Endogenous Development Theory and Rural Studies in JAPAN

Demographic Transition in Japan and Rural Development

Participatory Rural Development in 1930s Japan: The Economic Rehabilitation Movement

This paper studies an early participatory rural development program implemented during the 1930s in Japan. This program selected several villages each year to draft and implement their own original development plans. I discuss the implications of the features of the program on its effectiveness. A detailed baseline survey conducted by the villagers themselves helped them to objectively diagnose...

Position of Rural Development in Development Plans

In Iran, new centralization characteristic, especially during Pahlavi dynasty, has been convergence and its vast use in bureaucracy. Historical sociological studies have consensus on the issues of centralization, power centralization, and political sovereignty in Iran; however, these issues have some divisional interruptions and different levels of strength in some parts of the history. This es...

Translation Theory and Development Studies

relate translation to development. The second aim fl ows from the fi rst part’s argument that societies emerge out of, among others, complex translational interactions amongst individuals. It will do so by conceptualizing translation from a complexity and emergence point of view and relating this view on emergent semiotics to some of the most recent social research. It will further fulfi ll its...

Space Economy and Rural Development

Despite all initiatives and endeavors, Iran’s rural communities are encountering with challenges regarding the achievement of comprehensive development. Space economy is associated with location distribution of economic activities as well as movement and flow of population, goods, services, and capital. These in turn, would have great impact upon the development level of different settlement in...