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oapen-20.500.12657-536812023-07-04T12:12:52Z Revolutionizing Development Cornwall, Andrea Scoones, Ian Development economics and emerging economies bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies 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. 2022-03-31T13:58:07Z 2022-03-31T13:58:07Z 2022 book ONIX_20220331_9781000606591_6 9781000606591 9781003298632 9781849713306 9781849713290 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53681 eng application/pdf n/a 9781000606591.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003298632 10.4324/9781003298632 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781000606591 9781003298632 9781849713306 9781849713290 Routledge 336 open access
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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.
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