The place of stories in development: creating spaces for participation through narrative analysis

Edward Carr

Development in Practice, 2010, vol. 20, issue 2, 219-226

Abstract: The stories that we hear as we conduct development research or implement development projects are often relegated to the margins of development studies. This article argues that these stories require our attention, for they are windows on to indigenous narratives of development and our placement in those narratives. Examining these stories as efforts to emplot experiences of development and encounters with development professionals within particular narratives enables us to better understand our own positionality in the communities in which we work, and therefore better understand the opportunities and challenges that our research/interventions present to the emergence of a truly participatory development.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/09614520903564165

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