The Participation Paradox Between Bottom Up And Top Down Development In South Africa
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Author | : Luke Sinwell |
Publisher | : UJ Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2023-04-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 177643417X |
Debunking the conventional belief that grassroots democracy is always a panacea for the poor and disenfranchised. The last two decades have ushered in what has become known as a participatory revolution, with consultants, advisors, and non-profits called into communities, classrooms, and corporations alike to listen to ordinary people. With exclusively bureaucratic approaches no longer en vogue, authorities now opt for “open” forums for engagement. In The Participation Paradox Luke Sinwell argues that amplifying the voices of the poor and dispossessed is often a quick fix incapable of delivering concrete and lasting change. The ideology of public consultation and grassroots democracy can be a smokescreen for a cost-effective means by which to implement top-down decisions. As participation has become mainstreamed by governments around the world, so have its radical roots become tamed by neoliberal forces that reinforce existing relationships of power. Drawing from oral testimonies and ethnographic research, Sinwell presents a case study of one of the poorest and most defiant Black informal settlements in Johannesburg, South Africa - Thembelihle, which consists of more than twenty thousand residents - highlighting the promises and pitfalls of participatory approaches to development. Providing a critical lens for understanding grassroots democracy, The Participation Paradox foregrounds alternatives capable of reclaiming participation’s emancipatory potential.
Author | : Luke Sinwell |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2023-02-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0228015731 |
The last two decades have ushered in what has become known as a participatory revolution, with consultants, advisors, and non-profits called into communities, classrooms, and corporations alike to listen to ordinary people. With exclusively bureaucratic approaches no longer en vogue, authorities now opt for “open” forums for engagement. In The Participation Paradox Luke Sinwell argues that amplifying the voices of the poor and dispossessed is often a quick fix incapable of delivering concrete and lasting change. The ideology of public consultation and grassroots democracy can be a smokescreen for a cost-effective means by which to implement top-down decisions. As participation has become mainstreamed by governments around the world, so have its radical roots become tamed by neoliberal forces that reinforce existing relationships of power. Drawing from oral testimonies and ethnographic research, Sinwell presents a case study of one of the poorest and most defiant Black informal settlements in Johannesburg, South Africa – Thembelihle, which consists of more than twenty thousand residents – highlighting the promises and pitfalls of participatory approaches to development. Providing a critical lens for understanding grassroots democracy, The Participation Paradox foregrounds alternatives capable of reclaiming participation’s emancipatory potential.
Author | : Edith H. Katzenellenbogen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Exercise for children |
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Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
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Author | : Samuel Hickey |
Publisher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781842774618 |
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.
Author | : Ghazala Mansuri |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 082138256X |
This book examines the conceptual foundations of the participatory approach to local development, assesses the evidence of its efficacy, and draws key lessons for policy.
Author | : Leo P. Chall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Online databases |
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CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
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Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780821335581 |
Presents case studies resulting from participation in the World Bank by developing countries such as Chad, Brazil, and Nigeria
Author | : Margaret Elisabeth Perrow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2000 |
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Author | : Maija Setälä |
Publisher | : ECPR Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1907301321 |
The first comprehensive account of the booming phenomenon of deliberative mini-publics, this book offers a systematic review of their variety, discusses their weaknesses, and recommends ways to make them a viable component of democracy. The book takes stock of the diverse practices of deliberative mini-publics and, more concretely, looks at preconditions, processes, and outcomes. It provides a critical assessment of the experience with mini-publics; in particular their lack of policy impact. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, notably James S Fishkin and Mark E Warren, Deliberative Mini-Publics will speak to anyone with an interest in democracy and democratic innovations.