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

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TextPublication details: London ; New York : ZED Books ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (x, 292 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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9781848131606
1848131607
1281216100
9781281216106
9781842774601
1842774603
9781842774618
1842774611
9781848137486
1848137486

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Participation, from tyranny to transformation?.DDC classification:

307.1/4 22

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HN49.C6 P367 2004eb

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Contents:

Acknowledgements; Part one -- From tyranny to transformation?; 1 -- Towards participation as transformation: critical themes and challenges; 2 -- Towards participatory governance: assessing the transformative possibilities; 3 -- Rules of thumb for participatory change agents; Part two -- Rethinking participation; 4 -- Relocating participation within a radical politics of development: critical modernism and citizenship; 5 -- Spaces for transformation? reflections on issues of power and difference in participation in development.

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.

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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.

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