TY - BOOK AU - Peters,Pauline E. TI - Development encounters : : sitesof participation and knowledge SN - 0674002601 U1 - 338.9 PY - 2000///] CY - Massachusetts PB - Harvard Institute for International Development KW - Economic conditions. KW - Economic development KW - Citizen participation N1 - Encountering participation and knowledge in development sites / Pauline E. Peters -- The micro politics of participatory projects: an anatomy of change in two villages / Ajay Mehta -- Decentralization, participation, and representation: administrative apartheid in Sahelian forestry / Jesse C. Ribot -- New challenges for alternative ways of development among indigenous peoples of the Amazon / Margarita Benavides -- Battlefields of wits: interface between NGOs, government, and donors at the development site / Isaac N. Mazonde -- The routinization of participation: emerging norms, local participation, and conflict management in Latin America / Theodore Macdonald -- Writing against hegemony: development encounters in Zimbabwe and Malawi / Anne Ferguson and Bill Derman -- Developing international health science research: measuring or marginalizing quality / James A. Trostle -- Rethinking the role of elites in rural development: a case study from Cameroon / Paul Nchoji Nkwi N2 - Development researchers share their ideas and experience on the different forms taken by participation and knowledge in the practice of development. The encounters described in this text took place in sites ranging from Amazon villages to research laboratories in Central Africa. ER -