Revolutionizing Development (eBook, PDF)

Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers
Redaktion: Cornwall, Andrea; Scoones, Ian

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambers. His work has taken him from being a colonial officer in Kenya through training and managing large rural development projects to a fundamental critique of top-down development and the championing of participatory approaches. The contributors eloquently demonstrate how he has been at the centre of major shifts in development thinking and practice over this period, popularising terms that are now at the centre of the development lexicon such as vulnerability, multi-dimensional poverty, sustainable livelihoods and 'farmer first'.

Robert Chambers played a major role in the massive growth in participatory approaches to development, and particularly the application of participatory methods in development research and appraisal. This has led to fundamental challenges to development practice, ranging from approaches to monitoring and evaluation to institutional learning and professional training. There is probably no-one who has had more influence on approaches to development in the past decades. Revolutionizing Development offers a unique overview of these contributions in thirty-two concise chapters from authors who have been intimately involved as collaborators, critics and colleagues of Robert Chambers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000606591
• Artikelnr.: 63666935

Autorenporträt

Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Anthropology and Development in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. She is director of the DFID-funded research programme consortium Pathways of Women's Empowerment, and works on the anthropology of democracy, gender and sexualities. Ian Scoones is co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at the University of Sussex and joint convenor of the IDS-hosted Future Agricultures Consortium. He is an agricultural ecologist by original training whose interdisciplinary research links the natural and social sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Acronyms. Robert Chambers. Putting
the Last First: Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers. Conceptualising
Development. Challenging Development Priorities. Beginners in Africa:
Managing Rural Development. The Path from Managerialism to Participation:
The Kenyan Special Rural Development Programme. Foxes and Hedgehogs - and
Lions: Whose Reality Prevails? Participation in International Aid. Power
and Participation. Reframing Development. Rural Development, Poverty and
Livelihoods - Exploring Sustainable Livelihoods. Putting the Vulnerable
First. Seasonality: Uncovering the Obvious and Implementing the Complex.
Refugee Studies. Farmer First: Reversals for Agricultural Research.
Agricultural Development: Parsimonious Paradigms. In Search of a Water
Revolution: Canal Irrigation Management. The Last Frontier: The Groundwater
Revolution in South Asia. Trees as Assets: Legacies and Lessons. Finding a
Sustainable Sanitation Solution: Scaling up Community-Led Total Sanitation.
Technology and Markets. Methodological Innovations Village Studies. Whose
Knowledge Counts? Tales of an Eclectic Participatory Pluralist. Learning to
Unlearn: Creating a Virtuous Learning Cycle. The Use of Participatory
Methods to Study Natural Resources. Participatory Numbers. Practising
Development: New Professionalism. The Personal and the Political.
International Poverty Professionals and Poverty. Changing Attitudes and
Behaviour. Networking: Building a Global Movement for PRA and other
Participatory Methods. Institutional Learning and Change. Participation,
Learning and Accountability: The Role of the Activist Academic. Development
Professionalism. Appreciation and Reflections. Appendix. List of Robert
Chambers' Publications. References. Index