Liberating Development Inquiry: Freedom, Openness and Participation in Fieldwork

Format:Book
Publication year: 
2017

In this chapter, Robert Chambers and Nicholas Loubere have a conversation in which they discuss: the nature of Robert's research; his contribution to development; shifts in the methodological mainstream; inherent tensions in development research; the limits of freedom and participation; power verses democracy; ignorance, biases and misconceptions in research; local knowledge and multiple realities; how to move from extraction to co-production; positionality, engagement and dissemination; and pluralism and emergence.  The text is based on an audio recording of an interview that took place at IDS in June 2014.

Pages: 
20
In: 
Understanding Global Development Research: field issues, experiences and reflections
Publisher
Sage
London, UK
Editor: 
Gordon Crawford et al