Spaces for change?
Subtitle: the politics of citizen participation in new democratic arenas
By: edited by Andrea Cornwall & Vera Schatten P. Coelho
Contributors: Cornwall, Andrea, 1963-; Coelho, Vera Schattan P
Series: Claiming citizenship -- 4; Claiming citizenship -- v. 4
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781842775530; 9781842775523
Subjects: Political participation -- Case studies; Social participation -- Case studies; Democracy -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: The challenge of building democratic polities where all can realize their rights and claim substantive citizenship is one of the greatest of our age. Through case studies of a diversity of institutions, this work examines what the expansion of the participatory sphere has to offer processes of democratization and equitable development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Foreword / John Gaventa; title: Spaces for change? The politics of participation in new democratic arenas / Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan P. Coelho; title: The inclusion and representation in the participatory sphere; title: Brazilian health councils: including the excluded? / Vera Schattan P. Coelho; title: Spaces for participation in health systems in rural Bangladesh: the experience of stakeholder community groups / Simeen Mahmud; title: Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces: the politics of domesticating participation in rural India / Ranjita Mohanty; title: Social change and community participation: the case of health facilities boards in the Western Cape of South Africa / John J. Williams; title: Civil organizations and political representation in Brazil's participatory institutions / Graziela Castello, Adrián Gurza Lavalle and Peter P. Houtzager; title: Inclusion and representation in democratic deliberations: lessons from Canada's Romanow Commission / Bettina von Lieres and David Kahane; title: The politics of institutionalised participation; title: Democratizing the governance of health services : the case of Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Brazil / Andrea Cornwall; title: Subverting the spaces of invitation? Local politics and participatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires / Dennis Rodgers; title: Participation, mutation and political transition: new democratic spaces in peri-urban Angola / Sandra Roque and Alex Shankland; title: Citizen participation in South Africa: land struggles and HIV/AIDS activism / Bettina von Lieres; title: Whose spaces? Contestations and negotiations in health and community regeneration forums in UK / Marian Barne; title: About the contributors; title: Index