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This book, like Development, is a tightly packed suitcase of ideas that
we wrote over eight years in more than a dozen places. We worked separately
and only for short periods together, in touch by email daily and
more, and meeting every few months when, over several days, the whole
book would go up on a white board or sheets of butcher paper or café
napkins and notebooks, and all the arguments and cases would be reworked,
more often than not from first principles. We wrote the book around these
meetings: in Manila, Brisbane, Cairns, Thursday Island, Islamabad and
Peshawar, Kampala, Singapore and Hong Kong, Auckland, Mullumbimby,
Napier, Raglan, Phnom Penh and numerous points between. However
others judge the result, it was for both of us a great and polychrome intellectual
adventure, as well as a more personal attempt to make critical sense
of our different working experiences.
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