Has development thinking become too narrow and specialised? Does it
fail to draw on learning from outside the realm of development
studies about how social change happens? This report presents an
overview of approaches used to explain social change from a wide
range of academic perspectives, from history, politics and
economics to psychology and geography. These are summarised in a
useful table, which presents a series of questions as a flexible
tool for thinking about how change happens. The author argues that
current development thinking uses only a narrow range of approaches
to change and the result is that most development strategies are
limited. They: are excessively reformist and insensitive to
underlying power and inequalitylargely ignore environmental
issuesoverlook the importance of personal relationships and
promoting mutual understanding as a strategy for changefail to
appreciate fully the contextual factors that limit changelack a
multidisciplinary agility to draw on the broad range of approaches
to change that exist outside the confines of development studies.
There is a need for broader thinking about how change happens, so
that we can be more creative in devising strategies and more adept
at facing the huge challenges that confront our societies and
planet.
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