Introduction: the problem of self-help
Power and government: a governmentality perspective
Contemporary discourses of self-help
A problematics of government: self-help as discursive practice
Technologies of capacity building: disciplining and regulating conduct
Relations of rule: self-help in Warmington and Woomeroo
Docile bodies? Translating self-help
Conclusion: implications for rural development.
Governing rural development : discourses and practices of self-help in Australian rural policy by Lynda Cheshire. ISBN 9780754640240. Published by Ashgate in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.