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Spaces for change?: the politics of citizen participation in new democratic arenas

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Claiming citizenship: right, participation, accountability; 4Publication details: London Zed Books 2007Description: xviii, 270 p.: ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9781842775530
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.042 S71
Summary: This book addresses one of the greatest challenges of our age: that of building democratic polities where all can realize their rights and claim substantive citizenship. In recent years, innovations in governance have created a plethora of new democratic spaces in many countries. Yet there remains a gap between the intention to institutionalize participation and the reality of exclusion of poorer and marginalized citizens. Through case studies of a diversity of institutions - hospital facility boards in South Africa, a national-level deliberative process in Canada, sectoral management councils and community groups in Brazil, India, Mexico and Bangladesh, participatory budgeting in Argentina, NGO-created forums in Angola and Bangladesh, community forums in the UK, and new intermediary spaces created by social movements in South Africa - contributors examine how the democratic potential of these new spaces might be enhanced. https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/spaces-for-change/
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Table of contents

Foreword / John Gaventa
Acronyms
Spaces for change? The politics of participation in new democratic arenas / Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan P. Coelho
The challenge of inclusion
Brazilian health councils: including the excluded? / Vera Schattan P. Coelho
Spaces for participation in health systems in rural Bangladesh: the experience of stakeholder community groups / Simeen Mahmud
Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces: the politics of domesticating participation in rural India / Ranjita Mohanty
Social change and community participation: the case of health facilities boards in the Western Cape of South Africa / John J. Williams
Civil organizations and political representation in Brazil's participatory institutions / Graziela Castello, Adrin Gurza Lavalle and Peter P. Houtzager
Inclusion and representation in democratic deliberations: lessons from Canada's Romanow Commission / Bettina von Lieres and David Kahane
The politics of institutionalised participation
Negotiating participation in a Brazilian municipal health council / Andrea Cornwall
Subverting the spaces of invitation? Local politics and participatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires / Dennis Rodgers
Participation, mutation and political transition: new democratic spaces in peri-urban Angola / Sandra Roque and Alex Shankland
Citizen participation in South Africa: land struggles and HIV/AIDS activism / Bettina von Lieres
Whose spaces? Contestations and negotiations in health and community regeneration forums in England / Marian Barne
About the contributors
Index

This book addresses one of the greatest challenges of our age: that of building democratic polities where all can realize their rights and claim substantive citizenship. In recent years, innovations in governance have created a plethora of new democratic spaces in many countries. Yet there remains a gap between the intention to institutionalize participation and the reality of exclusion of poorer and marginalized citizens.
Through case studies of a diversity of institutions - hospital facility boards in South Africa, a national-level deliberative process in Canada, sectoral management councils and community groups in Brazil, India, Mexico and Bangladesh, participatory budgeting in Argentina, NGO-created forums in Angola and Bangladesh, community forums in the UK, and new intermediary spaces created by social movements in South Africa - contributors examine how the democratic potential of these new spaces might be enhanced.

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