| Description |
xvii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Definitions, History and Issues -- 1. Participation, empowerment and sustainable development / Rachel Slocum and Barbara Thomas-Slayter -- 2. A brief history of participatory methodologies / Barbara Thomas-Slayter -- 3. Participation in context: key questions / Dianne Rocheleau and Rachel Slocum -- Pt. II. Methods and Ethics in Our Research and in Our Use of Media -- 4. Women's rendering of rights and space: reflections on feminist research methods / Louise Fortmann -- 5. Media ethics: no magic solutions / Renuka Bery -- Pt. III. Tools for Environmental and Social Change -- 6. How to use the tools and how to facilitate -- Activities, Resources and Benefits Analysis -- Advocacy Planning -- Communicating with Officials and Outsiders -- Community Drama -- Conflict Resolution I: Definition -- Conflict Resolution II: Walking in Others' Shoes -- Conflict Resolution III: Negotiation -- Division of Labour -- Focus Groups -- Gender Analysis Activity Profile -- Gender Myths -- Gendered Resource Mapping -- Group Definition -- Household Interviews -- Institutional Diagramming and Analysis -- Land Use Feltboard -- Landscape/Lifescape Mapping -- Legal Rights I: Education -- Legal Rights II: The Woman's Walk -- Mapping the Body -- Network Formation -- Oral Life Histories -- Personal and Household Resources -- Photography -- Problem Solving: Trees, Ranking, Assessment -- Seasonal Activities Calendar -- Social Network Mapping -- Study Trips -- Time Line Variations -- Transects -- Video I: Developing a Community Project -- Video II: Demystifying the Technology -- Wealth Ranking -- Who Am I? -- Who Decides? |
| Summary |
"The book provides a brief overview of participatory approaches to development and includes discussion of important contextual issues such as power relationships within a community and between local institutions and outsiders. It explores the opportunities for using multi-media tools to strengthen the impact of the other tools in consciousness-raising, data-gathering advocacy and community decision-making and action." -- BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Politics Participation of Individuals |
| Notes |
First publishedin 1995, reprinted in 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Community development.
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Community development -- Developing countries.
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Economic development -- Citizen participation.
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Group decision making.
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Rural development.
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Social change -- Citizen participation.
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Community development -- Developing countries -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Social participation -- Developing countries -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Social participation -- Developing countries.
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Women in development.
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| Author |
Rocheleau, Dianne E., editor
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Slocum, Rachel B., 1964- editor
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Thomas-Slayter, Barbara P., editor
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Wichhart, Lori, editor
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| ISBN |
1853393037 |
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9781853393037 |
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