This book is about participatory development's potential for tyranny, showing how it can lead
to the unjust and illegitimate exercise of power. It is the first book-length treatment to address …

This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a
versatile and powerful method of research-focus groups. The book challenges some of the …

The processes by which women living in rural areas of Nepal acquire literacy and deploy it
for their own purposes were examined in an exploration of the diverse perspectives of …

The series focuses on the interface between childhood studies and international
development. Children and young people often feature as targets of development or are …

This book deals with two major issues: how Indonesian NGOs survived under Suharto's
authoritarian rule; and how NGOs contributed to the promotion of democracy in the post …

Ideologies of participatory development promoted by development organizations in
Tanzania are at odds with popular aspirations. Popular understandings of development …

Process" approaches to economic and social development appear to be more flexible and
offer greater prospects of success than traditional" project" methods. Development as …

The turn to the use of mixed qualitative and quantitative (Q-Squared) methods in the
analysis of poverty is a welcome development with large potential payoffs. While the benefits …

A timely, ethnographically informed account of the" development state" of Tanzania, showing
how development practice and culture have become integrated into everyday life, politically …

This book deals with some new approaches to information management in development
programmes referred to as' process documentation'or'process monitoring'. While these …