The participation reader / edited by Andrea Cornwall.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A ladder of citizen participation / Sherry R. Arnstein -- The many faces of participation / Matthias Stiefel and Marshall Wolfe -- What is meant by people's participation? / N.C. Saxena -- Participation's place in rural development : seeking clarity through specificity / John Cohen and Norman Uphoff -- Depoliticizing development : the uses and abuses of participation / Sarah White -- Participation : the ascendancy of a buzzword in the neo-liberal era / Pablo Alejandro Leal -- Production and diffusion of new knowledge / Orlando Fals Borda -- The historical roots and contemporary urges in participatory research / Rajesh Tandon -- New Paradigm Research Manifesto / New Paradigm Research Group London -- Doing feminist participatory research / Patricia Maguire -- Cooperative inquiry / Peter Reason -- PRA five years later / Robert Chambers and Irene Guijt -- Ten myths about PRA / Ian Scoones -- Growing from the grassroots : building participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation methods in PARC / Janet Symes and Sa'ed Jasser -- Tools for empowerment : community exchanges / Sheela Patel -- Citizens juries : a radical alternative for social research / Tom Wakeford -- Voices aloud : making communication and change together / Oga Steve Abah -- Powerful grassroots women communicators : participatory video in Bangladesh / Renuka Bery and Sara Stuart -- Managing local participation : rhetoric and reality / Robert Chambers -- Community participation : history, concepts and controversies / James Midgley -- The making and marketing of participatory development / David Mosse -- Whose voices? Whose choices? Reflections on gender and participatory development / Andrea Cornwall -- Ethnicity and participatory development methods in Botswana : some participants are to be seen and not heard / Tlamelo Mompati and Gerard Prinsen -- Towards a repoliticization of participatory development : political capabilities and spaces of empowerment / Glyn Williams -- Towards participatory local governance : six propositions for discussion / John Gaventa -- The politics of domesticating participation in rural India / Ranjita Mohanty -- Aiding policy? Civil society engagement in Tanzania's PRSP / Elaina Mack -- Participation without representation : chiefs, councils and forestry law in the West African Sahel / Jesse C. Ribot -- Talking politics in participatory governance / Gianpaolo Baocchi -- Co-governance for accountability : beyond 'exit' and 'voice' / John Ackerman -- Users as citizens : collective action and the local governance of welfare / Marion Barnes -- Insurgency and spaces of active citizenship : the story of the Western Cape anti-eviction campaign in South Africa / Faranak Miraftab and Shana Wills -- Pedagogical guerrillas, armed democrats and revolutionary counter-publics : examining paradox in the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico / Josee Johnston -- Bodies as sites of struggle : Naripokkho and the movement for women's rights in Bangladesh / Shireen Huq -- Citizenship : a perverse confluence / Evelina Dagnino.