Autonomous Development

From the Microfinance website: "At a time of widespread disillusion with what development has done to the lives... of marginalised people over the past 40 years, this book revisits the primary question of what it [development] ought... to be about.

Drawing on the reflections and writings of Latin American, Asian and African development activists and thinkers whose work is... little known outside their own continents, Raff Carmen finds development wanting both as an epistemological category and as a sound operational practice.

His book presents a counter-view in terms of which development ought to become a project of people's own autonomous agency. People, [according to Carmen], need to be free as subjects of the process of change, 'inventing their own future' as authors of a culturally-embedded, gender-permeated, economic and political process of transforming and humanizing the landscapes they inhabit."

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