Counter-governance : citizen participation beyond collaboration
- 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.
Author: | Rikki John Dean |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-472244 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1221 |
ISSN: | 2183-2463 |
Parent Title (English): | Politics and Governance |
Publisher: | Cogitatio Press |
Place of publication: | Lisbon |
Contributor(s): | Liz Richardson |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2018 |
Date of first Publication: | 2018/04/03 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2018/08/14 |
Tag: | agonism; collaborative governance; counter-democracy; counter-governance; participation; participatory governance; urban governance |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Page Number: | 9 |
First Page: | 180 |
Last Page: | 188 |
Note: | © 2018 by the author; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY). |
HeBIS-PPN: | 451037294 |
Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |