Autonomous Development: An Excursion into Radical Thinking and Practice
Raff Carmen
ISBN 10: 1856493881 ISBN 13: 9781856493888
Published by Zed Books, 1996
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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.
About the Author: Raff Carmen currently coordinates the Masters and post-graduate research programmes in Adult Education, Adult Literacy and Rural Social/Community Development at the University of Manchester.
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Title: Autonomous Development: An Excursion into ...
Publisher: Zed Books
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good