Description: How Change Happens : Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Human Development : Oxfam Research Report, Paperback by Krznaric, Roman, ISBN 0855985976, ISBN-13 9780855985974, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Has development thinking become too narrow and specialised? Does it fail to draw on learning from outside the realm of development studies about how social change happens? This report presents an overview of approaches used to explain social change from a wide range of academic perspectives, from history, politics and economics to psychology and geography. These are summarised in a useful table, which presents a series of questions as a flexible tool for thinking about how change happens. The author argues that current development thinking uses only a narrow range of approaches to change and the result is that most development strategies are limited. They: are excessively reformist and insensitive to underlying power and inequalitylargely ignore environmental issuesoverlook the importance of personal relationships and promoting mutual understanding as a strategy for changefail to appreciate fully the contextual factors that limit changelack a multidisciplinary agility to draw on the broad range of approaches to change that exist outside the confines of development studies. There is a need for broader thinking about how change happens, so that we can be more creative in devising strategies and more adept at facing the huge challenges that confront our societies and planet.
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Book Title: How Change Happens : Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Human Dev
Number of Pages: 59 Pages
Publication Name: How Change Happens
Language: English
Publisher: Oxfam Publishing
Item Height: 0.2 in
Subject: Developing & Emerging Countries, Sociology / General
Publication Year: 2007
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 3.9 Oz
Author: Roman. Krznaric
Item Length: 11.7 in
Subject Area: Social Science
Item Width: 8.3 in
Format: Perfect
