Evaluating participatory development
Tyranny, Power and (Re)politicisation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5807992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glyn Williams (0000-0003-0293-5574, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 557-578 |
| Publication date | 2004-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third World Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0143659042000191438 |
| OpenAlex | W1991239960 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 164 |
| References cited | 42 |
Ever since participation entered mainstream development discourse, critics have attacked it as form of political control. If development is indeed an 'anti-politics machine' ( Ferguson, 1994 Ferguson J (1994) The Anti-politics Machine: 'Development', Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press) [Google Scholar] ), the claim is that participation provides a remarkably efficient means of greasing its wheels. But do participatory practices and discourse necessarily represent the de-politicisation of development? This paper aims to provide an answer in two distinct ways. First, it examines the 'de-politicisation' critique, arguing that, while participation may indeed be a form of 'subjection', its consequences are not predetermined and its subjects are never completely controlled. Second, it investigates participatory development's ability to open up new spaces for political action, arguing that celebrations of 'individual liberation' and critiques of 'subjection to the system' both over-simplify participation's power effects. To re-politicise participation, empowerment must be re-imagined as an open-end and ongoing process of engagement with political struggles at a range of spatial scales
Bureaucracy · Mainstream · Participatory development · South African History and Culture · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
Promoting agency for social-ecological transformation
Reimagining Development
Afterword
Making neo-liberal governance
Challenges for Community‐based Adaptation
The Role of NGOs and Civil Society in Development and Poverty Reduction
Adapting the Capability Approach to Explain the Effects of Participatory Development Programs
Deliberative Participation in Local Development
When is Development More Democratic?
‘History obligates us to do it’
Community Voice and Participation in Climate Change Communication Through Community Radio in Malawi
People’s Participation in Disaster-Risk Reduction
Introduction - Multi-stakeholder forums and the promise of more equitable and sustainable land and resource use
The costs of elite-oriented multi-stakeholder forums to address deforestation
Participatory Action Research for the assessment of Community-Based Rural Tourism
Invisible boundaries to access and participation in public spaces
Race, rhetoric, and participatory capture in U.S. housing
Development and New Forms of Democracy in eThekwini
Intervening in Value Chains
Making Development Agents
Performing Participatory Citizenship – Politics and Power in Kerala's Kudumbashree Programme
Ethnicity Claims and Prior Consultation in the Peruvian Andes
Doing Cross-Cultural Research
Philosophical premises for African economic development
Public participation and climate change adaptation
Forum Theatre as a mechanism to explore representation of local people's values in environmental governance
Fertile grounds
Participation in a Hostile State
Planning digital inclusion together, barriers to include marginalised urban communities in the Global South
Partizipation als Ausnahmezustand
Schwierigkeiten mit der kritischen Geographie
Duty of care toward the Kinabatangan River
From colonial forestry to 'community-based fire management
Local Content Requirements in Nigeria's Extractive Sector and the Implications for Sustainable Development
The Geography of Participation
Community based system dynamic as an approach for understanding and acting on messy problems
Representations of the Third World in NGO advertising
Paying attention to scale for just and effective sustainability governance
Adaptation and validation of social accountability measures in the context of contraceptive services in Ghana and Tanzania
Social innovation in health
Participación, Pobreza y Políticas Públicas
La co-ingénierie de la participation
Between control and confrontation
How do mining companies induce community participation? Processes, rationales and contestation in South Africa’s platinum-rich Limpopo Province
Nation, Modernisation and Civilisation
Social Justice and the Politics of Emotions
Transformative governance of biodiversity
The everyday emotional lives of aid workers
Becoming an intellectual’
Investigating community constructed rural water systems in Northwest Cameroon
Increasing children's participation in African transport planning
Actors, arenas and aims
State capacity and development in a post-modern age
Can theatre be used in environmental governance? The view of environmental professionals in Mexico
Disseminating land use land cover change scenarios for improving the role of blue and green infrastructure
Decaf empowerment? Post-Washington Consensus development policy, fair trade and Kenya's coffee industry
Race as a political frontier against caste
The politics of expertise in participatory forestry
Rooting Evaluation Guidelines in Relational Ethics
Reimagining Public Participation in Urban Development
Building agency through participatory video
Empowering Women
Radical Innovation in the Era of Liberal Governance
Post‐sustainable development
Conservation, contraception and controversy
Increasing the Power of the Poor? NGO-led Social Accountability Initiatives and Political Capabilities in Rural Uganda
Wither Participatory Banking? Experiences with Village Banks in South Africa
Development and Participation
Bio-basing society by including emotions
Theorising the Intersection of Public Policy and Personal Lives through the Lens of ‘Participation’
Participatory Methodologies with Victims
The Politics of Participation in Cape Town’s Slum Upgrading
Engaging citizens, depoliticizing society? Training citizens as agents for good governance
Power, Development, and Institutional Change
Can the Design of Community-Driven Development Reduce the Risk of Elite Capture? Evidence from Indonesia
Contesting the hydrocarbon frontiers
Rethinking power and institutions in the shadows of neoliberalism
Knowledge Management in Practice
Fostering equity and wellbeing through water
Presence and property
Community participation for inclusive land administration
Understanding the role of physical spaces in social de-segregations
From cradle to chain? Gendered struggles for cassava commercialisation in Mozambique
Collaboration without consensus
Using causal maps to support ex-post assessment of social impacts of dams
Rethinking participatory video in the times of YouTube
Reconstruction at the meso level
Learning to play chess
National sovereignty through decentralization
World Bank technical assistance
New mechanisms of participation in extractive governance
Indigenous voices and the making of the post-2015 development agenda
Unfulfilled promises of the consultation approach
Humility, autonomy, and simplicity
The seductions of determinism in development theory
Una mirada Ecopolítica al monitoreo ambiental comunitario en la Amazonía Colombiana Caqueteña
Fostering Civil Society Through Community Empowerment
Opium, Power, People
Participation and Passive Revolution
Pathways theatre
Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa
Power and Participatory Development
Myth of Community
The role of the transnational community of non‐government organizations
State Power and Social Forces
The state in society
The Anti-Politics Machine
Programmed to Fail? Development Projects and the Politics of Participation
The Everyday State and Political Society in Eastern India
Enabling Environments
‘Beneath the pavement only soil’
Theft of an Idol
Whose Reality Counts
Consulting the poor in Thailand
Civil society responses to poverty reduction strategies in Nicaragua
Enhancing pro-poor governance in Eastern India
Development Ethics
Development ethics
Making sense of the local state
Participatory rural appraisal (PRA)
Discourse and Power in Development
On State, Society and Discourse in India
The new managerialism in local governance
Participatory development and empowerment
Understanding 'political stability
Accounts and accountability
Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists
A fist is stronger than five fingers’
Rethinking Third World Politics
The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal
How does civil society thicken? the political construction of social capital in rural Mexico
Authority, Gender and Knowledge
The Developmental State Is Dead-Long Live Social Capital
Participation and Power
Blurred Boundaries
Moving the State
| Unique citing works | 164 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,45 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 163 |