Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism Contesting the Boundaries of Democratic Practices

• Main Author: Holdo, Markus
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Taylor & Francis 2023; Routledge; Taylor and Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
• Subjects: Architecture; Argentina; Capitalism; Cities; City and town planning: architectural aspects; Civil engineering, surveying and building; Civil Society; Civil Society Leaders; Conditional Cooperation; Democracy; Democratic Innovation; Democratic theory; Dissatisfaction; Dynamic Spaces; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Follow; Global Justice Movement; Grassroots democracy; Held; Inclined; Interdisciplinary studies; Landscape; Landscape architecture; Landscape architecture and design; Nonfiction; Participatory Budgeting; Participatory democracy; Participatory Spaces; Participatory Trend; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Planning; Political Ideologies; Political Science; Political structure and processes; Political structures: democracy; Politics; Politics and government; Porto Alegre’s Participatory Budget; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional and area planning; Rosario; Samhällsvetenskap; Social and political philosophy; Social groups, communities and identities; Social Sciences; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; State Civil Society Interaction; Statsvetenskap; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; The Arts; Topics in philosophy; Urban & Land Use Planning; Urban and municipal planning and policy; Urban Capitalism; Urban communities; Urban planning; Urban Politics; Urban studies; Western District; Worthwhile; Porto Alegre's Participatory Budget; Dissatisfaction; Grassroots democracy; Inclined; Participatory Spaces; Conditional Cooperation; Participatory Budgeting; Civil Society; Urban Politics; Follow; Urban Capitalism; Resistance Perspective; Participatory democracy; Western District; Democratic Youth Movement; Argentina; Urban planning; Rosario; Democratic theory; Participatory Budget Councils; Democratic Innovation; Dynamic Spaces; Capitalism; Global Justice Movement; Central Coordination Team; Urban studies; Participatory Trend; Worthwhile; Participatory Reforms; Held; Democracy; Civil Society Leaders; State Civil Society Interaction; Planning; Cities
• ISBN: 9781000959758; 1000959759; 9781032537887; 1032536276; 9781032536279; 1032537884; 9781003413622; 1003413625; 9781000959772; 1000959775
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003413622

Can people use new participatory spaces to reclaim their rights as citizens and challenge structures of political power? This book carefully examines the constraints and possibilities for participatory governance under capitalism. To understand what is at stake in the politics of participation, we need to look beyond the values commonly associated with it. Citizens face a dilemma: should they participate, even if this helps to sustain an unjust system, or not participate, thereby turning down rare opportunities to make a difference? By examining the rationale behind democratic innovation and the reasons people have for getting involved, this book provides a theory of how citizens can use new democratic spaces to challenge political boundaries. Connecting numerous international case studies and presenting original research from Rosario, Argentina, this book offers a crucial corrective to previous research. What matters most is not the design of new models of participation nor is it the supposed radical imagination of political leaders. It is whether people use new spaces for participation to renegotiate what democracy means in practice. Bridging critical urban studies and democratic theory, this book will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of democratic innovations, political economy and urban planning. It will also provide activists and practitioners of participatory democracy with important tools to expand spaces of grassroots democracy.