This overview paper to the volume of Social Change that focuses on participatory pathways summarises the articles in the collection. The articles featured draw on a diverse geography and situations, ranging from health needs in a deprived urban housing estate in the UK, to how local people prioritised problems and envisaged solutions in a north Indian hill station, to participatory research in Zimbabwe and India.
This is a bibliography of relevant readings concerning 'participatory pathways'. Focus areas include agriculture; children; conflict; country profiles; disasters, emergencies and uprooted people; ecology and gender; the elderly; empowerment; environment; food security; forests and parks; gender; going to scale; health; historical approaches; infrastructure; learning and visual literacy; livestock; mapping; poverty; urban settings; watersheds and irrigation. Manuals and toolkits are also highlighted as are readings related to methodology.