Autonomous Development: Humanising the Landscape: An Excursion Into Radical Thinking & Practice - Hardcover

Carmen, Raff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856493873 ISBN 13: 9781856493871

Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Raff Carmen currently coordinates the Masters and post-graduate research programmes in Adult Education, Adult Literacy and Rural Social/Community Development at the University of Manchester.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1856493873
• ISBN 13: 9781856493871
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258
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