Development Encounters - Softcover

Benavides, Margarita; Ferguson, Anne; Macdonald, Theodore; Mazonde, Isaac; Mehta, Ajay; Nkwi, Paul; Ribot, Jesse; Trostle, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674002601 ISBN 13: 9780674002609

Publisher: Harvard Kennedy School, 2001

Synopsis

The field of development is subject to shifts in paradigms, and it is important to examine systematically how these are realized in actual practice. Two currently favored approaches are participation and indigenous knowledge. In this volume's collected papers, development researchers and practitioners share their ideas and experience on the different forms taken by participation and knowledge, not limited to "indigenous" knowledge, in the practice of development. The "development encounters" they describe took place in sites ranging from villages in the Amazon, India, and southern Africa to research laboratories and corporate boardrooms in central Africa, Latin America, and the United States.

This timely and grounded account of participation and knowledge in the front lines will be of interest to a range of practitioners, analysts, and students of development.

About this title

About the Author:

Pauline E. Peters is a fellow at the Harvard Institute for International Development and a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Kennedy School
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0674002601
• ISBN 13: 9780674002609
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Peters Pauline E.