DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESSES IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Development has been one of the tasks of government and non-governmental institutions in rural environments. For decades, theoreticians of the hegemonic currents of development considered that there was just one solution for development and they did not take into account the fact that the knowledge and experience of the rural population and their practices could have numerous roads and options for development. They did not perceive that such a linear perspective not only caused many failures but also ecological disasters and injustices endured by those who hadn’t even participated in the decisions that affected them.

Citation

Landázuri Benı, G. (2003), "DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESSES IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT", Bell, M.M. and Hendricks, F. (Ed.) Walking Towards Justice: Democratization in Rural Life (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 257-271. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1057-1922(03)09014-0