Grassroot Horizons: Connecting participatory development initiatives East and West

Grassroot activists and researchers build on their varied personal experiences to clarify and strengthen the effectiveness of participatory group action in overcoming impoverishment, oppression and exclusion.

Sommario

Part 1 A workshop that connected: why was the workshop special. Part 2 Identity and solidarity: the foreign missionary enters Filipino soil - recall the disconnections; grassroots communicative action and cultural renewal - Bangladesh initiatives; single mothers uniting against poverty; vital signs - deaf identity and the paradox of difference; an alternative development paradigm (with insert, poverty and humanhood). Part 3 Building spaces within the structures: ODISCO's support to sustainable agriculture; reviving neighbourhood capabilities; building on good faith; self-reliance among the rural poor - learning processes in North India; community-based, community-determined education - new people/university partnership. Part 4 Transformations west and east: coalition-building in diversity; after the global forum - changes south and north; sustainable agriculture - communication and market-building; forests for life - Thai community approaches to biodiversity conservation; social justice and sustainability - alternative paradigms in practice; futures in the past.

Info autore

He has co-coordinated the Participatory Development Group and Forum with Kersten Johnson at the East-West Center, where he is Senior Fellow Emeritus.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Richard Morse
• Con la collaborazione di: Kersten L Johnson (Editore), Kersten L. Johnson (Editore), Kirsten L. Johnson (Editore), Richard Merse (Editore), Richard Morse (Editore), Richard (Senior Fellow Morse (Editore), Anisur Rahman (Editore)
• Editore: Practical Action Publishing
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781853392900
• ISBN: 978-1-85339-290-0
• Pagine: 396
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 241 mm x 30 mm
• Peso: 620 g
• Serie: Connecting Participatory Devel; Connecting Participatory Devel
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie