This book tells the story of development studies in practice over
the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual,
Robert Chambers. His work has taken him from being a colonial
officer in Kenya through training and managing large rural
development projects to a fundamental critique of top-down
development and the championing of participatory approaches. The
contributors eloquently demonstrate how he has been at the centre
of major shifts in development thinking and practice over this
period, popularising terms that are now at the centre of the
development lexicon such as vulnerability, multi-dimensional
poverty, sustainable livelihoods and 'farmer first'. Robert
Chambers played a major role in the massive growth in participatory
approaches to development, and particularly the application of
participatory methods in development research and appraisal. This
has led to fundamental challenges to development practice, ranging
from approaches to monitoring and evaluation to institutional
learning and professional training. There is probably no-one who
has had more influence on approaches to development in the past
decades. Revolutionizing Development offers a unique overview of
these contributions in thirty-two concise chapters from authors who
have been intimately involved as collaborators, critics and
colleagues of Robert Chambers.
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