Participation and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century City

✍ Scribed by Jenny Pearce (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 288
Series: Non-Governmental Public Action
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-N10
Introduction....Pages 1-33
Co-Producing Knowledge Critical Reflections on Researching Participation....Pages 34-50
Porto Alegre Popular Sovereignty or Dependent Citizens?....Pages 51-75
Porto Alegre From Municipal Innovations to the Culturally Embedded Micro-Politics of (Un)Emancipated Citizens: The Case of Rubbish Recyclers....Pages 76-99
Caracas The State and Peoples’ Power in the Barrio....Pages 100-126
Medellín Participatory Creativity in a Conflictive City....Pages 127-153
Manchester Between the Grassroots and City Hall: Participation in a Global City....Pages 154-179
Bradford Professionalised Participation in a Northern De-Industrialised City....Pages 180-204
Salford Beyond Parochialism: The Challenge of Participation for Change in a Working-Class City....Pages 205-228
Conclusion Participation as a Field of Study and Practice: A Modest Contribution....Pages 229-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-263

✦ Subjects

Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Political Sociology; Political Science; Development Studies; Democracy

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Participation and Democracy in the Twent

📁 Participation and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century City (Non-Governmental Public Action)

✍ Jenny Pearce 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan 🌐 English

Democracy and Crisis: Democratising Gove

📁 Democracy and Crisis: Democratising Governance in the Twenty-First Century

✍ Benjamin Isakhan, Steven Slaughter (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan UK 🌐 English

Belarus in the Twenty-First Century: Bet

📁 Belarus in the Twenty-First Century: Between Dictatorship and Democracy

✍ Elena Korosteleva, Irina Petrova, Anastasiia Kudlenko 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

This book presents a comprehensive overview of current developments in Belarus. It explores how there has been an upswelling of popular support for the idea that Belarus must change. It highlights how the old regime, aiming to retain the Soviet legacy, reluctant to reform, presiding over worsening e

Twenty-First Century Democracy

📁 Twenty-First Century Democracy

✍ Philip Resnick 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 McGill-Queen's University Press 🌐 English

<p>According to a recent feature in The Economist, democracy has been only half achieved this century and should flower in the next. In preparation for new forms of democracy, well-known political theorist Philip Resnick addresses some of the fundamental questions surrounding the practice of democra

Twenty-First Century Democracy

📁 Twenty-First Century Democracy

✍ Philip Resnick 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Mcgill Queens University Press 🌐 English

Addresses some of the fundamental questions surrounding the practice of democracy at the end of the 20th century and the difficulties of governance in the 21st century, including issues of globalization, nationalism, and direct democracy. Topics in this text range from a utopian-style foray into pos

The Mexican Transition: Politics, Cultur

📁 The Mexican Transition: Politics, Culture and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

✍ Roger Bartra 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 University of Wales Press 🌐 English