Mw. Wang Yihuan : How decontinuities become continuities

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30 Sep 2003 13:30
Unit: Wageningen University
Location: Aula (gebouw 362), Gen. Foulkesweg 1, Wageningen
Promotor: prof.dr. N.E. Long (Rural Development Sociology)

 This research concerns practical and theoretical issues relating to the dynamics of participatory development in rural China, that is, how differential responses/strategies of actors are socially developed and realised in a participatory intervention. The actors here refer to members of the project implementing agency, township government officials, village committee leaders and local farmers involved in a specific project. The responses are thus the outcome of interactions between a range of actors. The research adopts an actor-oriented approach. The empirical data pinpoint the enduring elements that constitute the ongoing trajectories of people’s lives. The research explores some of the complexities involved and identifies the critical points at which change is negotiated and agreed upon by the different parties. This empirical study makes a contribution to the understanding of the non-linear nature of processes of development, particularly in the Chinese context, where participatory intervention is endowed with special social meanings and is processed and utilised in many different ways by those who engage with it.
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