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Title Participation [Electronic book] : from tyranny to transformation? : exploring new approaches to participation in development / Samuel Hickey and Giles Mohan, editors.
Imprint London ; New York : Zed books, 2004.
Copyright Date ©2004
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Descript Electronic book.
1 online resource (x, 292 pages)
Content type text
Media type computer
Carrier type online resource
Note Available through VLeBooks.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Dawson Books. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Towards participation as transformation : critical themes and challenges / Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan -- 2. Towards participatory governance : assessing transformative possibilities / John Gaventa -- 3. Rules of thumb for participatory change agents / Bill Cooke -- 4. Relocating participation within a radical politics of development : critical modernism and citizenship / Giles Mohan and Sam Hickey -- 5. Spaces for transformation? : reflections on issues of power and difference in participation in development / Andrea Cornwall -- 6. Towards a repoliticization of participatory development : political capabilities and spaces of empowerment / Glyn Williams -- 7. Participation, resistance and problems with the ’local’ in Peru : towards a new political contract? / Susan Vincent -- 8. ’transformative’ unfolding of ’tyrannical’ participation : the corvee tradition and ongoing local politics in Western Nepal / Katsuhiko Masaki -- 9. Morality, citizenship and participatory development in an indigenous development association : the case of GPSDO and the Sebat Bet Gurage of Ethiopia / Leroi Henry -- 10. Relocating participation within a radical politics of development : insights from political action and practice / Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan -- 11. Securing voice and transforming practice in local government : the role of federating in grassroots development / Diana Mitlin -- 12. Participatory municipal development plans in Brazil : divergent partners constructing common futures / Glauco Regis Florisbelo and Irene Guijt -- 13. Confrontations with power : moving beyond ’the tyranny of safety’ in participation / Ute Kelly -- 14. Failing forward : going beyond PRA and imposed forms of participation / Mark Waddington and Giles Mohan -- 15. Participation in poverty reduction strategies : democracy strengthened or democracy underminded? / David Brown -- 16. Beyond the technical fix? : participation in donor approaches to rights-based development / Jeremy Holland, Mary Ann Brocklesby and Charles Abugre -- 17. social embeddedness of agency and decision-making / Frances Cleaver -- 18. Theorizing participation and institutional change : ethnography and political economy / Anthony Bebbington.
Subject Despotism -- Congresses.
Political planning -- Citizen participation -- Congresses.
Economic development -- Citizen participation -- Congresses.
Political participation -- Congresses.
Local government -- Citizen participation -- Congresses.
Add Author Mohan, Giles, 1966- editor.
Hickey, Samuel, 1972- editor.
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