Autonomous Development: Humanizing the Landscape : An Excursion into Radical Thinking and Practice - Couverture souple

Carmen, Raff

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1856493881 ISBN 13 : 9781856493888

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

At a time of widespread disillusion as to what development has in practice done to the lives of hundreds of millions of marginalised people over the past 40 years, this book seeks to reclaim development as a project of people‘s own autonomous agency.

Born out of three decades of field experience and working with ‘Third World‘ students, it revisits the primary question of what development ought really to be about.

Raff Carmen starts from the conviction that development is too important to be left to the developers. He critically examines what has gone on under its name, finding it wanting both as an epistemological category and a sound operational practice. Instead, he presents a counter-view of development as an act of creation whereby people exercise their inalienable right ‘to invent their own future‘ as authors of an ongoing process of transforming and humanising the landscapes they inhabit.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Raff Carmen is an emeritus professor at the University of Manchester.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856493881
• ISBN 13: 9781856493888
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne