People's Participation: Challenges ahead

ISBN: 1853394459

Author: Fals-Borda, Orlando

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Product DescriptionPeople's Participation draws on the 165 papers discussed at the 1997 World Congress of Participative Convergence in Knowledge, Space and Time, to present the most significant themes arising from this important event. The book looks at the social, political, economic and cultural movements at the heart of Participative Research - where knowledge, space and time are seen as the principal tools for change for the advancement of peoples. It has been published to promote the ongoing discussion amongst economists, politicians, scholars, NGO workers, policymakers, engineers, scientists, social scientists and all those with a deep interest or involvement with Participatory Approaches and methodologies.About the AuthorOrlando Fals-Borda died in 2008. His perspective built a singular bond between science and politics that changed dramatically the relations between society and knowledge. An essential part of his effort was centered on the construction of a perspective from the border and the periphery, focused on the subordination conditions of the Latin American societies