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Spaces for change? : the politics of citizen participation in new democratic arenas / edited by Andrea Cornwall & Vera Schatten P. Coelho.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Claiming citizenship ; v. 4.
- Claiming citizenship ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political participation--Case studies.
- Political participation.
- Social participation--Case studies.
- Social participation.
- Democracy--Case studies.
- Democracy.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 270 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Zed Books : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, [2007]
- Summary:
- This book addresses one of the greatest challenges of our age: that of building democratic polities where all can realize their rights and claim substantive citizenship. In recent years, innovations in governance have created a plethora of new democratic spaces in many countries. Yet there remains a gap between the intention to institutionalize participation and the reality of exclusion of poorer and marginalized citizens. Through case studies of a diversity of institutions - hospital facility boards in South Africa, a national-level deliberative process in Canada, sectoral management councils and community groups in Brazil, India, Mexico and Bangladesh, participatory budgeting in Argentina, NGO-created forums in Angola and Bangladesh, community forums in the UK, and new intermediary spaces created by social movements in South Africa - contributors examine how the democratic potential of these new spaces might be enhanced.
- Contents:
- Foreword / John Gaventa
- Spaces for change? The politics of participation in new democratic arenas / Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan P. Coelho
- The inclusion and representation in the participatory sphere
- Brazilian health councils: including the excluded? / Vera Schattan P. Coelho
- Spaces for participation in health systems in rural Bangladesh: the experience of stakeholder community groups / Simeen Mahmud
- Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces: the politics of domesticating participation in rural India / Ranjita Mohanty
- Social change and community participation: the case of health facilities boards in the Western Cape of South Africa / John J. Williams
- Civil organizations and political representation in Brazil's participatory institutions / Graziela Castello, Adrián Gurza Lavalle and Peter P. Houtzager
- Inclusion and representation in democratic deliberations: lessons from Canada's Romanow Commission / Bettina von Lieres and David Kahane
- The politics of institutionalised participation
- Democratizing the governance of health services : the case of Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Brazil / Andrea Cornwall
- Subverting the spaces of invitation? Local politics and participatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires / Dennis Rodgers
- Participation, mutation and political transition: new democratic spaces in peri-urban Angola / Sandra Roque and Alex Shankland
- Citizen participation in South Africa: land struggles and HIV/AIDS activism / Bettina von Lieres
- Whose spaces? Contestations and negotiations in health and community regeneration forums in UK / Marian Barne
- About the contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781842775530
- 1842775537
- 9781842775523
- 1842775529
- OCLC:
- 70882235
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