Community Empowerment: A Reader in Participation and Development (Experiences of Grassroots Development) - Softcover

Mayo, Marjorie; Craig, Professor Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856493385 ISBN 13: 9781856493383

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

This work reviews contemporary campaigns for community participation and empowerment throughout the world. It describes the context of globalization, international restructuring and increasing polarization between North and South and within individual states, and assesses the relevance to selp-help and community participation of developments within the "mixed economy of welfare". It critiques the concept of empowerment and demonstrates how communities are taking more control over key social and economic issues that confront them.

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About the Author

Rajesh Tandon is the founder and executive director of PRIA (Society for Participatory Research in Asia), and has been an activist-scholar for the past three decades, focusing on issues such as citizenship and participatory governance, participatory research and building civil society alliances. In addition to his writing and scholarship, he has served as a civil society leader in India and internationally, including serving as a founding member and chair of CIVICUS, programme director of the Citizens and Governance Programme of the Commonwealth Foundation and chair of the Montreal International Forum (FIM). He has been active participant in the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability and served as co-convenor of the working group on globalising citizen engagements. John Gaventa is a Research Professor and Fellow in the Participation, Power and Social Change Team at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. A political sociologist by training, he has written widely on issues of power, citizen action, participation and democracy, including the award winning Power and Powerlessness in an Appalachian Valley (1980) and Global Citizen Action (co-editor, 2001). He also has been active with a number of NGOs and civil society organisations internationally, including the Highlander Centre in the United States and Oxfam in the UK. He is the director of the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability and served as co-convenor of the working group on globalising citizen engagements.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1856493385
• ISBN 13: 9781856493383
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240