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Autonomous Development

By Raff Carmen

Autonomous Development Books

Autonomous Development

By Raff Carmen

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At a time of widespread disillusion as to what development has in practice done to the lives of hundreds of millions of marginalised people over the past 40 years, this book seeks to reclaim development as a project of people's own autonomous agency. Born out of three decades of field experience and working with 'Third World' students, it revisits the primary question of what development ought really to be about. Raff Carmen starts from the conviction that development is too important to be left to the developers. He critically examines what has gone on under its name, finding it wanting both as an epistemological category and a sound operational practice. Instead, he presents a counter-view of development as an act of creation whereby people exercise their inalienable right 'to invent their own future' as authors of an ongoing process of transforming and humanising the landscapes they inhabit.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
1996-06-01
Publication Date:
1996-02-05
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
81703659531856493873
ISBN13:
9781856493871
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
499 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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