Participation, from tyranny to transformation? : exploring new approaches to participation in development

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Participation, from tyranny to transformation? : exploring new approaches to participation in development

Samuel Hickey and Giles Mohan, editors

Zed Books, 2004

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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. 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, and spans the range of institutional actors involved in these approaches - the state, civil society and donor agencies. It places participatory interventions in a political context, and links them directly to issues of popular agency. The volume embeds participation within contemporary advances in development theory and proposes theoretical and practical ways forward for relocating participation as a genuinely transformative approach. Scholars and practitioners alike, and from a diversity of disciplines and community and development agencies, are likely to find this volume a theoretically illuminating and practically useful source of ideas about how participation can achieve concrete liberatory outcomes.

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Part I: From Tyranny to Transformation? 1. Towards participation as transformation: critical themes and challenges for a post-tyranny agenda Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan 2. Towards Participatory Local Governance: Assessing the Transformative Possibilities John Gaventa 3. Rules of Thumb for Participatory Change Agents Bill Cooke Part II: Rethinking participation 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 Repoliticisation of Participatory Development: Political Capabilities and Spaces of Empowerment Glyn Williams Part III: 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? Susan Vincent 8. The 'Transformative' Unfolding of 'Tyrannical' Participation: The Corv'e 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 Part IV: Realising transformative participation in practice: state and civil responses 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 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 Giles Mohan and Mark Waddington Part V: Donors and participation: caught between tyranny and transformation? 15 Participation in Poverty Reduction Strategies: Democracy Strengthened or Democracy Undermined? David Brown 16. Beyond the technical fix? Participation in donor approaches to rights-based development Jeremy Holland, Mary Ann Brocklesby and Charles Abugre Part VI: Broader perspectives on from tyranny to transformation 17. The social embeddedness of agency and decision-making Frances Cleaver 18. Theorizing participation and institutional change: ethnography and political economy Anthony Bebbington

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