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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