Revolutionizing Development : Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers (Paperback)

Notes on Contributors.  Acknowledgements.  Acronyms.  Robert Chambers.  Putting the Last First: Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers.  Conceptualising Development.  Challenging Development Priorities.  Beginners in Africa: Managing Rural Development.  The Path from Managerialism to Participation: The Kenyan Special Rural Development Programme.  Foxes and Hedgehogs ? and Lions: Whose Reality Prevails?  Participation in International Aid.  Power and Participation.   Reframing Development.  Rural Development, Poverty and Livelihoods ? Exploring Sustainable Livelihoods.  Putting the Vulnerable First.  Seasonality: Uncovering the Obvious and Implementing the Complex.  Refugee Studies.  Farmer First: Reversals for Agricultural Research.  Agricultural Development: Parsimonious Paradigms.  In Search of a Water Revolution: Canal Irrigation Management.  The Last Frontier: The Groundwater Revolution in South Asia.  Trees as Assets: Legacies and Lessons.  Finding a Sustainable Sanitation Solution: Scaling up Community-Led Total Sanitation.  Technology and Markets.  Methodological Innovations Village Studies.  Whose Knowledge Counts? Tales of an Eclectic Participatory Pluralist.  Learning to Unlearn: Creating a Virtuous Learning Cycle.  The Use of Participatory Methods to Study Natural Resources.  Participatory Numbers.  Practising Development: New Professionalism.  The Personal and the Political.  International Poverty Professionals and Poverty.  Changing Attitudes and Behaviour.  Networking: Building a Global Movement for PRA and other Participatory Methods.  Institutional Learning and Change.  Participation, Learning and Accountability: The Role of the Activist Academic.  Development Professionalism.  Appreciation and Reflections.  Appendix.  List of Robert Chambers' Publications.  References.  Index