Participation Reader

Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Anthropology and Development in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Beneficiary, Consumer, Citizen (2000) and Democratizing Engagement and co-editor of Pathways to Participation (with Garett Pratt, 2003), Spaces for Change?(with Vera Schattan Coelho, 2006) and The Politics of Rights (with Maxine Molyneux, 09).

• Part I - What is Participation?1. A Ladder of Citizen Participation - Sherry R. Arnstein2. The Many Faces of Participation - Matthias Stiefel and Marshall Wolfe3. What is Meant by People's Participation? - N. C. Saxena4. Participation's Place in Rural Development: Seeking Clarity Through Specificity - John Cohen and Norman Uphoff5. Depoliticizing Development: the Uses and Abuses of Participation - Sarah White6. Participation: the Ascendancy of a Buzzword in the Neo-Liberal Era - Pablo Alejandro LealPart II - Participatory Methodologies: Principles and Applications7. Production and Diffusion of New Knowledge - Orlando Fals Borda8. The Historical Roots and Contemporary Urges in Participatory Research - Rajesh Tandon9. New Paradigm Research Manifesto - New Paradigm Research Group London10. Doing Feminist Participatory Research - Patricia Maguire11. Cooperative Inquiry - Peter Reason12. PRA Five Years Later - Robert Chambers and Irene Guijt13. Ten Myths About PRA - Ian Scoones14. Growing From the Grassroots: Building Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Methods in PARC - Janet Symes and Sa'ed Jasser15. Tools for Empowerment: Community Exchanges - Sheela Patel16. Citizens Juries: a Radical Alternative for Social Research - Tom Wakeford17. Voices Aloud: Making Communication and Change Together - Oga Steve Abah18. Powerful Grassroots Women Communicators: Participatory Video in Bangladesh - Renuka Bery and Sara StuartPart III - Community and Participatory Development: Principles and Practice19. Managing Local Participation: Rhetoric and Reality - Robert Chambers20. Community Participation: History, Concepts and Controversies - James Midgley21. The Making and Marketing of Participatory Development - David Mosse22. Whose Voices? Whose Choices? Reflections on Gender and Participatory Development - Andrea Cornwall23. Ethnicity and Participatory Development Methods in Botswana: Some Participants Are to Be Seen and Not Heard - Tlamelo Mompati and Gerard Prinsen24. Towards a Repoliticization of Participatory Development: Political Capabilities and Spaces of Empowerment - Glyn WilliamsPart IV - Participaton in Governance25. Towards Participatory Local Governance: Six Propositions for Discussion - John Gaventa26. The Politics of Domesticating Participation in Rural India - Ranjita Mohanty27. Aiding Policy? Civil society Engagement in Tanzania's PRSP - Elaina Mack28. Participation Without Representation: Chiefs, Councils and Forestry Law in the West African Sahel - Jesse C. Ribo29. Talking Politics in Participatory Governance - Gianpaolo Baocchi30. Co-Governance for Accountability: Beyond 'Exit' and 'Voice' - John AckermanPart V - Participation as Collective Action: Mobilization, Insurgency and Struggle31. Users as Citizens: Collective Action and the Local Governance of Welfare - Marion Barnes32. Insurgency and Spaces of Active Citizenship: the Story of the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in South Africa - Faranak Miraftab and Shana Wills33. Pedagogical Guerrillas, Armed Democrats and Revolutionary Counter-Publics: Examining Paradox in the Zapatista Uprising in Chiapas, Mexico - Josee Johnston34. Bodies as Sites of Struggle: Naripokkho and the Movement for Women's Rights in Bangladesh - Shireen Huq35. Citizenship: a Perverse Confluence - Evelina Dagnino

Cornwall's Participation Reader, which brings together some of the most insightful writings on the discourses, politics and practice of participation in development since the 1960s, is a valuable document of record. The articles are lively, well written and provide the necessary critical engagement with one of the most contentious but often taken for granted ideas in development. The Participation Reader is certain to become a must read for all students, teachers, researchers and practitioners of development.