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dc.contributor.authorLeal, Pablo Alejandro*
dc.contributor.editorEade, Deborahen
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-24T09:59:35Zen
dc.date.available2011-05-24T09:59:35Zen
dc.date.issued2007-08-01en
dc.identifier.issn0961-4524en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09614520701469518en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10546/130891en
dc.descriptionParticipation was originally conceived as part of a counter-hegemonic approach to radical social transformation and, as such, represented a challenge to the status quo. Paradoxically, throughout the 1980s and 1990s, 'participation' gained legitimacy within the institutional development world to the extent of achieving buzzword status. The precise manipulations required to convert a radical proposal into something that could serve the neo-liberal world order led to participation's political decapitation. Reduced to a series of methodological packages and techniques, participation would slowly lose its philosophical and ideological meaning. In order to make the approach and methodology serve counter-hegemonic processes of grassroots resistance and transformation, these meanings desperately need to be recovered. This calls for participation to be re-articulated within broader processes of social and political struggle in order to facilitate the recovery of social transformation in the world of twenty-first century capitalism.<p>This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p>en
dc.format.extent9en
dc.format.mimetypePDFen
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherOxfam GBen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urlhttp://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/participation-the-ascendancy-of-a-buzzword-in-the-neo-liberal-era-130891
dc.subjectApproach and methodology
dc.titleParticipation: the ascendancy of a buzzword in the neo-liberal eraen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.eissn1364-9213en
dc.identifier.journalDevelopment in Practiceen
oxfam.signoff.statusFor public use – can be shared outside Oxfamen
oxfam.subject.keywordDevelopment methods
oxfam.subject.keywordParticipation
oxfam.subject.keywordDevelopment in Practice Journal
oxfam.subject.keywordDiP
prism.issuenameBuzzwords and Fuzzwords: Deconstructing development discourseen
prism.number4 & 5en
prism.volume17en


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