The Multiple Optic of Interface
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1999-10
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Long, Norman
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This paper explores the implications of an actor-oriented interface analysis for understanding cultural diversity, social difference and conflict inherent in processes of development intervention. The paper discusses the implications of interface analysis for exploring policy and issues of participation and empowerment. Its major advantage is that it transcends simple structural and institutional explanations and solutions by focusing on how the different actors’ responses and knowledge frames are constructed and reconstructed on the basis of their ongoing interface encounters, struggles and segregations.