Revolutionizing Development: Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers

by Ian Scoones

This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambers. His work has taken him from being a colonial officer in Kenya through training and managing large rural development projects to a fundamental critique of top-down development and the championing of participatory approaches. The contributors eloquently demonstrate how he has been at the centre of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849713308
• ISBN13: 9781849713306
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"