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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450679603321

Autore

Dudley Eric

Titolo

The critical villager : beyond community participation / / Eric Dudley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-90660-9

0-203-31170-1

1-280-33117-8

1-134-90661-7

9786610331178

0-203-03312-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Disciplina

307.1/09172/4

Soggetti

Community development - Developing countries

Rural development projects - Developing countries

Appropriate technology - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Figures; Preface; INTRODUCTION; Community participation: us and them; The interveners; The intended beneficiaries; Principles; Reasonable; THE BIG IDEA; RECOGNIZED AUTHORITIES; MAXIMUM SERENDIPITY; Recognizable; TANGIBLE ENTITIES; CLEAR VISUAL MESSAGES; Respectable; MODERN IMAGERY; INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE; MULTIPLE AGENDAS; CONCLUSIONS; Action and reflection; The three R's; The global village; References

Sommario/riassunto

When aid to the Third World actually works it is usually on such a small scale that it makes little impact on the world's problems. Can demands for generalizable actions be reconciled with location-specific solutions? The Critical Villager considers how community-based technical aid can be made more effective and sustainable. Calling for development workers, policy makers and researchers to put themselves in the place of the intended beneficiaries of aid, it suggests concrete principles for action and research. It argues that participatory research and 'transfer



of technology' should

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910585958603321

Autore

O'Dochartaigh Eavan

Titolo

Visual culture and Arctic voyages : personal and public art and literature of the Franklin search expeditions / / Eavan O'Dochartaigh [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge University Press, 2022

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2022

ISBN

1-108-99867-4

1-108-99887-9

1-108-99279-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 136

Classificazione

LIT004120

Disciplina

919.8

Soggetti

Search and rescue operations - Arctic Ocean - History - 19th century

Arctic regions Discovery and exploration British

Northwest Passage Discovery and exploration British

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2022).

Open Access.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : witnessing the Arctic -- "On the spot :" scientific and personal visual records (1848-1854) -- "Breathing time :" on-board production of illustrated periodicals (1850-1854) -- "These dread shores :" visualizing the Arctic for readers (1850-1860) -- "Never to be Forgotten :" presenting the Arctic panorama (1850) -- "Power and truth :" the authority of lithography (1850-1855) -- Conclusion : resonances.

Sommario/riassunto

In the mid-nineteenth century, thirty-six expeditions set out for the Northwest Passage in search of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The array of visual and textual material produced on these voyages was to have a profound impact on the idea of the Arctic in the Victorian imaginary. Eavan O'Dochartaigh closely examines neglected archival sources to show how pictures created in the Arctic fed into a metropolitan view transmitted through engravings, lithographs, and



panoramas. Although the metropolitan Arctic revolved around a fulcrum of heroism, terror and the sublime, the visual culture of the ship reveals a more complicated narrative that included cross-dressing, theatricals, dressmaking, and dances with local communities. O'Dochartaigh's investigation into the nature of the on-board visual culture of the nineteenth-century Arctic presents a compelling challenge to the 'man-versus-nature' trope that still reverberates in polar imaginaries today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.