J Gaventa
Biographic Data
| ID | 109028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Gaventa |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaventa |
| SIGNATURE | GAVENTA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0360-3248 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 306 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Rural Appalachia in Global Context: Reimagining a Just and Sustainable Future
This paper is based on a keynote presentation given at the Appalachian Studies Association Conference on March 21, 2025, at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tennessee
Glossary: Struggles for Justice in the Energy Transition: Voices from the Front Lines
This is the glossary of IDS Bulletin 56.2: Struggles for Justice in the Energy Transition: Voices from the Front Lines
Notas sobre os autores dos artigos em português
Notas sobre os autores dos artigos em português
Struggles for Justice in the Energy Transition: Voices from the Front Lines
A critical issue of our time is how the world can transition from a development model based on the extraction and use of fossil fuels to one based on cleaner sources of energy, and how it does so in a just and inclusive way. Central to this issue of the IDS Bulletin is the recognition that to be just, any transition must include consideration of the voices, knowledges, and realities of communities most affected. By bringing together authors from …
Notas sobre los colaboradores en español
Notas sobre los colaboradores de los artículos en español
Citizen action for accountability in challenging contexts: What have we learned
Repertoires of citizen action in hybrid settings
Transformation of Farmer Resistance in Conservation Areas: Land Occupation by Farmers in Mount Halimun-Salak National Park, West Java
A number of studies have shown various agrarian conflicts as a response by local farmers against the policy of national parks that prohibits them from accessing conservation forest areas. However, previous studies had not explained the dynamics of power relations between park authorities and farmers who stand in opposition to these policies. This study employs a qualitative research approach complemented by secondary data to explain the transform…
Linking the prepositions: Using power analysis to inform strategies for social action
This article reviews longstanding debates about the relationship between power over and power to – often posed as the tension between domination and emancipation. It then turns to several frameworks which integrate these approaches to inform strategies for social action. In particular, it focuses on recent empirical studies which apply one such framework, the ‘powercube’, to glean insights into how social actors navigate across multiple forms, sp…
Power and powerlessness in an Appalachian Valley - revisited
With the rise of Trump support in rural Appalachia - the coal mining, mountainous region in the heartland of the eastern United States - media and other commentators have rushed to explain this conservative politics in 'exceptionalist' terms, largely based on cultural stereotypes. Revisiting my work on Power and Powerlessness in an Appalachian Valley (1980), I argue that the attention to 'Trumpism' fails to see or take into account the widespread…
Poverty, Participation and Social Exclusion in North and South
The rapid growth and acceptance of the concept of participation has been a key feature in development in the 1990s, and is central to the evolving discussion on social exclusion. While during the 1970s and 1980s, 'participation' was more the discourse of grassroots organisations or NGO, this decade has seen the concept being embraced at the institutional and governmental level. The World Bank Working Group on Participation is seen as an authorita…
Introduction: Interrogating Engaged Excellence in Research
Approaches to engaged research, which do not just produce academic knowledge, but link with people and groups in society, have long intellectual roots. In recent years, however, for epistemological, practical and ethical reasons, interest in such approaches has gained ground. At the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) we seek to adopt an ‘engaged excellence’ approach to research. We have identified four pillars that support engaged excellence:…
Inequality, Power and Participation – Revisiting the Links
Drawing on the contributions from the World Social Science Report 2016, Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World, this article examines the relationship between economic inequality and political participation. In particular, using the lens of the ‘power cube’ approach (www.powercube.net), we argue that understanding the impact of inequality on political participation requires moving beyond the study of its impact on more conventional fo…
Power and knowledge
Power and Knowledge
The Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives
This issue of Development Policy Review arises from a study of the impact and effectiveness of transparency and accountability initiatives (TAIs) in different development sectors. It analyses existing evidence, discusses how approaches to learning about TAIs might be improved, and recommends how impact and effectiveness could be enhanced
Civil Society and Power
Mapping the Outcomes of Citizen Engagement
Constructing transnational action research networks: Reflections on the Citizenship Development Research Centre
This article examines the construction of transnational action research networks that bridge local and global, practice and research, North and South, and many disciplines. Using an ‘insider—outsider’ approach the article examines the emergence of the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability as a network of partners from seven countries concerned with research, capacity building and policy influence. The articl…
Challenging the Boundaries of the Possible: Participation, Knowledge and Power
Finding the Spaces for Change: A Power Analysis
Participation in Governance
Exploring Citizenship, Participation and Accountability
From Users and Choosers to Makers and Shapers Repositioning Participation in Social Policy 1
Summaries This article explores approaches to participation in social policy, setting them within broader debates on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Drawing on studies of participation in a range of social policy arenas in the North and South, it explores the implications of a shift from a focus on clients or consumers of social policies as users and choosers to a more active engagement of citizens as agents in the making and shap…
Poverty, Participation and Social Exclusion in North and South
The rapid growth and acceptance of the concept of participation has been a key feature of international development in the 1990s. Policies to enhance and strengthen participation have long been used in the North as a strategy for addressing issues of poverty and social exclusion. This article reviews the experience of three such programmes in the United States over the last three decades. Then it identifies key lessons and themes from this histor…
Finding the Spaces for Change: A Power Analysis
Mapping the Outcomes of Citizen Engagement
Power and powerlessness in an Appalachian Valley - revisited
With the rise of Trump support in rural Appalachia - the coal mining, mountainous region in the heartland of the eastern United States - media and other commentators have rushed to explain this conservative politics in 'exceptionalist' terms, largely based on cultural stereotypes. Revisiting my work on Power and Powerlessness in an Appalachian Valley (1980), I argue that the attention to 'Trumpism' fails to see or take into account the widespread…
Exploring Citizenship, Participation and Accountability
From Users and Choosers to Makers and Shapers Repositioning Participation in Social Policy 1
Summaries This article explores approaches to participation in social policy, setting them within broader debates on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Drawing on studies of participation in a range of social policy arenas in the North and South, it explores the implications of a shift from a focus on clients or consumers of social policies as users and choosers to a more active engagement of citizens as agents in the making and shap…
Linking the prepositions: Using power analysis to inform strategies for social action
This article reviews longstanding debates about the relationship between power over and power to – often posed as the tension between domination and emancipation. It then turns to several frameworks which integrate these approaches to inform strategies for social action. In particular, it focuses on recent empirical studies which apply one such framework, the ‘powercube’, to glean insights into how social actors navigate across multiple forms, sp…
Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South
Part I: Case Studies of Crisis and Struggle 1. Has to Come from the People: Responding to Plant Closings in Ivanhoe, Virginia - Maxine Waller, Helen M. Lewis, Clare McBrien, and Carroll Wessings 2. People Power: Working for the Future in the East Kentucky Coalfields - Kristin Layng Szakos 3. Voices from the Coalfields: How Miners' Families Understand the Crisis of Coal - Mike Yarrow 4. Miners Can Dig It Too! - Betty Jean Hall 5. Organizing Women …
Challenging the Boundaries of the Possible: Participation, Knowledge and Power
Inequality, Power and Participation – Revisiting the Links
Drawing on the contributions from the World Social Science Report 2016, Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World, this article examines the relationship between economic inequality and political participation. In particular, using the lens of the ‘power cube’ approach (www.powercube.net), we argue that understanding the impact of inequality on political participation requires moving beyond the study of its impact on more conventional fo…
Constructing transnational action research networks: Reflections on the Citizenship Development Research Centre
This article examines the construction of transnational action research networks that bridge local and global, practice and research, North and South, and many disciplines. Using an ‘insider—outsider’ approach the article examines the emergence of the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability as a network of partners from seven countries concerned with research, capacity building and policy influence. The articl…
Poverty, Participation and Social Exclusion in North and South
The rapid growth and acceptance of the concept of participation has been a key feature of international development in the 1990s. Policies to enhance and strengthen participation have long been used in the North as a strategy for addressing issues of poverty and social exclusion. This article reviews the experience of three such programmes in the United States over the last three decades. Then it identifies key lessons and themes from this histor…
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
Introduction We make the road by walking 2. Formative Years I was always getting in trouble for reading in school Reading has to be a loving event I couldn't use all this book learning I always am in the beginning, as you Pockets of hope: Literacy and citizenship 3. Ideas Without practice there's no knowledge Is it possible just to teach biology? I've always been ambivalent about charismatic leaders The difference between and organizing My expert…
Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
The Country of Coal
David Frank John Benson, British Coalminers in the Nineteenth Century: A Social His tory (New York: Holmes and Meier 1980). Royden Harrison, ed., Independent Collier: The Coal Miner as Archetypal Proletarian Reconsidered (Sussex: Harvester 1978). Fred Reid, Keir Hardie: The Making of a Socialist (London: Croom Helm 1978). Angela John, By the Sweat of their Brow: Women Workers at Victorian Coal Mines (London: Croom Helm 1980). Keith Dix, Work Rela…
Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South
Part I: Case Studies of Crisis and Struggle 1. Has to Come from the People: Responding to Plant Closings in Ivanhoe, Virginia - Maxine Waller, Helen M. Lewis, Clare McBrien, and Carroll Wessings 2. People Power: Working for the Future in the East Kentucky Coalfields - Kristin Layng Szakos 3. Voices from the Coalfields: How Miners' Families Understand the Crisis of Coal - Mike Yarrow 4. Miners Can Dig It Too! - Betty Jean Hall 5. Organizing Women …
Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South
Part I: Case Studies of Crisis and Struggle 1. Has to Come from the People: Responding to Plant Closings in Ivanhoe, Virginia - Maxine Waller, Helen M. Lewis, Clare McBrien, and Carroll Wessings 2. People Power: Working for the Future in the East Kentucky Coalfields - Kristin Layng Szakos 3. Voices from the Coalfields: How Miners' Families Understand the Crisis of Coal - Mike Yarrow 4. Miners Can Dig It Too! - Betty Jean Hall 5. Organizing Women …
Foxfire Reconsidered: A Twenty-Year Experiment in Progressive Education
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
Introduction We make the road by walking 2. Formative Years I was always getting in trouble for reading in school Reading has to be a loving event I couldn't use all this book learning I always am in the beginning, as you Pockets of hope: Literacy and citizenship 3. Ideas Without practice there's no knowledge Is it possible just to teach biology? I've always been ambivalent about charismatic leaders The difference between and organizing My expert…
Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
Handbook of Clinical Sociology
Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South
Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change
Journal Article Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change. Ed. by Stephen L. Fisher. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. xii, 365 pp. Cloth, $49-95, ISBN 0-87722-9767. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-87722-977-5.) Get access John Gaventa John Gaventa University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, Septembe…
Poverty, Participation and Social Exclusion in North and South
The rapid growth and acceptance of the concept of participation has been a key feature of international development in the 1990s. Policies to enhance and strengthen participation have long been used in the North as a strategy for addressing issues of poverty and social exclusion. This article reviews the experience of three such programmes in the United States over the last three decades. Then it identifies key lessons and themes from this histor…
From Users and Choosers to Makers and Shapers Repositioning Participation in Social Policy 1
Summaries This article explores approaches to participation in social policy, setting them within broader debates on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Drawing on studies of participation in a range of social policy arenas in the North and South, it explores the implications of a shift from a focus on clients or consumers of social policies as users and choosers to a more active engagement of citizens as agents in the making and shap…
Exploring Citizenship, Participation and Accountability
Participation in Governance
Challenging the Boundaries of the Possible: Participation, Knowledge and Power
Finding the Spaces for Change: A Power Analysis
Constructing transnational action research networks: Reflections on the Citizenship Development Research Centre
This article examines the construction of transnational action research networks that bridge local and global, practice and research, North and South, and many disciplines. Using an ‘insider—outsider’ approach the article examines the emergence of the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability as a network of partners from seven countries concerned with research, capacity building and policy influence. The articl…
Civil Society and Power
Mapping the Outcomes of Citizen Engagement
The Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives
This issue of Development Policy Review arises from a study of the impact and effectiveness of transparency and accountability initiatives (TAIs) in different development sectors. It analyses existing evidence, discusses how approaches to learning about TAIs might be improved, and recommends how impact and effectiveness could be enhanced
Power and Knowledge
Power and knowledge
Introduction: Interrogating Engaged Excellence in Research
Approaches to engaged research, which do not just produce academic knowledge, but link with people and groups in society, have long intellectual roots. In recent years, however, for epistemological, practical and ethical reasons, interest in such approaches has gained ground. At the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) we seek to adopt an ‘engaged excellence’ approach to research. We have identified four pillars that support engaged excellence:…
Inequality, Power and Participation – Revisiting the Links
Drawing on the contributions from the World Social Science Report 2016, Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World, this article examines the relationship between economic inequality and political participation. In particular, using the lens of the ‘power cube’ approach (www.powercube.net), we argue that understanding the impact of inequality on political participation requires moving beyond the study of its impact on more conventional fo…
Poverty, Participation and Social Exclusion in North and South
The rapid growth and acceptance of the concept of participation has been a key feature in development in the 1990s, and is central to the evolving discussion on social exclusion. While during the 1970s and 1980s, 'participation' was more the discourse of grassroots organisations or NGO, this decade has seen the concept being embraced at the institutional and governmental level. The World Bank Working Group on Participation is seen as an authorita…
Power and powerlessness in an Appalachian Valley - revisited
With the rise of Trump support in rural Appalachia - the coal mining, mountainous region in the heartland of the eastern United States - media and other commentators have rushed to explain this conservative politics in 'exceptionalist' terms, largely based on cultural stereotypes. Revisiting my work on Power and Powerlessness in an Appalachian Valley (1980), I argue that the attention to 'Trumpism' fails to see or take into account the widespread…
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