Paradox of participation: giving or taking part?

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology - Tập 14 Số 3 - Trang 154-165 - 2004
Kerlijn Quaghebeur1, Jan Masschelein1, Hoai Huong Nguyen2
1Centre for Camparative, Intercultural and Development Education, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium
2Institute of Ethnology, National Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam

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AbstractIn this article we address our experiences with a so‐called participatory approach in a Vietnamese‐Belgian water management project. This project aimed, in its social science component, at stimulating and studying processes of reflexive social learning and of participation and negotiation on local water management issues and on project activities. In this article we intend to show how specific project‐related strategies and attempts towards facilitating participation fail and how other initiatives seem to succeed or at least to elicit valuable processes of negotiation and learning. We start from the commonly held view on participation as committed to reverse or subvert power relations. However, our research experiences indicate that participation is always part of an operation of power, governing people to behave themselves in a particular determined way. From this Foucauldian governmental perspective, we are able to reconsider the success and failure of participatory approaches, not so much in terms of the effectiveness of their application, but rather in terms of the possibility to refuse ‘participatory’ government. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Tập 14 Số 3

154-165

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