Participation: From Tyranny to Transformation: Exploring New Approaches to Participation in DevelopmentZed Books, 2004 - 292 pages Participation has established itself as a significant approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in developing and developed countries alike. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by agencies and social change agents intent simply on pursuing their own agendas under cover of community consent. In this important new volume, development and other social policy scholars and practitioners seek to rebut this simplistic conclusion, while addressing the problems of power and politics which have beset some approaches to participation. They describe and analyse new experiments in participation from a wide diversity of social contexts that show how, far from being a redundant and depoliticizing concept, participation can -- given certain conditions -- be linked to genuinely transformative processes and outcomes for marginalized communities and people. |
Contents
Setting the scene 3 A brief history of participation in develop | 13 |
The temporal aspects of participation 15 Space 16 Represen | 20 |
Rules of thumb for participatory change agents | 42 |
Relocating participation within a radical politics of develop | 59 |
Spaces for transformation? reflections on issues of power | 75 |
Participation resistance and problems with the local | 111 |
Nepal | 125 |
Ongoing local politics in Majuwa 127 Local patterns | 134 |
Relocating participation within a radical politics | 159 |
Securing voice and transforming practice in local govern | 175 |
moving beyond the tyranny | 205 |
going beyond PRA and imposed forms | 219 |
democracy | 237 |
Beyond the technical fix? participation in donor approaches | 252 |
The social embeddedness of agency and decisionmaking | 271 |
Contributors | 284 |
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Participation--From Tyranny to Transformation?: Exploring New Approaches to ... Samuel Hickey,Giles Mohan No preview available - 2005 |
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Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People ... Sara Louise Kindon,Rachel Pain,Mike Kesby No preview available - 2007 |