Religion and Urbanism: Reconceptualising Sustainable Cities for South Asia, Narayanan Yamini

Автор: Thomas Tom, Narayanan Pradeep
Название: Participation Pays: Pathways for Post 2015
ISBN: 1853398705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853398704
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The processes of international development often mean that beneficiaries have pre-designed programmes imposed upon them. Even the most well-intentioned development projects are often constrained by funding requirements from fulfilling their vision of social justice, with the result that poor, marginalized communities feel even more disempowered and excluded by programmes over which they have no control. Participation Pays attempts to show how beneficiaries of aid can challenge and overcome conventional power arrangements set up by donors and development agencies. It does so through a focus on community knowledge and self-generated data, control of which enables greater ownership and direction of development processes. These projects involved members of marginalized and resource-poor communities including landless people, female sex workers, tribal people, and people affected by a natural disaster. Eight thematic case studies are featured, seven from India and one from the Maldives. Participation Pays argues for the need, in any vibrant democracy, for multiple ways of making development more accountable to excluded communities. In doing so, the book invites an understanding of marginalized people not simply as beneficiaries of technical solutions, but -through the work of participatory development projects - architects of a politics of equity and democratization.

1. Introduction: powering knowledge from the margins

2. Breaking the barriers to information: community-led land mapping in Bihar

3. Building consensus methodically: community rebuilding in the Maldives

4. Knowledge base: towards a community-owned monitoring system

5. Lost policies: locating access to infrastructure and services in rural India

6. A new deluge? People and aid in the aftermath of disaster

7. Subverting for good: sex workers and stigma

8. Making people count: from beneficiaries to evaluators

9. Reimagining development: marginalized people and the post-2015 agenda

10. Conclusion: pathways to post-2015

Автор: Vivek, Narayanan
Название: Life and times of mr. s
ISBN: 9350294095 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789350294093
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: 'Life and Times of Mr S' worked for me like magic. It unsettled my notion of what was real, what possible, and resettled that notion in a strange luminous place. Narayanan uses what he sees as singular illusions - class, caste, family, for example - to conjure a pluriverse" of his own, crowded with multiple, often polymorphous identities that, by their very nature, could be illusions too. This recalls the work (and play) of magician-acrobats and Narayanan is one of them. Questioning the very nature of reality and the possibility of finding true answers, he pushes at limits, walking a dangerous tightrope. I am dazzled by his dexterity.'-Adil Jussawalla 'This unique and captivating book takes the experiments of G.V. Desani as a starting point and composes a chronicle of living language enacted around the person of Mr S. Lyric and narrative, parodic and reflective, Vivek Narayanan gives us a work of "woof-confidence" rich with mini-disquisitions on desire, guilt, food, caste, malls, etc. It jiggles the hearticles, slugs back the memory jug, and palavers with a laptop. Often on the heels of a round of elaborate, ebullient passages, the reader is brought to a complete stop: "Only in mind's stillness shall the wood apple appear." 'Life and Times of Mr S is a brilliant homage to an ever-morphing language and land.' -C.D. Wright "