Participation, from tyranny to transformation? : exploring new approaches to participation in development / Samuel Hickey and Giles Mohan, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hickey, Samuel, 1972- editor.

Mohan, Giles, 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development.

Community development--Developing countries.

Economic development--Citizen participation.

Economic development.

Local government--Citizen participation.

Local government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Zed Books, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Participation is a popular approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in both developing and developed countries. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by those intent on pursuing their own agendas under cover of community consent. This books seeks to rebut this simplistic conclusion. It describes and analyses new experiments in participation from a wide range of situations that show how, far from being a redundant and depoliticizing concept, participation can be linked to genuine

Contents:

Contents ; Acknowledgements; Part one | From tyranny to transformation?; 1 | Towards participation as transformation: critical themes and challenges; Setting the scene; A brief history of participation in development; Participation and development theory; Reframing participation: towards citizenship; Transformation; The temporal aspects of participation; Space; Representation; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2 | Towards participatory governance: assessing the transformative possibilities; Relating people and institutions; Working both sides of the equation

Reconceptualizing participation and citizenshipNew forms of citizen-state engagement; The need for more evidence; Assessing power relations in participatory spaces; Spaces for participation; The visibility of power relationships; Conclusion; Note; References; 3 | Rules of thumb for participatory change agents; Rule I: Don't work for the World Bank; Rule II: Remember: co-optation, co-optation, co-optation; Rule III: Data belong to those from whom they were taken; Rule IV: Work only in languages you understand as well as your first; Rule V: Always work for local rates, or for free

Rule VI: Have it done to yourselfRule VII: Historicize theory and practice; Conclusion; References; Part two | Rethinking participation; 4 | Relocating participation within a radical politics of development: critical modernism and citizenship; Of theory and analysis: relocating and politicizing participatory thinking; Relocating participation in a radical theoretical home; Critical modernism and the left: between political economy and populism; Reconceptualizing participation as citizenship; Realizing a project of radical citizenship and critical modernism; Conclusion; Notes; References

5 | Spaces for transformation? reflections on issues of power and difference in participation in developmentSpaces for change?; Of spaces and places; Making spaces; Situating participation; Contestation and resistance; Spatial practices, agency and voice; Making a difference: towards more transformative participation; Notes; References; 6 | Towards a repoliticization of participatory development: political capabilities and spaces of empowerment; Mainstreaming participation, depoliticizing development; Re-evaluating participation: institutional analysis and political capabilities

Learning from participation: 'success' and 'failure' in South AsiaTowards the repoliticization of participation; Conclusions; Notes; References; Part three | Participation as popular agency: reconnecting with underlying processes of development ; 7 | Participation, resistance and problems with the 'local' in Peru: towards a new political contract?; Development and participatory practice; A history of participatory development and translocal livelihood in Matachico, Peru; Ways forward: towards a new political contract?; Notes; References

8 | The 'transformative' unfolding of 'tyrannical' participation: the corvée tradition and ongoing local politics in Western Nepal

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786611216108

9781848137486

1848137486

9781848131606

1848131607

9781281216106

1281216100

OCLC:

476137045