The Critical Villager: Beyond Community Participation

by Eric Dudley

Overview

When aid to the Third World actually works it is usually on such a small scale that it makes little impact on the world's problems. Can demands for generalizable actions be reconciled with location-specific solutions? The Critical Villager considers how community-based technical aid can be made more effective and sustainable. Calling for development workers, policy makers and researchers to put themselves in the place of the intended beneficiaries of aid, it suggests concrete principles for action and research. It argues that participatory research and 'transfer of technology' should not be regarded as rival models for development but rather as complementary components in a single process of effective aid.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134906604
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/11/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Eric Dudley

Table of Contents

Introduction Part A. Reasonable Chapter 1. The Big Idea Chapter 2. Recognized Authorities Chapter 3. Maximum Serendipity Part B. Recognizable Chapter 4.Tangible Entities Chapter 5. Clear Visual Messages Part C. Respectable Chapter 6. Modern Imagery Chapter 7. Influential People Chapter 8. Multile Agendas Conclusions References