The Critical Villager: Beyond Community Participation [Hardcover]

Eric Dudley (Author)

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Publication Date: Nov 12 1993 | ISBN-10: 041507343X | ISBN-13: 978-0415073431 | Edition: 1

When aid to the Third World actually works it is usually on such a small scale that it makes little impact on the world's problems. Can demands for generalizable actions be reconciled with location-specific solutions? The Critical Villager considers how community-based technical aid can be made more effective and sustainable. Calling for development workers, policy makers and researchers to put themselves in the place of the intended beneficiaries of aid, it suggests concrete principles for action and research. It argues that participatory research and 'transfer of technology' should not be regarded as rival models for development but rather as complementary components in a single process of effective aid.

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Nov 12 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 041507343X
ISBN-13: 978-0415073431
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.2 x 1.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 440 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,402,466 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`The author brings together much which might be considered common sense or common knowledge within the conference-attending development community into one well-organised, readable volume drawing on his own field experiences for illustration.' - Oxfam's Review of Journals