Foreword / John Gaventa
Acronyms
Spaces for change? The politics of participation in new democratic arenas / Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan P. Coelho
The challenge of inclusion
Brazilian health councils: including the excluded? / Vera Schattan P. Coelho
Spaces for participation in health systems in rural Bangladesh: the experience of stakeholder community groups / Simeen Mahmud
Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces: the politics of domesticating participation in rural India / Ranjita Mohanty
Social change and community participation: the case of health facilities boards in the Western Cape of South Africa / John J. Williams
Civil organizations and political representation in Brazil's participatory institutions / Graziela Castello, Adrin Gurza Lavalle and Peter P. Houtzager
Inclusion and representation in democratic deliberations: lessons from Canada's Romanow Commission / Bettina von Lieres and David Kahane
The politics of institutionalised participation
Negotiating participation in a Brazilian municipal health council / Andrea Cornwall
Subverting the spaces of invitation? Local politics and participatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires / Dennis Rodgers
Participation, mutation and political transition: new democratic spaces in peri-urban Angola / Sandra Roque and Alex Shankland
Citizen participation in South Africa: land struggles and HIV/AIDS activism / Bettina von Lieres
Whose spaces? Contestations and negotiations in health and community regeneration forums in England / Marian Barne
About the contributors
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Spaces for change? : the politics of citizen participation in new democratic arenas. ISBN 9781842775523. Published by Zed in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.