Participation of the Rural Poor in Development

Contents: Preface for 2000/Md. Anisur Rahman. I. Pre-thinking : 1. Concept of an inquiry/Md. Anisur Rahman. II. Case studies : 1. Grassroots initiatives: i. Bhoomi Sena: a land army. ii. Ode to Attock. iii. 'What's the difference?'/Santiago Roca with Miguel Bachrach and Jose Servat. iv. With 'carino'/Gonzalo Falabella. v. With the torrante in the trail/Gonzalo Falabella. 2. Initiatives from above: i. The small farmers' groups in Nepal/Dharam Ghai and Anisur Rahman. ii. Go Ujamaa?/Justin Maeda, Dharam Ghai and Reginald Green. iii. Peasants in revolution/Alula Abate and Tefaye Teklu. 4. Science and people: 1. A people's science movement/K. P Kannan. III. Knitting together : 1. Reflections/ Md. Anisur Rahman. 2. Talking about people's power. IV. Action research : 1. The challenge of action research/Orlando Fals-Borda. 2. People's law/The International Centre for Law in Development. "This work is the first in two-volume series edited by the author on the subject of participatory development. In this volume are presented shorter and adapted versions of a first set of empirical studies that the author had initiated in a programme of the International Labour Office in Geneva in the late seventies, and conceptual reflections on the question and problematic of people's participation in development. First published in 1981 in development, the journal of the society for International development, these studies and reflections are among the pioneering works on the subject, which have had considerable impact on intellectual thinking and grassroots activism in 164 pp.…