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Kristian Stokke is Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oslo, specialising in movement politics and democratisation in South Africa and conflict dynamics and transformation in Sri Lanka. His recent publications include the anthologies Democratising Development: The Politics of Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa (with Jones), Politicising Democracy: The New Local Politics of Democratisation (with Harriss and Törnquist), and the articles ”Maximum Working Class Unity? Challenges to Local Social Movement Unionism in Cape Town” in Antipode (with Lier), “Fisheries under Fire: Impacts of War and Challenges of Reconstruction and Development in Jaffna Fisheries, Sri Lanka” in Norwegian Journal of Geography (with Soosai), and “Participatory Development and Empowerment: The Dangers of Localism” in Third World Quarterly (with Mohan).
Olle Törnquist is Professor of Political Science and Development Research at the University of Oslo and co-director of Demos, the Indonesian Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies. He has published extensively on politics and development, radical politics and problems of democratisation in comparative perspective. His recent books include Politics and Development: A Critical Introduction, Popular Development and Democracy: Case Studies in the Philippines, Indonesia and Kerala, Indonesia’s Post-Soeharto Democracy Movement (with Prasetyo and Priyono) and Making Democracy Meaningful: Problems and Options in Indonesia (with Priyono and Samadhi) and the anthology Politicising Democracy: The New Local Politics of Democratisation (with Harriss and Stokke).
Neil Webster (PhD) is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Politics and Governance Research Unit at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen. He has researched extensively on the politics of local governance, civil society, and poverty reduction, primarily in South Asia and works as a policy adviser for Danida, UNDP, UNCDF amongst others. Among recent publications are In the Name of the Poor: Contesting Political Space for Poverty Reduction (co-edited with Engberg-Pedersen) and ‘Understanding the evolving diversities and originalities in rural social movements in West Bengal' in K. Ghimire’s Civil Society and the Market Question.
| List of Illustrations | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Notes on the Contributors | p. xi |
| Introduction: The Problem is Representation! Towards an Analytical Framework | p. 1 |
| What is the Relationship Between Participation and Representation? | p. 25 |
| The Paradox of Civil Society Representation: Constructing New Forms of Democratic Legitimacy in Brazil | p. 39 |
| Symbolic Representation as Political Practice | p. 59 |
| School Provision, the Capacity to Aspire, and the State of Popular Representation in West Bengal | p. 79 |
| The Politics of Gradualismo: Popular Participation and Decentralised Governance in Mozambique | p. 99 |
| Representation by Design? Variations on Participatory Reforms in Brazilian Municípios | p. 119 |
| Patronage Democracy in Provincial Indonesia | p. 141 |
| Compromised Democracy: Observations on Popular Democratic Representation from Urban India | p. 161 |
| Trade Unions and Popular Representation: Nigeria and South Africa Compared | p. 179 |
| Popular Politics of Representation: New Lessons from the Pioneering Projects in Indonesia, Kerala, and the Philippines | p. 197 |
| From Research to Practice: Towards the Democratic Institutionalisation of Nodes for Improved Representation | p. 223 |
| References Index | p. 235 |
| Index | p. 257 |
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