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Volume 7, Numéro 3

• Editorial
  • Editorial 7(3)
    Eade, Deborah
• Articles
  • Comment encadrer la participation: projets de développement, professionnels et organisations
    Craig, David; Porter, Doug
  • Le développement durable du "côté tranchant": les organismes qui ont des travailleurs de terrain dans le cadre d'un projet participatif
    Jackson, Cecile
  • Le développement participatif: une approche sensible à la classe et au genre
    Connell, Dan
  • La participation à l'exploitation forestière sociale réexaminée: une étude de cas du Bangladesh
    Khan, Niaz Ahmed; Begum, Showkat Ara
  • La croissance agricole et la théorie du “trickle-down”(*) reconsidérées: données de l’Inde rurale
    Sharma, Shalendra D.
• Point de Vue
  • Fleeting talk: one question in India
    de Caires, Frank
  • Development jargon as order words
    Roth, Jimmy; Franks, Jeremy
  • Partnership: a new name in development Cupertino
    Martella, Paolo; Schunk, Javier
  • The nature and design of development organisations
    Jonathan, Samwel
  • Réflexions critiques sur l’évaluation rurale rapide et participative
    Leurs, Robert
• Notes Pratiques
  • Basic learning needs of young people and adults in Latin America
    Schmelkes, Sylvia
  • Participatory project evaluation: letting local people have their say
    Reckers, Ute
  • How to pre-evaluate credit projects in ten minutes
    Moll, Henk A. J.
• Rapport de Conférence
  • Beyond the World Food Summit
    Mulvany, Patrick
• Synthèses de Recherche
  • Business linkages in Zimbabwe: helping to shape `win-win' economic structures
    Grierson, John P.; Mead, Donald C.; Moyo, Sam
• Critiques de Livres

Development jargon as order words

Roth, Jimmy; Franks, Jeremy

The authors examine the use of development jargon as commands, or `order words'. `Participation' and `appropriate technology' are discussed as examples of development jargon which, through unquestioning usage, becomes `so entrenched that no NGO could dare contest' them. The result of continuing to use these words without allowing their meanings and implications to be contested will be the deterioration of these terms until they are no longer of analytical use.

Mots clés: Méthodologie; Droits humains; Societé civile

   

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