Title
Renovating dependency and self-reliance for participatory sustainable development
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Agriculture and Human Values
Publication Date
2003
Date Added
2022-06-03
Abstract
Dependency stands for manygrievances and is generally considered asymptom of oppression. An opposing concept,offered as the preferred state, isself-reliance. Dependency and self-reliance arekey concepts in sustainable developmentprograms that feature participatory approaches.Some of the ways in which development projectsemploy the concepts of dependency andself-reliance, however, are troubling.Dependency and self-reliance in two programsfor participatory sustainable development areexamined, one in Canada and the other in NewZealand. Frameworks for dependency and self-reliance aredrawn from social psychology and philosophy toexamine problematic aspects associated with theconcepts. Analysis produced a proposal foruse of the term situatedinterdependence as a way to cast the outcomesof participatory sustainable development moreprecisely. The location of the cases (Canadaand New Zealand) centers the discussion withina context of industrialized agriculture, butalso points to issues pertinent to developingcountries.
Keywords
Environmental Justice
Disciplines
Agriculture
Recommended Citation
Grudens-Schuck, Nancy; Allen, Will; Hargrove, Tasha M.; and Kilvington, Mararet, "Renovating dependency and self-reliance for participatory sustainable development" (2003). Agriculture. 11.
https://research.paynecenter.org/tuskegee_agriculture/11
Publisher
Publisher: Springer