Members of the Participation Team at IDS were recently asked for their "top book of all time on participation". Each week we'll feature one person’s top book. This week it’s[[{"fid":"484","view_mode":"media_original","fields":{"format":"media_original","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"image of stack of books","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"image of stack of books","height":149,"width":136,"align":"right","style":"padding:0px;margin-left: 15px;","class":"media-element file-media-original"}}]] the turn of Robert Chambers who’s chosen...
Andrea Cornwall’s edited book The Participation Reader (Zed Books, London and New York, 2011). Robert says:
This is a magisterial collection, if a collection can be magisterial, in that it covers a great range of aspects of participation in theory and practice, and opens the mind through its variety. Louise Fortmann’s endorsement says it well – ‘Andrea Cornwall has created a powerful go-to volume on participation, encompassing foundational literature, thoughtful reflections on processes and theories, insightful critiques and inspiring descriptions of participatory initiatives’. If I was to be shipwrecked with one volume on participation, this would top of my list. Nothing to touch it!