Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (DRC): Recent submissions
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Spanning citizenship spaces through transnational coalitions : the case of the Global Campaign for Education
(IDS, 2009)How do changing patterns of power and governance affect how and where citizens mobilise collectively to claim their rights? This paper presents a case study of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), a civil society ... -
Quantifying the impact of social mobilisation in rural Bangladesh : donors, civil society and 'the road not taken'
(IDS, 2009)As part of a general trend toward a reduced role for the state, international donors have increasingly encouraged development NGOs to take up a service delivery function. In Bangladesh, this has induced NGOs to shift ... -
Hybrid activism : paths of globalisation in the Brazilian environmental movement
(IDS, 2009)Focusing on two case studies of environmental activism in Brazil, this paper argues against theories that consider local and global activism as two separate realms. Instead, it is argued here that transnational activists ... -
Citizenship narratives in the absence of good governance : voices of the working poor in Bangladesh
(IDS, 2009)The complex nature of the challenge posed by state–society relations to the realisation of citizenship rights in the poorer countries of the world reflects the incapacity or unwillingness on the part of the state to ... -
Deliberating democracy : scenes from a Brazilian municipal health council
(IDS, 2007)Brazil’s participatory policy councils may have gained less international attention than Participatory Budgeting. Yet the thousands of sectoral participatory policy councils that have come into being since the early ... -
Mobilising and mediating global medicine and health citizenship : the politics of AIDS knowledge production in rural South Africa
(IDS, 2009)The paper investigates the ways in which global health messages and forms of health citizenship are mediated by AIDS activists in rural South Africa. It focuses on how international health agencies and NGOs engage with ... -
Transnational agrarian movements struggling for land and citizenship rights
(IDS, 2009)Rural citizens have increasingly begun to invoke perceived citizenship rights at transnational level, such that rural citizen engagements today have the potential to generate new meanings of global citizenship. La Vía ... -
Constructing transnational action research networks : observations and reflections from the case of the Citizenship DRC
(IDS, 2008)Many contemporary issues of development and governance are complex beyond the capacities of single institutions or countries. As a result, in recent years we have seen growing attention paid to the importance of networks ... -
In whose name? : political representation and civil organisations in Brazil
(IDS, 2005)There is now considerable evidence that civil organisations have become de facto and de jure representatives of particular segments of the population and interests in the design, implementation, and monitoring of public ... -
MMR mobilisation : citizens and science in a British vaccine controversy
(IDS, 2005)This paper examines the controversy over measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine in Britain through the lenses of social movement theory and social studies of science. Since the early 1990s, networks of parents have ... -
When social movements bypass the poor : asbestos pollution, international litigation and Griqua cultural identity
(IDS, 2005)This paper examines citizen mobilisation and activism in relation to asbestos disease and litigation. Although the litigation of Cape plc, a British company mining asbestos in South Africa, has been seen as a success ... -
The backstage of civil society : protagonisms, networks, and affinities between civil organisations in São Paulo
(IDS, 2008)The extraordinary attention raised by civil society in the academic world and in national and international circuits of public policymakers has paradoxically contributed to overshadow civil organisations, their diversity, ... -
Rights-based approaches and beyond : challenges of linking rights and participation
(IDS, 2004)As more and more development and human rights organisations critically assess their impact and strategies, there is growing convergence in the questions they raise about how to be most effective in addressing structural, ... -
Somewhere over the rainbow? : the politics and dilemmas of researching citizenship and marginality
(IDS, 2007)Research on development is normative, engaged and seeks to make a difference since it focuses on the excluded, on power relations and aims at the empowerment of the voiceless and increasingly on the ‘pedagogy of the ... -
Associations and the exercise of citizenship in new democracies : evidence from São Paulo and Mexico City
(IDS, 2007)A well-established body of democratic theory suggests that associations are the schools of democracy and, because they produce civic and active citizens, are vital to the quality of democracy. In this paper we find that ... -
Corporate accountability to the poor? : assessing the effectiveness of community-based strategies
(IDS, 2004)This paper investigates how, when and why community-based strategies are effective in promoting corporate accountability to the poor. It argues that mainstream approaches to corporate social responsibility (CSR) underestimate ... -
Triumph, deficit or contestation? : deepening the 'deepening democracy' debate
(IDS, 2006)Around the world concepts and constructions of democracy are under contestation. Some analysts see the spread of democratic institutional designs as evidence of democracy’s triumph. Others – across both north and south ... -
Civil society participation in trade policy-making in Latin America : reflections and lessons
(IDS, 2006)This paper explores the question of civil society engagement with trade policy in Latin America, identifying key factors which shape the dynamics and possibilities of participation. These include (a) key strategic issues ... -
Unpacking rights and wrongs : do human rights make a difference? : the case of water rights in India and South Africa
(IDS, 2005)This paper focuses on why poor and marginalised people still lack access to economic, social and cultural rights (also known as positive rights), despite a fairly mainstream support to positive rights in mainstream development ... -
The formation of the Brazilian environmental movement
(IDS, 2005)Relying on a conceptual synthesis provided by the Political Processes Theory, this paper explains the formation of the Brazilian environmental movement from the 1970s to the 1990s. The authors argue that this formation ...