Development Encounters : Sites of Participation and Knowledge

by PETERS PAULINE E. (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780674002609
• ISBN10: 0674002601
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

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 volumeÕs collected papers, development researchers and practitioners share their ideas and experience on the different forms taken by participation and knowledge, not limited to ÒindigenousÓ knowledge, in the practice of development. The Òdevelopment encountersÓ 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.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Encountering Participation and Knowledge in Development Sites	3	(12)
Pauline E. Peters
The Micro Politics of Participatory Projects: An Anatomy of Change in Two Villages	15	(14)
Ajay Mehta
Decentralization, Participation, and Representation: Administrative Apartheid in Sahelian Forestry	29	(32)
Jesse C. Ribot
New Challenges for Alternative Ways of Development among Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon	61	(16)
Margarita Benavides
Battlefields of Wits: Interface between NGOs, Government, and Donors at the Development Site	77	(18)
Isaac N. Mazonde
The Routinization of Participation: Emerging Norms, Local Participation, and Conflict Management in Latin America	95	(26)
Theodore Macdonald
Writing Against Hegemony: Development Encounters in Zimbabwe and Malawi	121	(36)
Anne Ferguson
Bill Derman
Developing International Health Science Research: Measuring or Marginalizing Quality	157	(18)
James A. Trostle
Rethinking the Role of Elites in Rural Development: A Case Study from Cameroon	175	(22)
Paul Nchoji Nkwi
Bibliography	197	(20)
Subject Index	217
Author Index	xxx