TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dean, Rikki John
T1  - Counter-governance : citizen participation beyond collaboration
T2  - Politics and Governance
N2  - The theory and practice of urban governance in recent years has undergone both a collaborative and participatory turn. The strong connection between collaboration and participation has meant that citizen participation in urban governance has been conceived in a very particular way: as varying levels of partnership between state actors and citizens. This over-focus on collaboration has led to: 1) a dearth of proposals in theory and practice for citizens to engage oppositionally with institutions; 2) the miscasting of agonistic opportunities for participation as forms of collaboration; 3) an inability to recognise the irruption of agonistic practices into participatory procedures. This article attempts to expand the conception of participatory urban governance by adapting Rosanvallon’s (2008) three democratic counter-powers—prevention, oversight and judgement—to consider options for institutionalising agonistic participatory practices. It argues that these counter-governance processes would more fully realise the inclusion agenda that underpins the participatory governance project.
KW  - agonism
KW  - collaborative governance
KW  - counter-democracy
KW  - counter-governance
KW  - participation
KW  - participatory governance
KW  - urban governance
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47224
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-472244
SN  - 2183-2463
N1  - © 2018 by the author; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SP  - 180
EP  - 188
PB  - Cogitatio Press
CY  - Lisbon
ER  -