Power and participatory development : theory and practice / edited by Nici Nelson and Susan Wright.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225).

Participation and power / Nici Nelson, Susan Wright -- Participation and power : a transformative feminist research perspective / Joke Schrijvers -- Paradigm shifts and the practice of participatory research and development / Robert Chambers -- Participatory research and participant observation : two incompatible approaches / Susan Wright, Nici Nelson -- Theatre for development : listening to the community / Alex Mavrocordatos, Pathika Martin -- A multi-method approach to the study of homelessness / Fatima Akilu -- Farmers as analysts, facilitators and decision-makers / Parmesh Shah -- Who speaks for whom? Outsiders re-present women pioneers of the forests of Mexico / Janet Townsend -- Participatory research on non-European immigration to Italy / Vanessa Maher -- Power to the people : rethinking community development / Donald Curtis -- Shifting power, sharing power : issues from user-group forestry in Nepal / Jane Gronow -- Empowerment and community care for older people / Kevin F. Meethan -- Local institutions and power : the history and practice of community management of tank irrigation systems in south India / David Mosse -- Institutionalizing adaptive planning and local level concerns : looking to the future / Jules N. Pretty, Ian Scoones -- Participatory ideology and practical development : agency control in a fisheries project, Kariba Lake / Karim Hussein -- Non-governmental organizations and participatory development : the concept in theory versus the concept in practice / Jacqueline Lane -- Popular participation in aid-assisted projects : why more in theory than practice? / Rosalind Eyben, Sarah Ladbury.