Title: Development Encounters
Author: Margarita Benavides; Anne Ferguson; Theodore Macdonald; Isaac Mazonde; Ajay Mehta; Paul Nkwi; Jesse Ribot; James Trostle; Editor-Pauline E. Peters
Publisher: Harvard Institute for International Development
Copyright Date: 2001-02-15
ISBN: 0674002601
Type: Paperback
Book condition: Very Good +
Jacket condition: None as issued

Notes: Clean, solid copy with no writing, highlighting, marks, or creased page corners. Very light shelf wear to corner tips. Cover is glossy, looks very good. No creases to spine or cover; binding tight and square.

About the Book

The field of development is subject to shifts in paradigms, and it is important to examine systematically how these are realized in actual practice. Two currently favored approaches are participation and indigenous knowledge. In this volume's collected papers, development researchers and practitioners share their ideas and experience on the different forms taken by participation and knowledge, not limited to "indigenous" knowledge, in the practice of development. The "development encounters" they describe took place in sites ranging from villages in the Amazon, India, and southern Africa to research laboratories and corporate boardrooms in central Africa, Latin America, and the United States. This timely and grounded account of participation and knowledge in the front lines will be of interest to a range of practitioners, analysts, and students of development.