Process, perception and power: Notes from 'participatory' research in a Zimbabwean resettlement area

Development and Change

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 277-305

  Goebel, Allison ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PARTICIPATORY RURAL APPRAISAL; POWER RELATIONS; RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMME;

ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0031819149     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00079     Document Type: Article

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