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Revolutions in Development Inquiry (Hardcover)
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Robert Chambers, one of the critical optimists of international
development, returns with a new book that reviews, together for the
first time, some of the revolutionary changes in the methodologies
and methods of development inquiry that have occurred in the past
forty years, and reflects on their transformative potential for the
future.This book breaks new ground by describing and analyzing the
evolution of a sequence of approaches. It starts with the
provocation of the "dinosaurs" of large-scale multi-subject
questionnaire surveys, and the biased visits and perceptions of
rural development tourism-the brief rural visits of urban-based
professionals. This is followed by the explosive proliferation of
methodologies and methods of recent years, especially rapid rural
appraisal (RRA) including observation and semi-structured
interviews, and participatory rural appraisal (PRA) with its
group-visual analysis. Dramatic developments in the still largely
unrecognized fields of participatory numbers and statistics, and of
participatory mapping including participatory GIS, are described
and analyzed, demonstrating their great potential as sources of
data and insights. Chambers shows how these can empower local
people and at the same time provide rigorous and valid substitutes
for some more traditional methods of inquiry. Also presented is a
repertoire for offsetting the biases of the urban trap, which has
become so serious for officials and aid agency staff. Importantly,
he points out that we are now in a different space,
methodologically, from a few years ago. He makes the case that
participatory methodologies, evolved through creative and eclectic
pluralism, can be transformative, and a waveof the future as
drivers of personal, professional and institutional change.
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