Action and Knowledge: Breaking the monopoly with Participatory Action Research

ISBN 10: 1853390984 / ISBN 13: 9781853390982

Verlag: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1991

Beschreibung

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers I-9781853390982

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Action and Knowledge: Breaking the monopoly with Participatory Action Research
• Verlag: Intermediate Technology Publications
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1853390984
• ISBN-13: 9781853390982
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

The book draws on twenty years of experience with the techniques and philosophy of PAR using case studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and North America to show how widespread this approach to development has become since it emerged as a new way to empower the oppressed two decades ago.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Orlando Fals-Borda died in 2008. His perspective built a singular bond between science and politics that changed dramatically the relations between society and knowledge. An essential part of his effort was centered on the construction of a perspective from the border and the periphery, focused on the subordination conditions of the Latin American societies

Muhammad Anisur Rahman is a former Professor of economics at the University of Dacca, Bangladesh; coordinator of the Programme on Participatory Organisations of the Rural Poor (PORP), Rural Employment Policies Branch, Employment and Development Department, International Labour Office (Geneva); and author of several publications on people's participation.