Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (DRC): Recent submissions
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Meanings of citizenship in Latin America
(IDS, 2005)This paper introduces the Latin American debate on citizenship. It examines, first, the general conditions of the emergence of the notion in different countries of the continent. Secondly, it discusses what can be seen ... -
Contentious politics, contentious knowledges : mobilising against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil
(IDS, 2005)Debates about science and technology are central to the future of development. No recent controversy has highlighted this as much as the debates about genetically-modified (GM) crops. Looking at the experiences of anti-GM ... -
Managing mobilisation? : participatory processes and dam building in South Africa, the Berg River Project
(IDS, 2005)This paper examines the participatory processes which led to the building of the Berg River Dam in South Africa’s western Cape province. The government-led formal participatory processes initiated by government stand in ... -
From "medical miracles" to normal(ised) medicine : AIDS treatment, activism and citizenship in the UK and South Africa
(IDS, 2005)This paper compares and contrasts the cultures of activism and illness and treatment experiences of UK and South African AIDS activists. By the 1990s AIDS public health discourse in the UK, and elsewhere in the West, was ... -
Rights passages from "near death" to "new life" : AIDS activism and treatment testimonies in South Africa
(IDS, 2005)The paper investigates how the moral politics of AIDS activism in South Africa are contributing towards new forms of biological/health citizenship (Petryna 2002) that are concerned with both rights-based struggles and ... -
Violence, power and participation : building citizenship in contexts of chronic violence
(IDS, 2007)This paper is about civil society participation in two contexts of chronic violence: Colombia and Guatemala. It explores the extent to which civil society organisations can build citizenship in such contexts and ... -
Monsanto and smallholder farmers : a case-study on corporate accountability
(IDS, 2007)The Smallholder Programme (SHP) was an initiative undertaken by the transnational biotechnology, chemicals and seeds company, Monsanto. It had the stated purpose of providing smallholder farmers with a package of ... -
Mobilising citizens : social movements and the politics of knowledge
(IDS, 2007)This paper reflects comparatively on a series of case studies of citizen mobilisation in both north and south, arguing that the politics of knowledge are now central. The cases focus on issues ranging from genetically-modified ... -
Who participates? : civil society and the new democratic politics in São Paulo, Brazil
(IDS, 2003)This paper explores the participation of collective civil society actors in institutional spaces for direct citizen participation in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The data was produced by a unique survey of civil society ... -
Science and citizenship in a global context
(IDS, 2003)Shifting science-society relationships are highly relevant both to contemporary practices of citizenship, their expressions, and to questions around the dynamics of “participation”. Political and economic changes are ... -
Making rights work for the poor : Nijera Kori and the construction of "collective capabilities" in rural Bangladesh
(IDS, 2003)Whilst there is a formal commitment to rights in Bangladesh, spelt out in its constitution, its legal framework and its ratification of various international conventions on rights, the reality for its citizens is one of ... -
Towards an actor-oriented perspective on human rights
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The politics of global assessments: the case of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)
(Taylor and Francis, 2009-10-30)The IAASTD – the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development – which ran between 2003 and 2008, involving over 400 scientists worldwide, was an ambitious attempt to encourage ... -
Mobilizing Against GM Crops in India, South Africa and Brazil
(Wiley Blackwell, 2008-04-01)This paper explores the national and transnational character of mobilization against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil in the ten-year period to 2005. By examining the contexts and practices of mobilization across ... -
Women’s livelihoods, global markets and citizenship
(Institute of Development Studies (UK), 2010-08)The underlying assumption of the economic integration epitomised by globalisation was that it would lead to greater economic participation and an enhancement of livelihood opportunities, which in turn would have positive ... -
NGOs' strategies and the challenge of development and democracy in Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies (UK), 2010-11)Recent research Bangladesh has come to embody an interesting paradox. On the one hand, it has experienced rising rates of growth, a slow but steady decline in poverty and impressive progress in terms of social development, ... -
So what difference does it make? Mapping the outcomes of citizen engagement
(Institute of Development Studies (UK), 2011-03)Over the last two decades, the idea that citizen engagement and participation can contribute to improved governance and development outcomes has been mainstreamed in development policy and discourse. Yet despite the normative ...