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Patrick Milabyo Kyamusugulwa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Participatory Development and Reconstruction: a literature review
Third World Quarterly, 2013Co-Authors: Patrick Milabyo KyamusugulwaAbstract:In the past decade researchers and Development experts have been preoccupied by Participatory Development and reconstruction. Despite criticisms of its potential, it has been at the centre of Development practices. This review of both published and unpublished literature aims to assess the importance of Participatory Development and reconstruction, especially its positive and negative characteristics. The paper shows that, despite its potentially transformative role, its main drawback rests in the power relations between elites and non-elites and that creating comprehensible ways through which non-elites can deal with these relations is one issue that needs additional research. Other issues that need more research are related to how to sustain the Participatory Development and reconstruction outcomes by increasing local ownership, and how to better involve existing structures and institutions (both state and non-state actors) in Development and reconstruction efforts for poverty alleviation.
Marina Welker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Green Revolution's ghost: Unruly subjects of Participatory Development in rural Indonesia
American Ethnologist, 2012Co-Authors: Marina WelkerAbstract:After the Batu Hijau mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia, began operating in 2000, mine managers identified area farmers as a top security risk because they were threatening to shut down the mine unless they were given jobs there. Among various efforts to get local residents “back on the land,” the mine began sponsoring Participatory integrated pest management trainings that were supposed to turn residents into productive and self-reliant subjects. Instead, these trainings evoked subjects who claimed—through their resistance to certain aspects of the trainings—that they were dependent on and entitled to conventional forms of Development aid from the mine. [Participatory Development, subjectivity, Indonesia, mining, environment]
Li Jian-qiang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Deepening and Expansion:Explore the Localization of the Participatory Development——The Reviews of Gansu Yutian Rural Development Forum
Journal of Social Work, 2009Co-Authors: Li Jian-qiangAbstract:Participatory Development was introduced to China since the last century 90's,and was widely used to projects of rural Development by the NGO,and has achieved remarkable results.However,duing to the lack of practical experience and reflection,the Participatory approach was used as technic,pattern and dogma of the application,and was faced with the plight of localization.In order to deepen and expand Participatory de-velopment horizon,and explore the localization road of the Participatory Development,Gansu Yutian Rural Development Forum was successfully held in Lanzhou,on December 6th,2008.The theme of this forum in-cluding "Participatory Development and localization," "the farmer's orga-nization and Development "," to expand the horizons of Development " were discussed fruitfully.
Giles Mohan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Teaching and Learning Guide for: Participatory Development: From Epistemological Reversals to Active Citizenship
Geography Compass, 2008Co-Authors: Giles MohanAbstract:Many people across the world are frustrated with the ways in which policy is formed and implemented. They feel shut-out of the process, even in nominally democratic societies, and so are seeking to increase participation in the Development process. Participatory Development is a term to describe approaches to policy and action that place the marginalised at the centre of decision-making. Participation has become a feature of approaches in both the global South and global North, and is one of the few occasions where learning appears to have travelled from the South to the North. Its universalisation over the past two to three decades reflects a frustration with the ways in which approaches that target the marginalised through ‘formal’ political channels and ‘top down’ policy processes have in fact ignored their views and needs. Through a range of techniques for engaging with marginalised communities, Participatory Development promises a more engaged form of social transformation. But like many radical approaches that potentially upset established power relations, Participatory Development has been co-opted and tamed by some organisations so that ‘participation’ is relatively thin and meaningless. The article explores the rise of Participatory Development and sets out what is meant by participation. It raises some criticisms of ‘mainstream’ Participatory Development and then sets out a suggested means by which participation could be more meaningful. This centres on accountability and citizenship, although these concepts are not unproblematic either.
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Participatory Development and empowerment: the dangers of localism
Third World Quarterly, 2000Co-Authors: Giles Mohan, Kristian StokkeAbstract:Recent discussions in Development have moved away from holistic theorisation towards more localised, empirical and inductive approaches. In Development practice there has been a parallel move towards local ‘participation’ and ‘empowerment’, which has produced, albeit with very different agendas, a high level of agreement between actors and institutions of the ‘new’ Left and the ‘new’ Right. This paper examines the manifestations of this move in four key political arenas: decentralised service delivery, Participatory Development, social capital formation and local Development, and collective actions for ‘radical democracy’. We argue that, by focusing so heavily on ‘the local’, the see manifestations tend to underplay both local inequalities and power relations as well as national and transnational economic and political forces. Following from this, we advocate a stronger emphasis on the politics of the local, ie on the political use of ‘the local’ by hegemonic and counter-hegemonic interests.
Robyn Eversole - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Managing the Pitfalls of Participatory Development: Some Insight from Australia
World Development, 2003Co-Authors: Robyn EversoleAbstract:Abstract The shift from top-down to Participatory Development models has given “local people” a voice, but in practice, real participation is often elusive. Reflecting on a series of Development projects by and for indigenous Australians, this article probes the complexity of social relationships which underlie the apparently straightforward concept of participation. This paper argues for greater attention to “Development relations”: the way that various actors in the Development process relate to one another, and how these relationships directly influence project success. Key principles of power, motivation, legitimacy, and trust emerge to assist practitioners in understanding complex social relationships and managing the pitfalls of Participatory Development.