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Participatory Development: From Advocacy to Action

Authors:

1995

Abstract

A collection of case studies presented to a seminar on participatory development organised by the OECD Development Centre. The papers reflect the authors' wide range of experience in NGOs, bilateral and multilateral agencies, and other organisations.

Publisher

OECDS

Paris

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An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance

Authors:

Hobart, Mark (ed.)

1993

Abstract

This book challenges the Utopian view of western knowledge as uniquely successful in its application to economic and social development. Making use of detailed ethnographic case studies, the authors show how western 'experts', by disregarding indigenous knowledge, in favour of an exclusive scientific knowledge, contribute to the growth of ignorance rather than the growth of knowledge.

Publisher

Routledge

London, UK

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/

The Critical Villager: Beyond Community Participation

Authors:

Dudley, Eric

1993

Abstract

This book considers how community-based technical aid can be made more effective and sustainable. Calling for development workers, policy makers and researchers to put themselves in the place of the intended beneficiaries of aid, it suggests concrete principles for action and research. It argues that community-based participatory research and 'transfer of technology' are not rival models of development but complementary components in a sigle process of effective aid.

Publisher

Routledge

London, UK

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/

Power and Participatory Development: Theory and Practice

Authors:

Nelson, Nici

Wright, Susan (eds.)

1995

Abstract

This book looks at the theoretical basis to participatory development work, drawing on related debates in anthropology, development studies and feminism. It attempts to connect theory and practice, presenting case studies of participatory research techniques from sites as far apart as development theatre in Mali and video-making with homeless people in the UK. It then extends the debate by questioning the shifts in power needed if institutions are to operate in a participatory manner.