Revolutionizing Development : : Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers.

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Place / Publishing House:Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2011.
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Acronyms and abbreviations
  • Photographs
  • 1: Putting the Last First: Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers
  • Part 1 - Conceptualizing Development
  • 2: Challenging Development Priorities
  • 3: Beginners in Africa: Managing Rural Development
  • 4: The Path from Managerialism to Participation: The Kenyan Special Rural Development Programme
  • 5: Foxes and Hedgehogs - and Lions: Whose Reality Prevails?
  • 6: Administration and Development
  • 7: Participation in International Aid
  • 8: Power and Participation
  • 9: Reframing Development
  • Part 2 - Rural Development, Poverty and Livelihoods
  • 10: Exploring Sustainable Livelihoods
  • 11: Putting the Vulnerable First
  • 12: Seasonality: Uncovering the Obvious and Implementing the Complex
  • 13: Refugee Studies
  • 14: Farmer First: Reversals for Agricultural Research
  • 15: Agricultural Development: Parsimonious Paradigms
  • 16: In Search of a Water Revolution: Canal Irrigation Management
  • 17: The Last Frontier: The Groundwater Revolution in South Asia
  • 18: Trees as Assets: Legacies and Lessons
  • 19: Finding a Sustainable Sanitation Solution: Scaling up Community-Led Total Sanitation
  • 20: Technology and Markets
  • Part 3 - Methodological Innovations
  • 21: Village Studies
  • 22: Whose Knowledge Counts? Tales of an Eclectic Participatory Pluralist
  • 23: Learning to Unlearn: Creating a Virtuous Learning Cycle
  • 24: The Use of Participatory Methods to Study Natural Resources
  • 25: Participatory Numbers
  • Part 4 - Practising Development: New Professionalism
  • 26: The Personal and the Political
  • 27: Poverty Professionals and Poverty
  • 28: Changing Attitudes and Behaviour
  • 29: Networking: Building a Global Movement for PRA and other Participatory Methods.
  • 30: Institutional Learning and Change
  • 31: Participation, Learning and Accountability: The Role of the Activist Academic
  • 32: Development Professionalism
  • 33: Appreciation and Reflections
  • Appendix: List of Robert Chambers' Publications
  • References
  • Index.