Relocating participation within a radical politics of development

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dc.contributor.authorHickey, S.en
dc.contributor.authorMohan, G.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:10:23Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:10:23Zen
dc.date.issued2005en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractIn response to (and in sympathy with) many of the critical points that have been lodged against participatory approaches to development and governance within international development, this article seeks to relocate participation within a radical politics of development. We argue that participation needs to be theoretically and strategically informed by a radical notion of 'citizenship', and be located within the critical modernist approach to development. Using empirical evidence drawn from a range of contemporary approaches to participation, the article shows that participatory approaches are most likely to succeed: (i) where they are pursued as part of a wider radical political project; (ii) where they are aimed specifically at securing citizenship rights and participation for marginal and subordinate groups; and (iii) when they seek to engage with development as an underlying process of social change rather than in the form of discrete technocratic interventions although we do not use these findings to argue against using participatory methods where these conditions are not met. Finally, we consider the implications of this relocation for participation in both theoretical and strategic terms.en
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dc.identifier1661en
dc.identifier.citationDevelopment and Change 36(2): 237-262en
dc.identifier.issn0012-155Xen
dc.identifier.issn1467-7660en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66259en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherOxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Institute of Social Studies, the Hagueen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2005 by Institute of Social Studiesen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectRural developmenten
dc.subjectEconomic growthen
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten
dc.subjectEconomic policyen
dc.subjectLivelihoodsen
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectCommunity participationen
dc.subjectCommunity developmenten
dc.subjectLocal governanceen
dc.subjectParticipationen
dc.subjectDevelopmenten
dc.subjectCritical modernist approachen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleRelocating participation within a radical politics of developmenten
dc.typeAbstracten
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