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Author: Raff Carmen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Zed Books Ltd
Edition: illustrated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 13.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.363kg
ISBN: 9781856493871
ISBN 10: 1856493873
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 05 February 1996
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
In his lucid, original and challenging style, Raff Carmen strips away the comfortable myths of world development and replaces them with a compelling call to 'humanize the landscape. - Wendy Harcourt, Society for International Development <br> The methods and ideas forcefully expounded by Raff Carmen are of urgent relevance... an explosive critique of dominant top-down and ethnocentric development ideology. - Thierry Verhelst, Network Cultures, author of No Life without Roots <br> Raff Carmen is one of very few challenging and ground-breaking thinkers who can change the way in which we perceive and practise 'development'. In this comprehensive book, he succeeds in interweaving a vast panorama of theories and methodologies with practical case studies to bring complex issues dramatically to life... He convinces us that alternative approaches have worked and can work in the future. - David Archer, Head of International Education, ACTIONAID <br> An incisive look at many of the new ideas around 'development'. Critical, original and accessible. - Ben Oakley, University of Bristol <br> A refreshing and welcome addition to the discourse on South World development. In an era where socio-economic disparities between South and North are increasing, and the mass media give consumers the world according to McCoke, voices like Carmen's are vitally important.... A comprehensive analysis of both the barriers to and hopes for development in the South.... Highly recommended for people interested in people-centred economics. - Professor Farah M. Shroff, University of Toronto <br> Carmen's incisive arguments are thought-provoking and refreshing in their intellectual appeal and pragmatic'development' prescriptions. His whole analysis is based on two pristine principles: People cannot 'be' 'put' first: development is people. People are not the problem: they are the solution. A readable book for the development policy and programme practitioners, social activists and Third World commentators alike. - P. Jegadish Gandhi, Vellore Institute of Development Studies, India<br>
Author Information
Raff Carmen is an emeritus professor at the University of Manchester.
