of hope form most people in Asia, Africa and South America. And that she demolishes this anchor, for many reasons, but particularly, because from the perspective of her mother and her motherland, Thailand, development has rather destroyed good life for the majority, above all for women and nature. She shows that `development is plunder.'...