Revolutionizing development : reflections on the work of Robert Chambers /

"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 c...

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Otros Autores: Cornwall, Andrea, 1963- (ed.), Scoones, Ian (ed.)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2011.
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245 0 0 |a Revolutionizing development :  |b reflections on the work of Robert Chambers /  |c edited by Andrea Cornwall and Ian Scoones. 
260 |a London ;  |a Washington, DC :  |b Earthscan,  |c 2011. 
300 |a xxii, 313 p. :  |b il. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. 
505 0 |a Putting the Last First : Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers / Andrea Cornwall and Ian Scoones -- Conceptualizing Development -- Challenging Development Priorities / Richard Jolly -- Beginners in Africa : Managing Rural Development / Jon R. Morris -- The Path from Managerialism to Participation : The Kenyan Special Rural Development Programme / David K. Leonard -- Foxes and Hedgehogs, and Lions : Whose Reality Prevails? / Paul Spencer -- Participation in International Aid / Rosalind Eyben -- Power and Participation / John Gaventa -- Reframing Development / Andrea Cornwell -- Rural Development, Poverty and Livelihoods -- Exploring Sustainable Livelihoods / Gordon Conway -- Putting the Vulnerable First / Stephen Devereux -- Seasonality : Uncovering the Obvious and Implementing the Complex / Richard Longhurst -- Refugee Studies / Barbara Harrell-Bond -- Farmer First : Reversals for Agricultural Research / Jacqueline A. Ashby -- Agricultural Development : Parsimonious Paradigms / Janice Jiggins -- In Search of a Water Revolution : Canal Irrigation Management / Roberto Lenton -- The Last Frontier : The Groundwater Revolution in South Asia /Tsuhaar Shah -- Trees as Assets : Legacies and Lessons / Melissa Leach -- Finding a Sustainable Sanitation Solution : Scaling up Community-Led Total Sanitation / Kamal Kar -- Technology and Markets / Barbara Harriss-White -- Methodological Innovations -- Village Studies / John Harriss -- Whose Knowledge Counts? Tales of an Eclectic Participatory Pluralist / John Thompson and Irene Guijt -- Learning to Unlearn : Creating a Virtuous Learning Cycle / Parmesh Shah and Mera Kaul Shah -- The Use of Participatory Methods to Study Natural Resources / Louise Fortmann -- Participatory Numbers / Carlos Barahona -- Practising Development : New Professionalism -- The Personal and the Political / Ramesh Singh -- Poverty Professionals and Poverty / Ravi Kanbur -- Changing Attitudes and Behaviour / Sam Joseph -- Networking : Building a Global Movement for PRA and other Participatory Methods / Samuel Musembi Musyoki -- Institutional Learning and Change / Jamie Watts -- Participation, Learning and Accountability : The Role of the Activist Academic / Rosalind David and Antonell Mancini -- Development Professionalism / Norman Uphoff -- Appreciation and Reflections / Robert Chambers. 
520 |a "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."--Descripción del editor. 
600 1 0 |a Chambers, Robert,  |d 1932- 
600 1 7 |a Chambers, Robert,  |d 1932-  |2 UDESA 
650 0 |a Rural development  |z Developing countries. 
650 0 |a Economic development  |z Developing countries. 
650 7 |a Desarrollo rural  |z Países en desarrollo.  |2 UDESA 
650 7 |a Desarrollo económico  |z Países en desarrollo.  |2 UDESA 
700 1 |a Cornwall, Andrea,  |d 1963-  |e ed. 
700 1 |a Scoones, Ian,  |e ed.