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Participatory development and empowerment: the dangers of localism
Giles Mohan,Kristian Stokke +1 more
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In this paper, the authors examine the manifestations of this move in four key political arenas: decentralised service delivery, participatory development, social capital formation and local development, and collective actions for "radical democracy".Abstract:
Recent discussions in development have moved away from holistic theorisation towards more localised, empirical and inductive approaches. In development practice there has been a parallel move towards local ‘participation’ and ‘empowerment’, which has produced, albeit with very different agendas, a high level of agreement between actors and institutions of the ‘new’ Left and the ‘new’ Right. This paper examines the manifestations of this move in four key political arenas: decentralised service delivery, participatory development, social capital formation and local development, and collective actions for ‘radical democracy’. We argue that, by focusing so heavily on ‘the local’, the see manifestations tend to underplay both local inequalities and power relations as well as national and transnational economic and political forces. Following from this, we advocate a stronger emphasis on the politics of the local, ie on the political use of ‘the local’ by hegemonic and counter-hegemonic interests.read more
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Ideological Aspects of Democratisation in Thailand: Mainstreaming Localism 1
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Participatory development: An investigation of in-community stakeholders' perceptions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the in-community stakeholders' perceptions of the participatory process in development projects and investigate women participants of the Bukoba Women's Empowerment Association (BUWEA) in rural Tanzania.
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