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TITLE: Participation - From Tyranny to Transformation? Exploring New
Approaches to Participation in Development
EDITORS: Samuel Hickey, University of Manchester, and Giles Mohan,
Open University
ISBN/PRICE:
1 84277 460 3 hbk GBP55.00/US$75.00
1 84277 461 1 pbk GBP18.95/US$25.00
FEATURES: Tables Boxes Diagrams Notes Bibliography Index 304pp
Metric Demy format
LIBRARY CATEGORIES: Development
PUBLICATION DATE: October 2004
TERRITORIAL RESTRICTIONS: None. The Zed edition of this title is
available for sale all over the world.
KEY POINTS
+ A stimulating re-evaluation of participatory approaches to
development
+ Essential follow-up to Zed's earlier title, 'Participation: The New
Tyranny?'
(Cooke & Kothari, 2001)
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK
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 genuinely
transformative processes and outcomes - provided that a political and
not a technocratic approach is taken. It examines the recent
convergence between participatory development and participatory
governance, and the role of all the main actors - the state, civil
society and donor agencies. It takes contemporary advances in
development theory into account and proposes theoretical and
practical ways forward.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Samuel Hickey is at the Institute for Development Policy and
Management, Manchester University. Giles Mohan, at the Open
University, is the co-author of Structural Adjustment (Routledge,
2000) and Power, Space and Development (Sage, 2003). The contributors
are scholars and practitioners in development and social policy.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
PART I: FROM TYRANNY TO TRANSFORMATION?
1. Towards participation as transformation: critical themes and
challenges - 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 2: 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 for empowerment - Glyn Williams
PART 3: 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
Corvée 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 4: 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 6: 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
Contributors
Index
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