Relocating Participation within a Radical Politics of Development

Hickey, Sam; Mohan, Giles

doi:10.1111/j.0012-155x.2005.00410.x

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“…The alternative is the promotion of genuine participatory strategies, which require both the transfer of power to the local level and an effective accountability of the political representation (Larson and Ribot, 2004;Ribot, 2002). Hickey and Mohan (2005) indicate that participatory approaches are more likely to succeed where they are pursued as part of a wider radical political project with the involvement of currently marginalized groups.…”

Section: Interrogating the Institutional Water Reformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water reforms in Brazil: opportunities and constraints

Ioris

2009

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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The last decade saw repeated attempts to adopt and implement an integrated management of water in Brazil. Internationally established principles, such as water economics and public participation, have influenced the development of a novel regulatory framework for water use and conservation in the country. However, despite changes in policies and in the legislation, the opportunity to address old and new management problems has been largely frustrated by the internal contradictions of the ongoing institutional reforms. A case study of the Paraiba do Sul River Basin demonstrates the distance between, on the one hand, calls for decentralisation and responsibility sharing and, on the other hand, the persistence of bureaucratised and exclusionary practices. The main distortion is the excessive effort expended on the introduction of water pricing and environmental charges, a controversial policy instrument that has dominated the agenda of the new river basin committee, at the expense of addressing river restoration, public mobilisation and environmental justice.water regulation, integrated water resource management (IWRM), water charges, water pricing, public participation, Paraiba do Sul, Brazil,

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Section: Interrogating the Institutional Water Reformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water reforms in Brazil: opportunities and constraints

Ioris

2009

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…The new approach, termed Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), widened in the 1990s to Post-Sustainable Development 13 include a sense of collaborative learning rather than 'appraisal' (Participatory Learning and Action, PLA). More recently there has been a growing emphasis on participation as a means to facilitate 'knowledge rights' in scientific decision making (Leach et al, 2002) and citizenship (Williams, 2004a;Hickey and Mohan, 2005).…”

Section: Participatory Sustainable Development: a Critiquementioning

confidence: 99%

Post‐sustainable development

Morse

2008

Sustainable Development

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The past 15 years have witnessed the rise of post-development theory as a means of understanding the development discourse since the 1940s. Post-development argues that Intentional development (as distinct from Immanent development -what people are doing anyway), is a construct of Western hegemony. Sustainable development, they argue, is no different and indeed is perhaps worse given that most of the global environmental degradation has been driven by consumerism and industrialisation in the West. Critics of post-development counter by stating that it only provides destruction by tearing apart what is currently practiced in 'development' without providing an alternative. When post-developmentalists do offer an alternative it typically amouints to little more than a call for more grassroots involvement in development and disengagement from a Western agenda. Post-sustainable development analysis and counter-analysis has received remarkably little attention within the sustainable development literature, yet this paper argues that it can make a positive contributrion by calling for an analysis of discourse rather than a hiding of power differentials and an assumption that consensus must exist within a community.A case is made for a post-sustainable development which acknolwedges that diversity will exist and consensus may not be achievable, but at the same time participation can help with learning. The role of the expert within sustainable development is also discussed.

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“…Yet, critiques of participatory methods -their application, the assumptions they embed and the simplistic ways they are, at times, employed to address gender and social exclusionare plentiful (Cooke & Kothari 2001;Cornwall 2003;Hayward et al 2004;Hickey & Mohan 2005;Resurreccion & Elmhirst 2008;Paris et al 2008). Participatory methods arose specifically from a need to incorporate the voices of marginalized people; a challenge that requires careful attention to whose participation should be sought and how it can best be achieved (Wollenberg et al 2005;lilja & Dixon 2011).…”

Section: Seeking Out Gender In Participatory Researchmentioning

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Gender-responsive participatory research for social learning and sustainable forest management

Elias¹,

Jalonen²,

Fernandez

et al. 2016

Forests, Trees and Livelihoods

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Participatory research on forests has been commended for fostering social learning, innovation, community empowerment, social inclusion, and leading to more sustainable resource management. Yet, critiques of participatory approaches -and of the simplistic ways they are, at times, employed to address gender and social exclusionalso abound. These call for new strategies to meaningfully engage socially differentiated men and women in research on natural resource management. This special issue focuses on the nexus between gender and participatory research in forest and woodland management. It examines: (1) the diversity of stakeholders' forest-related knowledge, skills, needs and priorities in forest-dependent communities through the use of gender-responsive participatory approaches, and (2) choices in research design that can foster inclusive participation, knowledge sharing and social learning within and among social groups. In this introductory paper, we position the special issue in relation to critiques regarding the lack of attention to gender in participatory research. We then summarize the authors empirical findings, contextually rooted across four African and Asian countries, and their importance for understanding the value, opportunities and challenges of working with participatory methods, both from the perspective of the researchers and of the research participants. The papers illustrate that traditional ecological knowledge is neither homogeneously distributed within communities nor concentrated among socially more powerful groups who, in the absence of a gender-responsive approach, are often the ones selected as research participants. The authors offer an optimistic view of the potential participatory methods hold, when applied in a gender-responsive way, for sharing knowledge and promoting inclusive social learning on forests and tree resources. Papers demonstrate the need to carefully consider when to create segregated or mixed spaces -or indeed both -for participants to create situations in which social learning within and across diverse social groups can occur.

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Relocating Participation within a Radical Politics of Development

Cited by 387 publications

References 52 publications

Water reforms in Brazil: opportunities and constraints

Water reforms in Brazil: opportunities and constraints

Post‐sustainable development

Gender-responsive participatory research for social learning and sustainable forest management

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