Who's a goody? Demythologizing the PRA agenda

Post‐sustainable development

“…Unfortunately participation is often assumed to be another word for 'panacea' (Bevan, 2000;King, 2003). Indeed since the late 1990s a number of critiques (Cooke and Kothari, 2001;Mansuri and Rao, 2004) and counter-critiques (Mutamba, 2004;Parfitt, 2004;Williams, 2004a) of participation in Intentional development have been published, but this debate is rarely, if ever, echoed within the SD literature.…”

Post‐sustainable development

“…Unfortunately participation is often assumed to be another word for 'panacea' (Bevan, 2000;King, 2003). Indeed since the late 1990s a number of critiques (Cooke and Kothari, 2001;Mansuri and Rao, 2004) and counter-critiques (Mutamba, 2004;Parfitt, 2004;Williams, 2004a) of participation in Intentional development have been published, but this debate is rarely, if ever, echoed within the SD literature.…”

Post‐sustainable development

“…Unfortunately participation is often assumed to be another word for 'panacea' (Bevan, 2000;King, 2003). Indeed since the late 1990s a number of critiques (Cooke and Kothari, 2001;Mansuri and Rao, 2004) and counter-critiques (Mutamba, 2004;Parfitt, 2004;Williams, 2004a) of participation in Intentional development have been published, but this debate is rarely, if ever, echoed within the SD literature.…”

Post‐sustainable development

“…Unfortunately participation is often assumed to be another word for 'panacea' (Bevan, 2000;King, 2003). Indeed since the late 1990s a number of critiques (Cooke and Kothari, 2001;Mansuri and Rao, 2004) and counter-critiques (Mutamba, 2004;Parfitt, 2004;Williams, 2004a) of participation in Intentional development have been published, but this debate is rarely, if ever, echoed within the SD literature.…”