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Clodomir Santos de Morais is to organizational and entrepreneurial
literacy what his Brazilian confrere, Paulo Freire, is to ordinary
literacy. This book introduces for the first time in English the
experiences of grassroots development workers who have applied his
ideas of the Organization Workshop (OW) and capacitation in highly
diverse social settings. One of the most exciting aspects of de
Morais's methods of working with the most marginalized sectors of
society is their relevance not just to Third World countries, but
also to Eastern Europe's economies in transition and the most
deprived areas of the industrialized countries. This highly
distinctive grassroots development approach to empowering socially
excluded strata in economic and organizational terms holds out the
prospect of becoming a very important factor in the struggle
against poverty.
At a time of widespread disillusion as to what development has in
practice done to the lives of hundreds of millions of marginalised
people over the past 40 years, this book seeks to reclaim
development as a project of people's own autonomous agency. Born
out of three decades of field experience and working with 'Third
World' students, it revisits the primary question of what
development ought really to be about. Raff Carmen starts from the
conviction that development is too important to be left to the
developers. He critically examines what has gone on under its name,
finding it wanting both as an epistemological category and a sound
operational practice. Instead, he presents a counter-view of
development as an act of creation whereby people exercise their
inalienable right 'to invent their own future' as authors of an
ongoing process of transforming and humanising the landscapes they
inhabit.
At a time of widespread disillusion as to what development has in
practice done to the lives of hundreds of millions of marginalised
people over the past 40 years, this book seeks to reclaim
development as a project of people's own autonomous agency. Born
out of three decades of field experience and working with 'Third
World' students, it revisits the primary question of what
development ought really to be about. Raff Carmen starts from the
conviction that development is too important to be left to the
developers. He critically examines what has gone on under its name,
finding it wanting both as an epistemological category and a sound
operational practice. Instead, he presents a counter-view of
development as an act of creation whereby people exercise their
inalienable right 'to invent their own future' as authors of an
ongoing process of transforming and humanising the landscapes they
inhabit.
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