Communicating development with communities
"Development theory and practice are often taught in a manner that strips them of their historical context and obscures alternative intellectual assumptions and critical frameworks. This prevents students from acquiring a holistic understanding of the world and consequently, when it comes to development practice, most lack the skills to live and engage with people. It has become crucial to properly consider what it means to conceive and implement participatory development out in the field and n…
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- Full title :Communicating development with communities / Linje Manyozo.
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"Development theory and practice are often taught in a manner that strips them of their historical context and obscures alternative intellectual assumptions and critical frameworks. This prevents students from acquiring a holistic understanding of the world and consequently, when it comes to development practice, most lack the skills to live and engage with people. It has become crucial to properly consider what it means to conceive and implement participatory development out in the field and not just in the boardroom. Building on the work of Robert Chambers and Arturo Escobar, Communicating Development with Communities is an empirically grounded critical reflection on how the development industry defines, imagines and constructs development at the implementation level. Unpacking the dominant syntax in the theory and practice of development, the book advocates a move towards relational and indigenous models of living that celebrate local ontologies, spirituality, economies of solidarity and community-ness. It investigates how subaltern voices are produced and appropriated, and how well-meaning experts can easily become oppressors. The book propounds a pedagogy of listening as a pathway that offers a space for interest groups to collaboratively curate meaningful development with and alongside communities." -- Back cover.
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- Publication Date:©2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2017
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 165 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781138745995, 1138745995, 9781138746046, 1138746045
- oclc:ocn975370786
- LC Classification:HD76
- Dewey Decimal:307.1/4014
Table of Contents
Deconstruction. Spectacle of development -- "We came, we saw, he died" : language of oppression -- Reconstruction and recovery. Capturing subalern voices -- Living with people -- Encountering poverty in the Heart of darkness -- Pedagogy of listening.
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