Sustainable development at the sharp end
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3886141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cecile Jackson (0000-0001-6362-9808, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 237-247 |
| Publication date | 1997-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development in Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09614529754477 |
| OpenAlex | W2053246510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 2 |
This paper takes an actor-oriented approach to understanding the significance for policy and practice of field-worker experience at the interface between project and people. It is set in the context of an Indian project which aims to reduce poverty through sustainable, participatory agricultural change, based on low-cost inputs, catalysed by village-based project staff. Diaries kept by such staff are analysed to reveal how the social position of field-workers enables and constrains their interactions within and without the project, and the ways in which ‘street level bureaucrats’ shape projects through their discretionary actions. They show the Village Motivators struggling to communicate project objectives, to establish their roles and distinguish themselves fromother village-level bureaucrats, to negotiate participation, to overcome hostility to Participatory Rural Appraisal, to arbitrate access to consultants and seniors, to interpret project objectives and lobby for changes in these without admission of failure, and finally to develop a shared vocabulary of participation and belief in success. Some of the implications for participatory approaches are that there may be significant contradictions between sustainability and participatory development
Business · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Ethnology · Natural resource economics · Political science · Sociology · South asia · Sustainable development · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
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Unpacking 'Participation'
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Academics doing participatory disaster research
Monitoring progress towards gender-equitable poverty alleviation
Negotiating Gender Relations
Creating Direct Incentives for Wildlife Conservation in Community-Based Natural Resource Management Programmes in Botswana
Issues in measuring success in community-based Indigenous tourism
Neoliberal development through technical assistance
Disobedient Distributors
Whose lives are worth more? Politicising research safety in developing countries
Who cares? The personal and professional problems of NGO fieldworkers in Bangladesh
Perceptions and practices of monitoring and evaluation
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,52 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2017 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |