Revolutionizing Development : Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers.
Material type: TextPublisher: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2011Copyright date: �2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781000606591Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Revolutionizing DevelopmentOnline resources: Click to ViewCover -- 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.
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