Planning from Below: A Decentralized Participatory Planning Proposal - Softcover

Harnecker, Marta; Bartolome, Jose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583677550 ISBN 13: 9781583677551

Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S., 2019

Synopsis

A simple and revolutionary toolbox to help any group create an actual and functioning democracy

In this book, Marta Harnecker, with Spanish economist José Bartolomé, shares some of her wisdom on how communities everywhere can gain empowerment. For, when impoverished people became involved in the planning process, they no longer feel like beggars demanding solutions from the state; they become the creators of their own destiny.

Set out in two parts; this book first demonstrates the importance of community participants working outside a hierarchy, to allow as much decentralization as possible. The second part of the book centers on the methodology of this process: the various tasks taken on by participants and how, in planning processes over years, they are carried out.

About this title

About the Author

Marta Harnecker is director of the Center for Research on Popular Memory in Latin America (MEPLA) in Havana and author of Venezuela: Militares Junta al Pueblo and numerous books on the Latin American left. Jose Bartolome, born in Spain, is an economist, sociologist, and documentary filmmaker.

Edition details

• Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1583677550
• ISBN 13: 9781583677551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264