کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5073450 1477115 2016 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Voicing noise: Political agency and the trialectics of participation in urban Malawi
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
صدا سر و صدا: آژانس سیاسی و کارگزاران مشارکت در شهر مالاوی
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی


- The article analyses the transformative potential of participatory planning and slum upgrading spaces in Malawi.
- To be transformative, 'claimed', 'invited' and 'invented' dimensions of participation need to connect and overlap.
- The 'invented' dimension of participation is the least developed in Malawi, and needs to be strengthened.

Participation is promoted as the main engine for transformation in urban planning and slum upgrading in Malawi, despite the fact that most projects never get beyond the planning stage. Serious participation fatigue has been identified in many areas, but little is done to change the dominant script. This article comes out of an action research project with groups of urban poor and their organizations in Malawi. It analyses existing spaces in which participatory planning and slum upgrading take place, and reflects on what combinations of participatory spaces that might serve to enable change. The authors define political agency and locate potential transformation in agonistic spaces that open up for rupture and for people's interest to be accepted as voice rather than noise. At the same time, participants in urban Malawi often wish to be included into existing frameworks rather than challenging them. The article therefore explores a third way between a programme of insurgent radical action and the more pragmatic consensus-based participation model practised in Malawi today. Here, the potential for transformation is to be found not within one group or one type of space, but in the ways in which different spaces of participation connect, overlap and partly constitute each other. To better understand the transformative potential of participation in the context of urban planning in Malawi, we thus propose a 'trialectics' of participatory spaces where 'claimed', 'invited' and 'invented' dimensions of participation connect, overlap, and open up for ways in which actors can meet.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Geoforum - Volume 74, August 2016, Pages 136-146
نویسندگان
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