Voice for the Excluded: Popular Participation in Development, Utopia or Necessity

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Geneva: UNRISD, 1994Description: 265pISBN:

9781856492485

DDC classification:

323.042098 STI.V

Summary: This is a comparative study of the concept of participation in development. The book calls for beneficial development to allow for the empowerment of local communities. Pulling together the findings of field studies in Latin American and Asian countries, it focuses on the organised efforts of "the excluded" as well of NGOs, the state and international agencies. The book shows how all interact with differing purposes to encourage, coopt or undermine participatory struggles and initiatives. The authors combine historical context, theoretical clarity and sociological examination of a wide variety of actual cases.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	School of Distance Education, University of Kerala, Kariavattom Campus General Stacks	School of Distance Education, University of Kerala, Kariavattom Campus	323.042098 STI.V (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		SDE28555

This is a comparative study of the concept of participation in development. The book calls for beneficial development to allow for the empowerment of local communities. Pulling together the findings of field studies in Latin American and Asian countries, it focuses on the organised efforts of "the excluded" as well of NGOs, the state and international agencies. The book shows how all interact with differing purposes to encourage, coopt or undermine participatory struggles and initiatives. The authors combine historical context, theoretical clarity and sociological examination of a wide variety of actual cases.

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