Spaces for Change?

Andrea Cornwall is a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. She is author of Beneficiary, Consumer, Citizen: Perspectives on Participation for Poverty Reduction (2000), co-editor of Realizing Rights: Transforming Approaches to Sexual and Reproductive Wellbeing (Zed 2002) and Pathways to Participation (2003).Vera Schattan P. Coelho is a political scientist. She is a researcher and project co-ordinator at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning in São Paulo, Brazil. She is the author of numerous articles on health policy, pension reform, and participatory governance and is editor of Pension Reform in Latin America (2003) and Participation and Deliberation in Contemporary Brazil (2004).

'This book constitutes a thorough and stimulating guide to the prospects for this emerging participatory sphere. It combines theoretical sophistication with incisive case analysis of deliberative spaces, with a much-needed focus on the developing world.' John Dryzek, Australian National University 'The various contributions to this extremely significant volume, painstakingly and effectively bridge the chasm between normative theories of participative democracy on the one hand, and empirical analysis on the other. Democratic theorists and development practitioners will learn and cite from this volume for years to come.' Neera Chandhoke, University of Delhi

• Foreword - John Gaventa1. Spaces for Change? The Politics of Participation in New Democratic Arenas - Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan P. CoelhoPart I: The Challenge of Inclusion2. Brazilian Health Councils: including the excluded? - Vera Schattan P. Coelho3. Spaces for participation in health systems in rural Bangladesh: the experience of stakeholder community groups - Simeen Mahmud4. Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces: the politics of domesticating participation in rural India - Ranjita Mohanty5. Social change and community participation: the case of Health Facilities Boards in the Western Cape of South Africa - John J. Williams6. Civil organizations and political representation in Brazil's participatory institutions - Graziela Castello, Adrián Gurza Lavalle and Peter P. Houtzager7. Inclusion and representation in democratic deliberations: lessons from Canada's Romanow Commission - Bettina von Lieres and David KahanePart II: The Politics of Institutionalised Participation7. Negotiating participation in a Brazilian Municipal Health Council - Andrea Cornwall8. Subverting the spaces of invitation? Local politics and participatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires - Dennis Rodgers9. Participation, mutation and political transition: new democratic spaces in peri-urban Angola - Sandra Roque and Alex Shankland10. Participation, mutation and political transition: new democratic spaces in peri-urban Angola - Sandra Roque and Alex Shankland11. Citizen participation in South Africa: land struggles and HIV/AIDS activism - Bettina von Lieres12. Whose spaces? Contestations and negotiations in health and community regeneration forums in England - Marian Barnes