Grassroot Horizons

doi:10.3362/9781780445052

Grassroot Horizons

Connecting participatory development initiatives East and West

Richard Morse, Anisur Rahman, Kersten L Johnson

Grassroot activists and researchers build on their varied personal experiences to clarify and strengthen the effectiveness of participatory group action in overcoming impoverishment, oppression and exclusion.

Published: 1995
Pages: 396

eBook: 9781780445052

Paperback: 9781853392900


Preface iii
About the Authors ix
I. A WORKSHOP THAT CONNECTED
1. WHY WAS THE WORKSHOP SPECIAL? 3
Editors, Looking Back 3
Who and Why the Workshop? 4
Criteria of Selection 4
Identifying Participants 5
On the Workshop Process 5
Songs and Opening Style 5
Agenda Review: Divergent Expectations 6
Experience- or Issue-Based Discussion? 7
Ways of Knowing 8
Revolt, Then Bonding 9
Ka'ala: the Weekend and After 9
Experiences and Principles of Participatory Action:
Fifteen Case Profiles 12
Dharma: Self-discipline and Love 12
Integrated Farming in the Philippines: The Whole Person 15
Coalitions of Fisherfolk: From the Visayas to Parliament 18
Creating People's Institutions in Inner City Chicago 19
Adapting Asian Institutions in Rural America 20
Knowing by Seeing, Confidence by Sharing: Newfoundland Model 21
The Deaf in Thailand: Overcoming Cultural Exclusion 23
In the Heajt of India: Education and Structural Struggles 26
Proshika: Plurality of Approaches in Bangladesh 29
"We do it Ourselves": Bangladesh Women's Organization 31
Living Together: A Base Community in Manila 34
Transforming the Law to Support People's Rights 36
Renewal with Nature: The Restoration of Hawaiian Identity 39
Evergreen: An Educational Base for Community Action 41
Single Women against Poverty: Overcoming Exclusion in Canada 43
Reflecting on the Profiles: Issues of Political Economy 43
Qualities and Relationships in Participatory Initiatives 45
Synthesis and Momentum 45
Forging the Synthesis 45
Synthesis Statement 49
Weaving the Lei 52
Editors' Reflections 53
II. IDENTITY AND SOLIDARITY
Preface to Part II 63
2. THE FOREIGN MISSIONARY ENTERS FILIPINO SOIL:
RECALL THE DISCONNECTIONS 67
Sister Christine Tan
3. GRASSROOTS COMMUNICATIVE ACTION AND CULTURAL
RENEWAL: BANGLADESH INITIATIVES 73
Syed A. Rahim
4. SINGLE MOTHERS UNITING AGAINST POVERTY 93
Sharon Taylor
5. SIGNS OF COMMUNITY: DEAF IDENTITY AND THE
PARADOX OF DIFFERENCE 123
Owen Wrigley
6. TOWARDS AN ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM 151
Md. Anisur Rahman
Editors' Reflections, Part II 172
Self and Other: The Insider-Outsider Relationship 172
Help and Autonomy 174
Challenging, Cascading lib
III. BUILDING SPACES TO TRANSFORM THE
STRUCTURES
Preface to Part III 185
Editorial Opener 188
Creating Spaces to Change the Structures 188
7. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES:
THE LAKAS-ODISCO APPROACH 191
Laurentino D. Bascug
8. SELF-RELIANCE AMONG THE RURAL POOR:
LEARNING PROCESSES IN NORTH INDIA 207
Varun Vidyarthi
9. COMMUNITY-BASED, COMMUNITY-DETERMINED
EDUCATION: NEW PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES
AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S COMMUNITIES 229
Russell Fox and Carol Minugh
Addendum: Widening Spaces through Participatory
Video 240
Tony Williamson
10. COALITION-BUILDING IN DIVERSITY 243
Kari Anderson Lende
Editors' Reflections, Part HI 265
Structures, Scale, Coalition-building 265
Counterviolence or Nonviolence? 268
Autonomy, Rights, Nonviolence 271
IV. TRANSFORMATIONS THE COMPASS ROUND
Preface to Part IV 277
Editorial Openers 281
Equity Overcoming Deprivation: First Change the Discourse 281
Moving Inward West and East, North and South:
Control of Assets 284
Self and Other: When We Connect 293
11. THE ENVIRONMENT AND DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES:
NGO ROLES IN BANGLADESH 299
Khushi Kabir
12. A THAI COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE IN BIODIVERSITY
CONSERVATION: DEFINITIONS FROM THE INSIDE 309
Penny Levin
13. LOCALLY BASED, ECOLOGICALLY SOUND, AND SOCIALLY
INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT: THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF
COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE TO THE
GLOBAL DIALOGUE 325
Arthur Getz
14. SUSTENANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY: SOME VALUES AND
PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING SOCIALLY-JUST, SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT 345
Kersten L. Johnson
15. THE WORKSHOP AS A BRIDGE 369
Puanani Burgess