Jethro Pettit
Biographic Data
| ID | 1401518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jethro Pettit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jethro |
| FAMILY NAME | Pettit |
| SIGNATURE | PETTIT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Development Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Why Citizens don’t Engage – Power, Poverty and Civic Habitus
Poor people have been recast by development agencies from ‘beneficiaries’ to ‘engaged citizens’ – yet the assumptions behind many democracy and accountability programmes remain simplistic. Power defines and constrains citizen engagement, which takes place against a backdrop of complex histories of exclusion, discrimination and violence. Poor people’s access to income, services or benefits can rely on patronage relations which they may be wisely r…
Power Above and Below the Waterline
The power relations that underlie poverty and exclusion can make or break development programmes, if not understood and addressed at all stages of design and implementation. Political economy and power analysis represent distinct but complementary approaches to making sense of power in the context of development initiatives. Both approaches are used to provide organisations with a better understanding of key actors and their interests, and of the…
Getting to Grips with Power
The transformative promises of participatory and action research can lead to a preoccupation with methods and tools, diverting attention from important questions about politics, purpose, facilitation, and the philosophical and pedagogical claims that underlie the use of these methods. Reflecting on two action learning processes with community leaders and voluntary sector workers in England, which combined a series of reflective workshops with per…
A response to ‘ Powercube
We very much appreciate the opportunity to respond to the thoughtful, though often critical, review of Powercube by Laurence Cox. And we also appreciate the fact that the Journal of Political Power
Multiple Faces of Power and Learning
Power relations are seen by many as an obstacle to reducing poverty and inequality. There is a growing appetite for understanding power and for being more strategic about it, and a number of useful frameworks are now available. But the complexity of power makes it difficult to know which concepts to use, or how to develop capacities to put them into practice. This article argues that these questions need to be answered together: the multiple face…
Citizens' media and communication
Citizens' media and communication are still poorly understood in the mainstream of development policy and practice – and are prone to simplistic forms of implementation, because of the lack of a coherent grasp of the social, cultural, and political processes that make them transformative. Introducing the articles in this guest issue, the authors find that citizens' media is about more than bringing diverse voices into pluralist politics: it contr…
Springs of Participation
Learning and teaching participation through action research
In a time of rapid change, when global forces are re-shaping the ability of ordinary people to influence the decisions which affect their lives, social change practitioners are challenged to learn new skills and competences, and to develop their capacities for learning through critical reflection on action. Drawing on two international dialogues, and linking to the authors' perceptions of the fault-lines that underlie some elements of higher educ…
Power and Pedagogy
Introduction
1 Linking participation with power Concepts and methods of 'participation' are used increasingly throughout the world in shaping policy and in delivering services. At the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) we are finding that these participatory approaches throw new light on the complex interactions within and between society and state institutions at local, national and global levels. Participatory approaches lead to questions about how diff…
Developing Rights? Relating Discourse to Context and Practice
Climate Justice
Development and the Learning Organisation
We are aware that an increasing number of NGOs, particularly some of the large international ones, as well as some bilateral and multilateral actors, are embracing the idea of 'becoming a learning organisation'. Over the past decade, as NGOs have either rushed into the mainstream in their claims of innovative and effective practice, or they have tried to transform themselves to fit new realities, organisational learning has emerged as one way to …
Strengthening Local Organisation
As aid agencies embrace the concept of strengthening local organisation as an end rather than a means for achieving project objectives, there is need for wider understanding of best practice and lessons learnt in organisational development at the grassroots level. Four case studies are examined here from the international non-governmental organisation world (Haiti, Peru, Mali and Nepal). Key implications for practice and policy are drawn from the…
Development and the Learning Organisation
We are aware that an increasing number of NGOs, particularly some of the large international ones, as well as some bilateral and multilateral actors, are embracing the idea of 'becoming a learning organisation'. Over the past decade, as NGOs have either rushed into the mainstream in their claims of innovative and effective practice, or they have tried to transform themselves to fit new realities, organisational learning has emerged as one way to …
Learning and teaching participation through action research
In a time of rapid change, when global forces are re-shaping the ability of ordinary people to influence the decisions which affect their lives, social change practitioners are challenged to learn new skills and competences, and to develop their capacities for learning through critical reflection on action. Drawing on two international dialogues, and linking to the authors' perceptions of the fault-lines that underlie some elements of higher educ…
Climate Justice
Developing Rights? Relating Discourse to Context and Practice
Why Citizens don’t Engage – Power, Poverty and Civic Habitus
Poor people have been recast by development agencies from ‘beneficiaries’ to ‘engaged citizens’ – yet the assumptions behind many democracy and accountability programmes remain simplistic. Power defines and constrains citizen engagement, which takes place against a backdrop of complex histories of exclusion, discrimination and violence. Poor people’s access to income, services or benefits can rely on patronage relations which they may be wisely r…
Getting to Grips with Power
The transformative promises of participatory and action research can lead to a preoccupation with methods and tools, diverting attention from important questions about politics, purpose, facilitation, and the philosophical and pedagogical claims that underlie the use of these methods. Reflecting on two action learning processes with community leaders and voluntary sector workers in England, which combined a series of reflective workshops with per…
A response to ‘ Powercube
We very much appreciate the opportunity to respond to the thoughtful, though often critical, review of Powercube by Laurence Cox. And we also appreciate the fact that the Journal of Political Power
Citizens' media and communication
Citizens' media and communication are still poorly understood in the mainstream of development policy and practice – and are prone to simplistic forms of implementation, because of the lack of a coherent grasp of the social, cultural, and political processes that make them transformative. Introducing the articles in this guest issue, the authors find that citizens' media is about more than bringing diverse voices into pluralist politics: it contr…
Introduction
1 Linking participation with power Concepts and methods of 'participation' are used increasingly throughout the world in shaping policy and in delivering services. At the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) we are finding that these participatory approaches throw new light on the complex interactions within and between society and state institutions at local, national and global levels. Participatory approaches lead to questions about how diff…
Power Above and Below the Waterline
The power relations that underlie poverty and exclusion can make or break development programmes, if not understood and addressed at all stages of design and implementation. Political economy and power analysis represent distinct but complementary approaches to making sense of power in the context of development initiatives. Both approaches are used to provide organisations with a better understanding of key actors and their interests, and of the…
Power and Pedagogy
Strengthening Local Organisation
As aid agencies embrace the concept of strengthening local organisation as an end rather than a means for achieving project objectives, there is need for wider understanding of best practice and lessons learnt in organisational development at the grassroots level. Four case studies are examined here from the international non-governmental organisation world (Haiti, Peru, Mali and Nepal). Key implications for practice and policy are drawn from the…
Development and the Learning Organisation
We are aware that an increasing number of NGOs, particularly some of the large international ones, as well as some bilateral and multilateral actors, are embracing the idea of 'becoming a learning organisation'. Over the past decade, as NGOs have either rushed into the mainstream in their claims of innovative and effective practice, or they have tried to transform themselves to fit new realities, organisational learning has emerged as one way to …
Climate Justice
Developing Rights? Relating Discourse to Context and Practice
Power and Pedagogy
Introduction
1 Linking participation with power Concepts and methods of 'participation' are used increasingly throughout the world in shaping policy and in delivering services. At the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) we are finding that these participatory approaches throw new light on the complex interactions within and between society and state institutions at local, national and global levels. Participatory approaches lead to questions about how diff…
Springs of Participation
Learning and teaching participation through action research
In a time of rapid change, when global forces are re-shaping the ability of ordinary people to influence the decisions which affect their lives, social change practitioners are challenged to learn new skills and competences, and to develop their capacities for learning through critical reflection on action. Drawing on two international dialogues, and linking to the authors' perceptions of the fault-lines that underlie some elements of higher educ…
Citizens' media and communication
Citizens' media and communication are still poorly understood in the mainstream of development policy and practice – and are prone to simplistic forms of implementation, because of the lack of a coherent grasp of the social, cultural, and political processes that make them transformative. Introducing the articles in this guest issue, the authors find that citizens' media is about more than bringing diverse voices into pluralist politics: it contr…
Multiple Faces of Power and Learning
Power relations are seen by many as an obstacle to reducing poverty and inequality. There is a growing appetite for understanding power and for being more strategic about it, and a number of useful frameworks are now available. But the complexity of power makes it difficult to know which concepts to use, or how to develop capacities to put them into practice. This article argues that these questions need to be answered together: the multiple face…
A response to ‘ Powercube
We very much appreciate the opportunity to respond to the thoughtful, though often critical, review of Powercube by Laurence Cox. And we also appreciate the fact that the Journal of Political Power
Getting to Grips with Power
The transformative promises of participatory and action research can lead to a preoccupation with methods and tools, diverting attention from important questions about politics, purpose, facilitation, and the philosophical and pedagogical claims that underlie the use of these methods. Reflecting on two action learning processes with community leaders and voluntary sector workers in England, which combined a series of reflective workshops with per…
Power Above and Below the Waterline
The power relations that underlie poverty and exclusion can make or break development programmes, if not understood and addressed at all stages of design and implementation. Political economy and power analysis represent distinct but complementary approaches to making sense of power in the context of development initiatives. Both approaches are used to provide organisations with a better understanding of key actors and their interests, and of the…
Why Citizens don’t Engage – Power, Poverty and Civic Habitus
Poor people have been recast by development agencies from ‘beneficiaries’ to ‘engaged citizens’ – yet the assumptions behind many democracy and accountability programmes remain simplistic. Power defines and constrains citizen engagement, which takes place against a backdrop of complex histories of exclusion, discrimination and violence. Poor people’s access to income, services or benefits can rely on patronage relations which they may be wisely r…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Citation (4 works) · Transformative learning (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · OpenAccess (3 works)