Richard W. Franke
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
- Homepage of Richard W. Franke at Montclair State University
- Short curriculum vitae of Franke (PDF; 38 kB)
- Discussion between Franke and A. Sen in the New York Review of Books, 1991
- Franke's page about student skills (PDF; 54 kB)
- Brochure about "Eco-Settlements" with a contribution by Richard W. Franke about Eco Village at Ithaca (PDF; 4.9 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ see overview of publications at http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~franker/frankepaperskerala.htm
- ↑ see http://www.geo.coop/node/617 Everyday and Spontaneous Cooperatives in an Ecovillage
- ↑ 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
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franke, Richard W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Franke, Richard William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |