Richard W. Franke

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Richard William Franke (* 1944 ) is an American anthropologist and ethnologist . Among other things, Franke wrote important papers on the Sahel zone and the Indian state of Kerala . He is now Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Montclair State University .

Life

Franke graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree and received his PhD from Harvard in 1972 with a thesis on the Green Revolution in a Javanese village ( The Green revolution in a Javanese village ). From 1972 until his retirement in 2009 he was a faculty member at Montclair State University in Montclair , New Jersey . Franke has written numerous articles, especially on Kerala, together with the sociologist Barbara H. Chasin.

Franke is a resident and member of the administration of "Ecovillage at Ithaca", an eco-settlement near the city of Ithaca in New York State.

Publications (selection)

  • (with Barbara H Chasin): Seeds of Famine. Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel , Universe, New York 1980 (Series: LandMark Studies).

Monographs on Kerala

  • (with Srikumar Chattopadhyay): Striving for Sustainability: Environmental Stress and Democratic Initiatives in Kerala . New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company 2006
  • (with Thomas TM Isaac): Local Democracy and Development: The People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning in Kerala . 2002 (edition in India 2000).
  • (with Thomas TM Isaac and Raghavan Pyaralal): Democracy at Work in an Indian Industrial Cooperative: The Story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi . Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
  • (with Barbara H. Chasin): Kerala: radical reform as development in an Indian state . 2nd edition, Oakland, California: Food First, 1994.
  • Life is a little better: redistribution as a development strategy in Nadur village Kerala . 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. see overview of publications at http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~franker/frankepaperskerala.htm
  2. see http://www.geo.coop/node/617 Everyday and Spontaneous Cooperatives in an Ecovillage
  3. A review of the book can be found in SCIENCE: Jeremy Swift: The Problems in the Sahel, in: SCIENCE January 30, 1981, pp. 473–474