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oapen-20.500.12657-794272023-11-15T09:17:26Z Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism Holdo, Markus Argentina;Capitalism;Cities;Democracy;Democratic theory;Grassroots democracy;Participatory democracy;Planning;Rosario;Urban planning;Urban studies bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape art & architecture bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape art & architecture::AMVD City & town planning - architectural aspects bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPH Political structure & processes::JPHV Political structures: democracy Can people use new participatory spaces to reclaim their rights as citizens and challenge structures of political power? This book carefully examines the constraints and possibilities for participatory governance under capitalism. To understand what is at stake in the politics of participation, we need to look beyond the values commonly associated with it. Citizens face a dilemma: should they participate, even if this helps to sustain an unjust system, or not participate, thereby turning down rare opportunities to make a difference? By examining the rationale behind democratic innovation and the reasons people have for getting involved, this book provides a theory of how citizens can use new democratic spaces to challenge political boundaries. Connecting numerous international case studies and presenting original research from Rosario, Argentina, this book offers a crucial corrective to previous research. What matters most is not the design of new models of participation nor is it the supposed radical imagination of political leaders. It is whether people use new spaces for participation to renegotiate what democracy means in practice. Bridging critical urban studies and democratic theory, this book will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of democratic innovations, political economy and urban planning. It will also provide activists and practitioners of participatory democracy with important tools to expand spaces of grassroots democracy. 2023-11-09T12:42:33Z 2023-11-09T12:42:33Z 2024 book 9781032536279 9781032537887 9781003413622 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/79427 eng Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9781000959758.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003413622 10.4324/9781003413622 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 8cdaec7c-855c-462a-a7ec-40efd079522d 9781032536279 9781032537887 9781003413622 Routledge 144 Uppsala Universitet Uppsala University open access
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Can people use new participatory spaces to reclaim their rights as citizens and challenge structures of political power? This book carefully examines the constraints and possibilities for participatory governance under capitalism.
To understand what is at stake in the politics of participation, we need to look beyond the values commonly associated with it. Citizens face a dilemma: should they participate, even if this helps to sustain an unjust system, or not participate, thereby turning down rare opportunities to make a difference? By examining the rationale behind democratic innovation and the reasons people have for getting involved, this book provides a theory of how citizens can use new democratic spaces to challenge political boundaries. Connecting numerous international case studies and presenting original research from Rosario, Argentina, this book offers a crucial corrective to previous research. What matters most is not the design of new models of participation nor is it the supposed radical imagination of political leaders. It is whether people use new spaces for participation to renegotiate what democracy means in practice.
Bridging critical urban studies and democratic theory, this book will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of democratic innovations, political economy and urban planning. It will also provide activists and practitioners of participatory democracy with important tools to expand spaces of grassroots democracy.
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