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      Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers

      Revolutionizing Development

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      Revolutionizing Development book

      Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers
      Edited ByAndrea Cornwall, Ian Scoones
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2011
      eBook Published 28 March 2022
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003298632
      Pages 336
      eBook ISBN 9781003298632
      Subjects Environment and Sustainability, Global Development
      OA Funder University of Sussex
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      Cornwall, A., & Scoones, I. (Eds.). (2011). Revolutionizing Development: Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003298632

      ABSTRACT

      This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambers. His work has taken him from being a colonial officer in Kenya through training and managing large rural development projects to a fundamental critique of top-down development and the championing of participatory approaches. The contributors eloquently demonstrate how he has been at the centre of major shifts in development thinking and practice over this period, popularising terms that are now at the centre of the development lexicon such as vulnerability, multi-dimensional poverty, sustainable livelihoods and 'farmer first'.

      Robert Chambers played a major role in the massive growth in participatory approaches to development, and particularly the application of participatory methods in development research and appraisal. This has led to fundamental challenges to development practice, ranging from approaches to monitoring and evaluation to institutional learning and professional training. There is probably no-one who has had more influence on approaches to development in the past decades. Revolutionizing Development offers a unique overview of these contributions in thirty-two concise chapters from authors who have been intimately involved as collaborators, critics and colleagues of Robert Chambers.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|19 pages

      Putting the Last First: Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers

      ByAndrea Cornwall, Ian Scoones

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      part Part 1|61 pages

      Conceptualizing Development

      chapter 2|8 pages

      Challenging Development Priorities

      ByRichard Jolly

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      chapter 3|7 pages

      Beginners in Africa: Managing Rural Development

      ByJon R. Moris

      Size: 0.45 MB

      chapter 4|6 pages

      The Path from Managerialism to Participation: The Kenyan Special Rural Development Programme

      ByDavid K. Leonard

      Size: 0.44 MB

      chapter 5|7 pages

      Foxes and Hedgehogs – and Lions: Whose Reality Prevails?

      ByPaul Spencer

      Size: 0.46 MB

      chapter 6|5 pages

      Administration and Development

      ByColin Fuller

      Size: 0.44 MB

      chapter 7|8 pages

      Participation in International Aid

      ByRosalind Eyben

      Size: 0.48 MB

      chapter 8|7 pages

      Power and Participation

      ByJohn Gaventa

      Size: 0.46 MB

      chapter 9|7 pages

      Reframing Development

      ByAndrea Cornwall

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      part Part 2|79 pages

      Rural Development, Poverty and Livelihoods

      chapter 10|8 pages

      Exploring Sustainable Livelihoods

      ByGordon Conway

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      chapter 11|8 pages

      Putting the Vulnerable First

      ByStephen Devereux

      Size: 0.45 MB

      chapter 12|6 pages

      Seasonality: Uncovering the Obvious and Implementing the Complex

      ByRichard Longhurst

      Size: 0.45 MB

      chapter 13|6 pages

      Refugee Studies

      ByBarbara Harrell-Bond

      Size: 0.45 MB

      chapter 14|8 pages

      Farmer First: Reversals for Agricultural Research

      ByJacqueline A. Ashby

      Size: 0.46 MB

      chapter 15|7 pages

      Agricultural Development: Parsimonious Paradigms

      ByJanice Jiggins

      Size: 0.45 MB

      chapter 16|6 pages

      In Search of a Water Revolution: Canal Irrigation Management

      ByRoberto Lenton

      Size: 0.46 MB

      chapter 17|6 pages

      The Last Frontier: The Groundwater Revolution in South Asia

      ByTushaar Shah

      Size: 0.45 MB

      chapter 18|7 pages

      Trees as Assets: Legacies and Lessons

      ByMelissa Leach

      Size: 0.46 MB

      chapter 19|6 pages

      Finding a Sustainable Sanitation Solution: Scaling Up Community-Led Total Sanitation

      ByKamal Kar

      Size: 0.45 MB

      chapter 20|7 pages

      Technology and Markets

      ByBarbara Harriss-White

      Size: 0.45 MB

      part Part 3|40 pages

      Methodological Innovations

      chapter 21|7 pages

      Village Studies

      ByJohn Harriss

      Size: 0.46 MB

      chapter 22|8 pages

      Whose Knowledge Counts? Tales of an Eclectic Participatory Pluralist

      ByJohn Thompson, Irene Guijt

      Size: 0.46 MB

      chapter 23|5 pages

      Learning to Unlearn: Creating a Virtuous Learning Cycle

      ByParmesh Shah, Meera Kaul Shah

      Size: 0.43 MB

      chapter 24|9 pages

      The Use of Participatory Methods to Study Natural Resources1

      ByLouise Fortmann

      Size: 0.49 MB

      chapter 25|6 pages

      Participatory Numbers

      ByCarlos Barahona

      Size: 0.44 MB

      part Part 4|57 pages

      Practising Development: New Professionalism

      chapter 26|5 pages

      The Personal and the Political

      ByRamesh Singh

      Size: 0.43 MB

      chapter 27|6 pages

      Poverty Professionals and Poverty

      ByRavi Kanbur

      Size: 0.45 MB

      chapter 28|7 pages

      Changing Attitudes and Behaviour

      BySam Joseph

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      chapter 29|7 pages

      Networking: Building a Global Movement for PRA and other Participatory Methods

      BySamuel Musembi Musyoki

      Size: 0.47 MB

      chapter 30|7 pages

      Institutional Learning and Change

      ByJamie Watts

      Size: 0.45 MB

      chapter 31|7 pages

      Participation, Learning and Accountability: The Role of the Activist Academic

      ByRosalind David, Antonella Mancini

      Size: 0.46 MB

      chapter 32|7 pages

      Development Professionalism

      ByNorman Uphoff

      Size: 0.46 MB

      chapter 33|3 pages

      Appreciation and Reflections

      ByRobert Chambers

      Size: 0.40 MB
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