Participatory Development: From Epistemological Reversals to Active Citizenship
Participatory Development: From Epistemological Reversals to Active Citizenship
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参与式发展：从认识论逆转到积极公民意识
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2007
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G. Mohan
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G. Mohan
过去十年，人们普遍参与地球仪的治理，努力让更多边缘化人群参与影响他们的决策过程。在一个层面上，显然存在着一种共识，即有必要将公民与政策进程重新联系起来，这一进程已经经历了不同形式的直接民主试验。这些实验的共同点是改变认识论，了解边缘化人群的感受和需要。这篇文章描绘了参与式治理的兴起，并对支撑它的认识论假设提出了批评。一个关键的批评是，不断变化的认识论本身并不能保证更有意义的参与，因此也需要协调一致的制度变革。我认为，为了使参与变得更具变革性，我们需要将其视为一种公民身份，在这种公民身份中，政治进程被制度化，人们可以追究他人的责任。这一振兴的公民议程也是空间化的，因为人们对世界的理解和他们可用的政治渠道是地方差异化和偶然性的。结论是呼吁对新的参与形式的展开进行更具地域敏感性的实证研究。
The past decade has witnessed the ubiquity of participation in governance across the globe, involving efforts to bring more marginalised people into the decision-making processes that affect them. At one level, there is an apparent consensus around the need to reconnect citizens with the policy process, which has seen experiments in different forms of direct democracy. Common to these experiments is changing epistemologies in terms of knowing what marginalised people feel and need. This article charts the rise of participatory governance and offers a critique of the epistemological assumptions that underpin it. A key critique is that changing epistemologies, by themselves, are no guarantee of more meaningful participation so that concerted institutional change is also needed. I argue that for participation to become more transformatory we need to see it as a form of citizenship in which political processes are institutionalised and people can hold others to account. This revitalised citizenship agenda is also spatialised in that peoples’ understandings of the world and the political channels available to them are locally differentiated and contingent. The conclusion is a call for more geographically sensitive empirical research on the unfolding of new forms of participation.