Duncan Green
Auteur de Faces of Latin America
A propos de l'auteur
Duncan Green is a policy analyst at CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency for England and Wales and director of research at the Just Pensions Project on socially responsible investment.
Œuvres de Duncan Green
From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World (2008) 47 exemplaires
The Urgency of Now: A Small Book About the Madness of Inequality and Poverty: How They're Wrecking People's Lives and… (2008) 6 exemplaires
Faces of Latin America by Duncan Green (1997-04-01) 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Green, Duncan
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
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How change happens par Duncan Green
Green works in international anti-poverty programs, and argues for a systems approach in which one iteratively works with groups at different levels of the system, leveraging elite points of entry while taking direction from people on the ground. I thought the concept of “positive deviance” was useful—find people in the group you’re trying to help who’ve overcome the problem you’re trying to solve, and see if you can help other people do the same thing, using the positive deviants as the model.… (plus d'informations)
Faces of Latin America traces the roots of the continent's most pressing issues - underdevelopment and poverty, the environmental crisis and the fight for democracy. It also celebrates the vibrant culture of Latin America's people whilst also looking at the region's turbulent politics.
Duncan Green talks to children across the continent, watching them at work and play, on the streets or in the home. He interviews children in Brazil, Jamaica, Peru, Colombia, Honduras and Nicaragua, as well as teachers, welfare workers and other adults involved in their lives. comprehensive background research supports his findings, while powerful photos from top international agencies such as Magnum illustrate the text.
About a delegation of artists and writers who visited Guatemala in 1992 for a week sharing a revelation of intense beauty and pain, the tedium of endless meetings, the surprise at the extent to which high governments officials wanted to influence their opinions. This is the result.
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