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Policy Suggestions for Greater Financial Stability

Published by: IDS

When Social Movements Bypass the Poor: Asbestos Pollution, International Litigation and Griqua Cultural Identity

This article examines citizen mobilisation and activism in relation to asbestos disease and litigation.

Pedagogy for Development: Some Reflections on Method

Published by: IDS

An increasing emphasis on learning as engine of change has led to the evolution of new informal approaches to education. By means of a presentation of a case study of a rural development project in southern Tajikistan implemented by a local NGO, this paper discusses the use of discovery-based pedagogical methods for transformative learning, the goal of which is to create a process to support participants in developing tools for critical reflective thinking aimed at producing social change.

Locating the Field: Space, Place and Context in Anthropology

Published by: Berg

Are reports of the death of conventional fieldwork in anthropology greatly exaggerated? This book takes a critical look at the latest developments and key issues in fieldwork.

The Internet, Cybercafés and the New Social Spaces of Bangalorean Youth

Published by: Berg

Bangalore has become something of a poster boy of the ‘information age’of late, a city at the centre of the relatively successful...

Somewhere Over the Rainbow? The Politics and Dilemmas of Researching Citizenship and Marginality

Published by: IDS

Research on development is normative, engaged and seeks to make a difference since it focuses on the excluded, on power relations and aims at the empowerment of the voiceless and increasingly on the 'pedagogy of the powerful'. This makes it even more loaded and contested than other kinds of research.

The Discordant Voices of ‘Security’

I’ve Got the Dust as Well’: Asbestos Disease, Litigation and Laggers

Published by: IDS

Asbestos diseases are closely associated with cancer and death. They are therefore widely recognised for their insidious, fearsome and tainted nature. Through an examination of stress associated with disease, the paper explores the medical and legal framings of asbestos disease in the UK and complements them with an investigation of laggers?

From PRA to PLA to Pluralism: Practice and Theory

Published by: IDS

PRA (participatory rural appraisal) and the more inclusive PLA (participatory learning and action) are families of participatory methodologies which have evolved as behaviours and attitudes, methods, and practices of sharing. During the 1990s and 2000s PRA/PLA has spread and been applied in most countries in the world.

Participatory Video Resource List

Published by: IDS

Complied by the Participation, Power and Social Change Team at the Institute of Development Studies