Action and Knowledge: Breaking the monopoly with Participatory Action Research - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853390984 ISBN 13: 9781853390982

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 1991

Synopsis

The book draws on twenty years of experience with the techniques and philosophy of PAR using case studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and North America to show how widespread this approach to development has become since it emerged as a new way to empower the oppressed two decades ago.

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About the Authors

Orlando Fals-Borda died in 2008. His perspective built a singular bond between science and politics that changed dramatically the relations between society and knowledge. An essential part of his effort was centered on the construction of a perspective from the border and the periphery, focused on the subordination conditions of the Latin American societies

Muhammad Anisur Rahman is a former Professor of economics at the University of Dacca, Bangladesh; coordinator of the Programme on Participatory Organisations of the Rural Poor (PORP), Rural Employment Policies Branch, Employment and Development Department, International Labour Office (Geneva); and author of several publications on people's participation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853390984
• ISBN 13: 9781853390982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Fals-Borda Orlando