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Provocations for Development
Do we use obscure or fashionable words to impress our colleagues or win research proposals? Are many of our actions against poverty simple, direct and wrong? Provocations for Development is an entertaining and unsettling collection of writings that questions concepts, conventions and practices in development. It is made up of short and accessible writings by Robert Chambers reflecting on the evolution of concepts like participation and of organizations like the World Bank. Besides provocations, there is mischief, verse and serious fun. The book irreverently examines vocabularies of development and how words are instruments of power; challenges concepts of poverty, presents empowering breakthroughs in the current explosion of participatory methodologies; is critical of past and present procedures and practices in aid; points to feasible changes for doing better; touches on values, ethics, gender and participation, immersions, hypocrisy, and paradigms; and finally invites readers to ponder the question 'what would it take to eliminate poverty in the world?'
Book Details
- Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
- Publish Date: Apr 15th, 2012
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.30in - 6.37in - 0.54in - 0.81lb
- EAN: 9781853397332
- Categories: • Developing & Emerging Countries• Development - Economic Development
About the Author
Chambers, Robert: - Professor Robert Chambers is a research associate of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, which has been his base since 1969 with periods in other countries. He is widely recognized as one of the main driving forces behind the great surge of interest in the use of Participatory Rural Appraisal around the world.
Praise for this book
"An intoxicating cocktail of thought and practice, people and things."--Camilla Toulmin, Director
"For 40 years, Robert Chambers has been challenging complacency and simply-plausible thinking that lacks empirical justification or ethical rigor."--Norman Uphoff, Professor of Government and International Agriculture
"Robert Chambers at his best--irreverent, sharp and illuminating."--Gita Sen, Professor, Centre for Public Policy
"Read this book, reread it, maybe even read parts aloud, and ponder!"--Robin Broad, Professor
"Prepare to be provoked! This book is serious fun."--David Lewis, Professor of Social Policy and Development