Whose reality counts? : putting the first last (Record no. 42495)
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| fixed length control field | 04015 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781853393860 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 338.90072 |
| Item number | CHA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Chambers, Robert |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Whose reality counts? : putting the first last |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Rugby |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Practical action publishing |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2014 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xx,297p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>List of Figures ix<br/>List of Tables x<br/>Abbreviations and Addresses xi<br/>Glossary of Meanings xiv<br/>Preface xvii<br/>Acknowledgements xix<br/>1. The Challenge to Change<br/>An overview 1<br/>Accelerating change 3<br/>Polarization: overclass and underclass 5<br/>An evolving consensus 9<br/>The power and will to act 12<br/>The challenge to change 14<br/>2.Normal Error<br/>Errors: embedded or embraced? 15<br/>Macro-policy 16<br/>Integrated Rural Development Projects 17<br/>Beliefs about food and famine 17<br/>Post-harvest losses of grain 19<br/>Animal-drawn wheeled toolcarriers 21<br/>Woodfuel forecasts 22<br/>People and the environment 23<br/>The puzzle: why were we wrong? 29<br/>The puzzle and the challenge 31<br/>3.Professional Realities<br/>Normal professional status 34<br/>Things and people 36<br/>Measurement 38<br/>Reductionism: simplifying the complex 42<br/>Economics: culture and cult 49<br/>The professional prison 54<br/>4.The Transfer of Reality<br/>Realities 56<br/>Top-down: uppers and lowers, North and South 58<br/>Normal teaching 59<br/>Normal (successful) careers 63<br/>Normal.development bureaucracy 63<br/>Model-Ts and the transfer of technology 67<br/>Model-Ts in agriculture 68<br/>The transfer of procedures (TOP) 71<br/>Dominant realities 74<br/>5.All Power Deceives<br/>Power as disability 76<br/>Whose reality? Whose fantasy? 77<br/>Uppers' impediments 78<br/>Lowers' strategies 84<br/>Self-sustaining myth 88<br/>Out-of-touch, out-of-date and wrong 91<br/>Patriarchal prisoners 91<br/>Academic lags 92<br/>Confirmation by questionnaire 93<br/>World Bank and self-deceiving state 97<br/>Whose reality counts? 100<br/>6.Learning to Learn<br/>The challenges 102<br/>Streams of change 103<br/>PPvA: confluence and spread 113<br/>RRA and PRA compared 115<br/>A menu for RRA and PRA 116<br/>Practical applications 119<br/>Participatory alternatives to questionnaire surveys 122<br/>Insights for policy 125<br/>Why did it take us so long? 128<br/>7.What Works and Why<br/>Insights from the PRA experience 130<br/>Capabilities: they can do it 131<br/>Behaviour and rapport 133<br/>Diagramming and visual sharing 134<br/>Expressing and analysing complexity 135<br/>Sequences 136<br/>Validity and reliability 140<br/>Reversals and reality 146<br/>Reversals of power: from extracting to empowering 154<br/>Principles for participatory learning and analysis 156<br/>A rigour of trustworthiness and relevance 158<br/>Concluding 161<br/>8.Poor People's Realities: Local, Complex, Diverse, Dynamic and Unpredictable<br/>Poor people's realities 162<br/>Local livelihood strategies: complex and diverse 163<br/>Complexity and diversity in farming, pastoral and<br/>forest systems 167<br/>Complex and diverse for livelihood flows, security and<br/>well-being 170<br/>Complexity, diversity and dynamism underperceived 172<br/>Whose priorities count? 174<br/>Who takes the long view? 174<br/>Income, wealth and well-being 176<br/>Whose preferences and criteria count? 179<br/>Diversity within the community 183<br/>Reversals for complexity and diversity 187<br/>9 The New High Ground<br/>Paradigms and development 188<br/>The new high ground 190<br/>Parallel evolutions 192<br/>Natural sciences 193<br/>Chaos and complexity theory 194<br/>Social sciences 195<br/>Business management 196<br/>Permanently provisional: the evolving paradigm 197<br/>Diversity and choice: from packages to baskets 201<br/>The fifth D: doubt, and self-critical awareness 201<br/>Practical reflections from PRA 206<br/>Empowerment: lowers can do it 206<br/>Uppers' behaviour and attitudes 207<br/>PRA and development discourse 209<br/>10 Putting the First Last<br/>The challenge 210<br/>Bad practice 211<br/>Synergies 214<br/>Empowerment 216<br/>To change institutions 220<br/>Pressures from below: lowers versus uppers 223<br/>New professionalism 228<br/>The primacy of the personal 231<br/>Putting the first last 234<br/>So what? Start! 236<br/>Postscript: Past and Future 238<br/>PRA Contacts and Sources of Information 240<br/>Notes 241<br/>References 255<br/>Index 284<br/> |
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| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | UK |
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| Topic | FP |
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