Mediated Citizenship [electronic resource] : The Informal Politics of Speaking for Citizens in the Global South /
Lieres, Bettina von.editor.
Piper, Laurence.editor.
Drawing on case studies from the global South, this book explores the politics of mediated citizenship in which citizens are represented to the state through third party intermediaries. The studies show that mediation is both widely practiced and multi-directional and that it has an important role to play in deepening democracy in the global South.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Maps; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Acronyms; Introduction: The Crucial Role of Mediators in Relations between States and Citizens; Section I: Mediating the City; 1 Mediation and the Contradictions of Representing the Urban Poor in South Africa: The Case of SANCO Leaders in Imizamo Yethu in Cape Town, South Africa; 2 Citizen Power or State Weakness? The Enduring History of Collective Action in a Hyderabadi Bazaar
3 The Politics of Mediation in Fragile Democracies: Building New Social Contracts through, and for, Democratic Citizenship in Angola4 'Parallel Power' in Rio de Janeiro: Coercive Mediators and the Fragmentation of Citizenship in the Favela; Section II: Mediating the National; 5 Challenging the Gatekeepers: Disability Rights Advocacy and the Struggle for Self-Representation within Lebanon's Post-war Sectarian Democracy; 6 Mediation in India's Policy Spaces; 7 Mediating Active Citizenship and Social Mobility in Working-Class Schools: The Case of Equal Education in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
8 Mobilising for Democracy: Civil Society Mediation and Access to Policy in India9 Mediation at the Grassroots: Claiming Rights by Empowering Citizens in Bangladesh; Section III: Mediating the Post-National; 10 Mediation as Diplomacy: Dynamics of Governance and Representation in Brazilian Indigenous Societies; 11 Achieving First Nation Self-Government in Yukon, Canada: The Mediating Role of the Council for Yukon Indians (CYI), 1975-1995; 12 Transnationalisation as Mediation: Uyghur's Rights-Based Mobilisation Outside China; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing on case studies from the global South, this book explores the politics of mediated citizenship in which citizens are represented to the state through third party intermediaries. The studies show that mediation is both widely practiced and multi-directional and that it has an important role to play in deepening democracy in the global South.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Political science.
Democracy.
Economic development.
Political sociology.
Social Theory.
Political Science.
Democracy.
Development Studies.
Political Sociology.
Human Rights.