Rights-based Approaches: Recovering Past Innovations

Miller, Valerie; VeneKlasen, Lisa; Clark, Cindy

doi:10.1111/j.1759-5436.2005.tb00178.x

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“…There are a number of reasons for this (Miller et al, 2005a(Miller et al, , 2005b, but perhaps the Post-Sustainable Development 12 foremost is that many developing countries emerged from a non-democratic colonial past during the late 1950s and 1960s. Truman was highly critical of colonialism and the US was a major force in encouraging disengagement of its European friends from their Empires.…”

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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Section: Participatory Sustainable Development: a Critiquementioning

confidence: 99%

Post‐sustainable development

Morse

2008

Sustainable Development

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“…These debates have given rise to policy paradigms, attendant networks of resources, technologies of rule, and legal mechanisms intended to operationalize transparency and accountability which are global in scope. Whether it be within good governance agendas, in which a streamlined and efficient state and public services are intended to deliver value for money and support the functioning of markets (Anders ), or rights‐based agendas (Joshi ; Miller, VeneKlasen & Clark ), in which the state is cast as a provider of public goods monitored by a mix of state anti‐corruption bureaux, civil society organizations, and active citizens, the idea that information about state services should not just be collected but also flow and be accessible to the public has become a familiar principle, if less often an everyday practice.…”

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Seeking signs of transparency: audit, materiality, and monuments to active citizenship in New Delhi

Webb

2019

Royal Anthropological Inst

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In New Delhi, the Chief Information Commissioner has ordered that municipal councillors should 'proactively disclose' details of the amounts spent on public works via Hindi-language noticeboards displayed in every city ward. As 'appropriate' technology designed to reach out to the common people, the noticeboards are part of an ongoing technomoral project to develop and democratize citizen engagement with urban governance. An audit of the noticeboards carried out by Information Commission officials and 'right to information' activists reveals that many are badly positioned or assembled from inappropriate materials. As such, they are judged to be unreliable actants in the project to prefigure a more open and transparent city administration. A focus on the materiality and temporal orientation of the noticeboards, however, reveals them to be productive in other ways. We come to understand the noticeboards as monuments to earlier projects of active citizenship and as ongoing sites of contest or collaboration between actors concerned with their audit and remediation.

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“…Gender inequality is an important consideration in terms of who takes on leadership positions: An additional concern is the invisibility of power relations that exist in processes of public participation for those living in poverty and marginalisation. In participatory development initiatives, policies and programmes may well be predetermined (Miller et al 2005b). In these cases the citizen group may act as a way of reinforcing or legitimising a decision or process that is not truly shaped by people living in poverty.…”

Section: Citizen Groups Engaging In Policy and Programmesmentioning

confidence: 99%