A Voice for the Excluded: Popular Participation in Development - Softcover

Stiefel, Matthias; Wolfe, Marshall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856492486 ISBN 13: 9781856492485

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

This comparative study of participation in development is hardheaded in its conclusion that beneficial development requires the redistribution of power to local communities. The book pulls together the findings of field studies among both rural and urban communities in Latin American and Asian countries, and in Tanzania, to assess what has happened to popular participation since the beginning of the 1980s and to sketch out its future direction .The focus is on the organized efforts of 'the excluded' as well as of NGOs, the state and international agencies. It shows how all interact to encourage, coopt or undermine participatory struggles and initiatives. The book combines historical context and theoretical clarity with sociological examination of a wide variety of actual cases.

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Synopsis

This is a comparative study of the concept of participation in development. The book calls for beneficial development to allow for the empowerment of local communities. Pulling together the findings of field studies in Latin American and Asian countries, it focuses on the organized efforts of "the excluded" as well of NGOs, the state and international agencies. The book shows how all interact with differing purposes to encourage, coopt or undermine participatory struggles and initiatives. The authors combine historical context, theoretical clarity and sociological examination of a wide variety of actual cases.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856492486
• ISBN 13: 9781856492485
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288