Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of
rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries
between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result,
governance is commonly linked to 'bottom-up' or community-based
approaches to planning and development, which are said to 'empower'
rural citizens and liberate them from the disabling structures of
top-down government control. At the same time, however, a range of
other actors beyond the local level have also become increasingly
influential in determining the future of rural spaces, thereby
embedding rural citizens within new configurations of power
relations. This book critically explores the social causes and
consequences of these emerging governance arrangements. In
particular, the book seeks to move beyond questions of empowerment
in governance debates and to consider how new kinds of power
relations arise between the various actors involved. The book
addresses questions concerning the nature of power relations in
contemporary forms of rural governance, including: how community
participation is negotiated and achieved; the effects of such
participation upon the formulation and delivery of rural policies;
the kinds of conflicts that arise between various stakeholder
groups and the capacity of each group to promote its interests; and
the prospects of this new approach for enhanced democratic
governance in rural areas.
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