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Journal Article

IDS Bulletin 37.6

Transforming Power: From Zero-Sum to Win-Win?

Published on 1 November 2006

Being asked by the editors to describe my personal journey to a current focus on issues of power, and striving to do this in a spirit of critical reflection, has startled me with what I have found and how it has influenced the argument of this article.

At some level, I already knew this but never before have I seen so clearly how it coheres. Four influences and tendencies appear to have intermingled.

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Chambers, R. (2006) Transforming Power: From Zero?Sum to Win?Win?. IDS Bulletin 37(6): 99-110

Authors

Robert Chambers

Emeritus Fellow and Research Associate

Publication details

authors
Chambers, Robert
journal
IDS Bulletin, volume 37, issue 6
doi
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2006.tb00327.x
language
English

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