Participation--From Tyranny to Transformation? : Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development

Participation--From Tyranny to Transformation? : Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development

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Book Description
Participatory techniques have established themselves in both project implementation in developing countries and community interventions in industrial countries. Recently, participation has been fashionably dismissed as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by agents 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. They show how participation can help produce genuine transformation for marginalized communities. This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to evaluate the state of participatory approaches in the aftermath of the "Tyranny" critique. It captures the recent convergence between participatory development and participatory governance. It revisits the question of popular agency, as well as spanning the range of institutional actors involved--the state, civil society and donor agencies. The volume embeds participation within contemporary advances in development theory.

Participation--From Tyranny to Transformation? : Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development,Samuel Hickey,Giles Mohan,Zed Books,1842774611,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Citizen participation,Community development,Developing countries,Development - Economic Development,Economic Conditions,Economic development,Economics - General,Local government,Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.,Business & Economics / Economics / General,Development studies

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