Development Encounters – Sites of Participation & Knowledge: Sites of Participation and Knowledge (Harvard Studies in International Development) - Hardcover

Peters, Pauline E

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674002598 ISBN 13: 9780674002593

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2001

Synopsis

The field of development is subject to shifts in paradigms, and it is important to examine systematically how these are realised in actual practice. Two currently favoured 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 account of participation and knowledge in the front lines should be of interest to a range of practitioners, analysts, and students of development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674002598
• ISBN 13: 9780674002593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232