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Participation : the new tyranny? / edited by Bill Cooke and Uma Kothari.

Title
  1. Participation : the new tyranny? / edited by Bill Cooke and Uma Kothari.
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  1. London ; New York : Zed Books, 2001.

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Additional authors
  1. Cooke, Bill, 1957-
  2. Kothari, Uma
  3. University of Manchester. Institute for Development Policy and Management
Description
  1. xii, 207 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. In many countries around the world, in NGOs, private concerns and other organisations, participation is a buzz-word that fails to live up to expectations. These essays explore how participatory schemes fail and how to rectify the situation.
Subject
  1. Participatory rural appraisal > Congresses
  2. Community development > Management > Congresses
  3. Economic development > Management > Congresses
  4. Participatory rural appraisal
  5. Community development > Management
  6. Economic development > Management
  7. Social Change
  8. Economic Development
Contents
  1. The case for participation as tyranny / Bill Cooke and Uma Kothari -- 'People's knowledge,' participation and patronage : operations and representations in rural development / David Mosse -- Institutions, agency and the limitations of participatory approaches to development / Frances Cleaver -- Pluralism, participation and power : joint forest management in India / Nicholas Hildyard, Pandurang Hegde, Paul Wolvekamp and Somasekhare Reddy -- Participatory development at the World Bank : the primacy of process / Paul Francis -- Beyond the formulaic : process and practice in South Asian NGOs / John Hailey -- The social psychological limits of participation? / Bill Cooke.
  2. Insights into participation from critical management and labour process perspectives / Harry Taylor -- Power, knowledge and social control in participatory development / Uma Kothari -- Beyond participation : strategies for deeper empowerment / Giles Mohan -- Participation as spiritual duty, empowerment as secular subjection / Heiko Henkel and Roderick Stirrat.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Outgrowth of a conference held at the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-200) and index.
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  1. committed to retain