Development encounters : sites of participation and knowledge / edited by Pauline E. Peters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peters, Pauline E.

Series:

Harvard studies in international development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

Economic development--Citizen participation.

Physical Description:

x, 222 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard Institute for International Development : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [2000]

Summary:

The field of development is subject to shifts in paradigms, and it is important to examine systematically how these are realized in actual practice. Two currently favored approaches are participation and indigenous knowledge. In this volume's collected papers, development researchers and practitioners share their ideas and experience on the different forms taken by participation and knowledge, not limited to "indigenous" knowledge, in the practice of development. The "development encounters" they describe took place in sites ranging from villages in the Amazon, India, and southern Africa to research laboratories and corporate boardrooms in central Africa, Latin America, and the United States. This timely and grounded account of participation and knowledge in the front lines will be of interest to a range of practitioners, analysts, and students of development.

Contents:

Encountering participation and knowledge in development sites / Pauline E. Peters

The micro politics of participatory projects : an anatomy of change in two villages / Ajay Mehta

Decentralization, participation, and representation : administrative apartheid in Sahelian forestry / Jesse C. Ribot

New challenges for alternative ways of development among indigenous peoples of the Amazon / Margarita Benavides

Battlefields of wits : interface between NGOs, government, and donors at the development site / Isaac N. Mazonde

The routinization of participation : emerging norms, local participation, and conflict management in Latin America / Theodore Macdonald.

Writing against hegemony : development encounters in Zimbabwe and Malawi / Anne Ferguson and Bill Derman

Developing international health science research : measuring or marginalizing quality / James A. Trostle

Rethinking the role of elites in rural development : a case study from Cameroon / Paul Nchoji Nkwi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-215) and indexes.

ISBN:

0674002598

0674002601

OCLC:

43969156