Revolutions in development inquiry / Robert Chambers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chambers, Robert, 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robert Chambers returns with a new book that reviews, together for the first time, some of the revolutionary changes in the methodologies and methods of development inquiry that have occurred in the past forty years, and reflects on their transformative potential for the future. This book breaks new ground by describing and analysing the evolution of a sequence of approaches. Starting with the dinosaurs of large-scale multi-subject questionnaire surveys, and the biased visits and perceptions of rural development tourism and urban-based professionals, there follows a look at the explo

Contents:

Revolutions in Development Inquiry; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; Preface; Spirit and orientation; Limitations; Overview; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1. The Provocation: Dinosaurs; Abstract; Experiences; Review and reflection (2008); Notes; Chapter 2. Rural Development Tourism: Poverty Unperceived; Abstract; Genesis and rationale (2008); Rural poverty unperceived (1983); The biases reviewed (2008); Notes; Chapter 3. Microenvironments: Observing the Unobserved; Abstract; Microenvironments unobserved (1990)

Complexity and diversity underperceivedMicroenvironments unobserved; Properties of microenvironments; Whose knowledge and creativity counts?; Action for the 1990s; More observations (2008); Notes; Chapter 4. Rapid Rural Appraisal: Origins, Rationale and Repertoire; Abstract; Errors and opportunism: One person's stumbling (2008); The emergence of RRA; Rapid Rural Appraisal: Rationale and repertoire (1980); Postscript (2008); Appendix: Some sources, approaches and methods; Notes; Chapter 5. PRA: Pathways, Practice and Principles; Abstract; Practice: What has happened?

Principles: Theory from practiceBeyond PRA, brands and boundaries; Notes; Chapter 6. Who Counts? Participation and Numbers; Abstract; Introduction; Going to scale with participatory numbers; Who counts?; The best of all worlds?; Methodological challenges; The future; Notes; Chapter 7. Whose Space? Mapping, Power and Ethics; Abstract; The origins and history of participatory mapping; Ground and paper mapping; Spatial information technologies and participatory GIS; Medium and process; Maps, realities and power; Facilitation, behaviour, attitudes and ethics; Ethics: The Who? and Whose? Questions

ConclusionNotes; Chapter 8. Traps and Liberations; Abstract; Context and challenge: To be in touch and up to date; Out of the Jurassic trap: Alternatives to dinosaurs; From urban trap to new black hole; Out of the black hole: Beating biases is fun; Learning face to face; Learning how to liberate; Whose trap? Whose liberation? Issues of ethics; The paradox of power: Reversals for pro-poor professionalism; Notes; Chapter 9. Participatory Methodologies: Drivers for Change; Abstract; The journey so far; Methodological diversity and pluralism; Implicit and resonant theory

Potential to transform: PMs and their facilitation as drivers for changeBlocks to realizing potentials; Lessons of experience and ways forward; Coda: Visionary realism; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-222) and index.

ISBN:

1-136-55811-X

1-281-82734-7

1-84977-242-8

1-136-55812-8

9786611827342

600-00-1115-6

9781849772426

OCLC:

466435765