CONTENTS Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xv Acronyms and abbreviations xvii Photographs xxi 1 Purring the Last First: Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers 1 Andrea Cornwall and lan Scoones PART 1 - Conceptualizing Development 2Challenging Development Priorities 23 Richardjolly 3 Beginners in Africa: Managing Rural Development 31 Jon R. Moris 4The Path from Managerialism to Participation: The Kenyan Special Rural Development Programme 39 David K. Leonard 5 Foxes and Hedgehogs - and Lions: Whose Reality Prevails? 45 Paul Spencer 6Administration and Development 53 Colin Fuller 7 Participation in International Aid 59 Rosalind Eyben 8 Power and Participation 67 John Gaventa 9 Refraining Development 75 Andrea Cornwall PART 2- Rural Development, Poverty and Livelihoods 10 Exploring Sustainable Livelihoods 85 Gordon Conway 11Putting the Vulnerable First 93 Stephen Devereitx 12 Seasonality: Uncovering the Obvious and Implementing the Complex 101 Richard Longhurst 13 Refugee Studies 107 Barbara Harrell-Bond 14 Farmer First: Reversals for Agricultural Research 113 Jacqueline A. Ashby 15 Agricultural Development: Parsimonious Paradigms 121 Janice Jiggins 16 In Search of a Water Revolution: Canal Irrigation Management 129 Roberta Lenton 17 The Last Frontier: The Groundwater Revolution in South Asia 135 Tushaar Shah 18 Trees as Assets: Legacies and Lessons 141 Melissa Leach 19 Finding a Sustainable Sanitation Solution: Scaling up Community-Led Total Sanitation 149 Kamal Kar 20 Technology and Markets 155 Barbara Harriss- White PART 3- Methodological Innovations 21 Village Studies 165 John Harriss 22 Whose Knowledge Counts? Tales of an Eclectic Participatory Pluralist 173 John 'Ihompson and Irene Guijt 23 Learning to Unlearn: Creating a Virtuous Learning Cycle 181 Parmesh Shah and Meera Kaut Shah 24 The Use of Participatory Methods to Study Natural Resources 187 Louise Fortmann 25 Participatory Numbers 197 Carlos Barahona PART 4 - Practising Development: New Professionalism 26 The Personal and the Political 205 Ramesh Singb 27 Poverty Professionals and Poverty 211 Ravi Kanbur 28 Changing Attitudes and Behaviour 217 Sam Joseph 29 Networking: Building a Global Movement for PRA and other Participatory Methods 225 Samuel Musembi Musyoki 30 Institutional Learning and Change 233 Jamie Watts 31 Participation, Learning and Accountability: The Role of the Activist Academic 241 Rosalind David and Antonella Mancini 32 Development Professionalism 249 Norman Uphoff 33 Appreciation and Reflections 257 Robert Chambers Appendix: List of Robert Chambers' Publications 261 References 281 Index 303