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Provocations for Development (Hardcover)
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Do we use obscure words to impress our colleagues - or fashionable
ones to win research proposals? How do poor people define their
poverty? How can we use aid budgets most effectively? 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 is organized into four sections: Word Play, irreverently
examines vocabularies of development and how words are instruments
of power; Poverty and Participation challenges concepts of poverty,
presents empowering breakthroughs in the current explosion of
participatory methodologies; Aid, is critical of past and present
procedures and practices in aid and points to feasible changes for
doing better; For our Future touches on values, ethics, gender and
participation, immersions, hypocrisy, and paradigms, and sees hope
in children. The final provocation invites readers to find answers
to the question 'what would it take to eliminate poverty in the
world?'
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