The field of development is subject to shifts in paradigms, and it is important to examine systematically how these are realized in actual practice. Two currently favored approaches are participation and indigenous knowledge. In this volume's collected papers, development researchers and practitioners share their ideas and experience on the different forms taken by participation and knowledge, not limited to "indigenous" knowledge, in the practice of development. The "development encounters" they describe took place in sites ranging from villages in the Amazon, India, and southern Africa to research laboratories and corporate boardrooms in central Africa, Latin America, and the United States.  This timely and grounded account of participation and knowledge in the front lines will be of interest to a range of practitioners, analysts, and students of development.

Development Encounters: Sites of Participation and Knowledge

Business & Money

Ferguson, Anne

Benavides, Margarita

MacDonald, Theodore

Mazonde, Isaac

Mehta, Ajay

Nkwi, Paul

Ribot, Jesse

Trostle, James

Economics

Harvard Kennedy School

<p> The field of development is subject to shifts in paradigms, and it is important to examine systematically how these are realized in actual practice. Two currently favored approaches are participation and indigenous knowledge. In this volume's collected papers, development researchers and practitioners share their ideas and experience on the different forms taken by participation and knowledge, not limited to "indigenous" knowledge, in the practice of development. The "development encounters" they describe took place in sites ranging from villages in the Amazon, India, and southern Africa to research laboratories and corporate boardrooms in central Africa, Latin America, and the United States. </p>
<p> This timely and grounded account of participation and knowledge in the front lines will be of interest to a range of practitioners, analysts, and students of development. </p>

Development Encounters

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