Community Engagement & Participation

Call2_Project Rendering the Real

by Sireita Mullings

Project Rendering the Real, is calling for participants for an interactive symposium and exhibition by project titled the “Fourth Moment”.

March 22nd – April 27th 2012.

www.renderingthereal.com

The intention is to interrogate the visual representations of art practitioners and their project participants, by way... more The intention is to interrogate the visual representations of art practitioners and their project participants, by way of papers, presentations, workshops and artwork.

The exhibition and symposium will run between
March 22nd – April 27th 2012.

Visit www.renderingthereal.com for more information.

Pelibatan Masyarakat Sebagai Etika Dalam Formulasi Kebijakan Publik Guna Mencegah Praktik Korupsi

by yahya zakaria

Dipresentasikan pada Simposium Nasional Asosiasi Ilmuwan Administrasi Negara (SIMNAS ASIAN) ke-2 di Universitas Slamet Riyadi, Surakarta, tanggal 10 Pebruari 2012

Korupsi di Indonesia yang telah terjadi sejak era Orde Baru, belum juga mampu terselesaikan hingga saat ini di tengah... more Korupsi di Indonesia yang telah terjadi sejak era Orde Baru, belum juga mampu terselesaikan hingga saat ini di tengah perubahan menuju era demokrasi yang mengedepankan transparansi dan akuntabilitas, berlabel reformasi. Setelah rezim Soeharto turun di tahun 1998, hembusan otonomi daerah meningkat sebagai sebuah antitesa dari sistem sentralistik yang dibangun rezim Soeharto, tetapi setelah berjalannya otonomi daerah, praktik maladministrasi berupa korupsi belum juga menemukan titik cerah penyelesaiannya, bahkan kini telah menjadi wabah mengkhawatirkan, menyerang hingga ke tingkat daerah. Tak terhitung lagi berapa banyak pejabat di tingkat pusat hingga daerah serta legislator di tingkat pusat dan daerah yang terbelit kasus kosupsi, hingga akhirnya berdampak pada pengikisan kepercayaan masyarakat terhadap para penyelenggara pemerintahan. Beragam upaya pencegahan dan penyelesaian masalah korupsi telah dilakukan melalui banyak cara, mulai dari pendidikan korupsi di berbagai lembaga pendidikan, pelatihan di beragam instansi, pembentukan lembaga negara bantu layaknya KPK, serta regulasi yang mengatur masalah gratifikasi hingga renumerasi. Dari beragam upaya tersebut, praktik pencegahan serta pengungkapan kasus korupsi kerap menemui banyak kendala serta hambatan yang pada akhirnya menyebabkan tidak tercapainya tujuan yang diharapkan. Pada titik ini, disamping beragam upaya yang telah dilakukan, terdapat satu hal penting yang terlewat dan belum ditindaklanjuti secara serius oleh para penyelenggara pemerintahan guna melakukan pencegahan korupsi secara efektif, yakni menggagas konsep pelibatan masyarakat dalam berbagai kebijakan publik sebagai sebuah kontrol nyata dari masyarakat, dimana masyarakat didorong untuk berpran aktif mengetahui informasi, terlibat dalam perumusan yang pada akhirnya akan mampu mengontrol implementasi kebijakan. Asumsinya, masyarakat yang terlibat dalam proses formulasi akan mengetahui secara matang beragam informasi terkait sebuah kebijakan hingga akhirnya saat diimplementasikan, masyarakat akan mengetahui jika terdapat penyelewengan berupa praktik korupsi. Lebih lanjut, praktik pelibatan masyarakat tersebut harus mampu dijadikan sebagai sebuah etika bagi seluruh pengambil kebijakan demi terwujudnya praktik penyelenggaraan pemerintahan yang bersih

INCREASING STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION IN CLUSTER IDENTIFICATION

by Lukas Brun

An updated version of this paper (co-authored with G. Jason Jolley) is published in Economic Development Quarterly 25:3 (August 2011) pp.211-220.

Industry cluster analysis has become an important policy tool in state and local economic development planning.... more Industry cluster analysis has become an important policy tool in state and local economic development planning. Although cluster analysis is generally conceived as an expert-led technical analysis, it can be re-framed to engage stakeholders in a collaborative process. This paper illustrates how one community pursued a collaborative approach to cluster identification and the costs and benefits of the method. It finds that increased stakeholder participation in the cluster identification stage improved the analytical quality of the analysis, developed community and political acceptance of the results, and defined a new industry cluster to accommodate stakeholder preferences. The primary cost was the time and money required to implement a collaborative approach to cluster identification.

Badham, Marnie, “Cultural Indicators: a tool for community engagement?” (2009), International Journal for Arts and Society, Common Ground Publishing.

by Marnie Badham

Cognitive aspects of participation: Evidence from 3 studies

by Ryszard Stocki

Submitted for publication

Participation always has three aspects: physical, legal and cognitive - related to the cognitive structures of persons... more Participation always has three aspects: physical, legal and cognitive - related to the cognitive structures of persons involved in participative behavior. The trouble of proving the effects of participation lies in the mismatch between the three aspects. In economic studies we usually rely on the physical or legal aspects and real participation's consequences can hardly be measured, as they do not necessarily coincide with the declarations. In our studies, we decided to construct a formal model of ownership, assuming that the relation „A owns B” is only one of 10 similar relations on a spectrum from „A is a part of B” - greatest involvement to „A does not know about B” - the least involvement. Participation in management may be described by means of this model as various instances of „ownership spectrum” where „A” and „B” take different values of: a person, an institution, a community, a group, an object (material, energetic, informational, purchasing).
Once formalized we can view the studies in participation from one, system theory point of view, and formulate the hypotheses related to both aspects of ownership as it is revealed in a variety of participation forms. In our studies we have applied multiple measures of both participation and effectiveness. We measured various aspects of organization functioning, we also asked employees to fill in questionnaires related to their perception of various forms of participation. We also conducted similar studies in non-profit organization, where there is no possibility of legal ownership, yet different levels of cognitive ownership may be noticed. The possible consequences of this approach to participation for future research and managerial practice will be presented.

Systems Theory Approach to the Health Care Organization on National Level

by Ryszard Stocki

Bielecki & Stocki

National health care systems have been found ineffective in most countries. The subsystems of the health care systems... more National health care systems have been found ineffective in most countries. The subsystems of the health care systems are not autonomous and as such cannot be competitive in the market. A participative health care system with empowered patients as customers and hospitals as providers is proposed. The consequences for both further modeling and implementation of such systems are discussed.

Reclaiming The Sacred: A Festival Experience as a Response to Globalisation

by Karin Mackay

published in Journal for the Study of Religion, vol 24, No 2, 2011

Pressures of globalisation such as the focus on the growth of productive economies, consumerism, and long work-hours... more Pressures of globalisation such as the focus on the growth of productive economies, consumerism, and long work-hours have fragmented cultural beliefs and practices worldwide. Devaluation of deeply held soulful, creative, and nature-based practices in the dominant neoliberal capitalist discourse has challenged the way cultural and spiritual wellbeing are lived. Instead of being completely subsumed into the neoliberal global discourse, local responses incorporating global themes are emerging in the form of the “neo-tribal” festival experience. Although festivals have primarily been seen as places of consumption, this misunderstands the drive to participate in a festival experience. This article investigates a women’s arts and ecology festival held in The Blue Mountains, Australia, where members of the local community celebrate the return of spring. Findings suggest that this festival was a site for reclaiming a localized sense of connectedness, where participants reclaimed what was sacred to them. I will argue that consumerism is secondary to the desire for a sacred synergy of connectedness at this festival where critical creative action challenges the neoliberal and patriarchal discourses in the negotiation of global culture.

Doe je mee? Jongeren en participatie aan het verenigingsleven.

by Bram Vanhoutte

Book Chapter
Vanhoutte, B. (2007). Doe je mee? Jongeren en participatie aan het verenigingsleven. In: Vettenburg N., Elchardus M., Walgrave L. (Eds.), Jongeren in cijfers en letters. Bevindingen uit de JOP-monitor 1. (pp. 175-187). Tielt:.LannooCampus.

Hanging out with "Trouble-Causers": Planning and Governance in Urban Zimbabwe

by Amin Y. Kamete

Published in Urban Studies

Taking the relational nature of participatory governance as a point of departure, this paper interrogates the... more Taking the relational nature of participatory governance as a point of departure, this paper interrogates the attitude, behaviour and thinking of planners in urban Zimbabwe. Particular emphasis is placed on the planners' interaction with the public. The discussion analyses one city's planning system as it implements an ambitious “governance outreach programme” which involves interacting with youths who are using public space illegally. The central argument of the paper is that it is difficult to operationalise participatory governance in planning mainly because the relational nature of governance requires planners to act in ways that conflict with their preferred role as technical experts. The discussion exposes how pointless it can be for bureaucrats to interact with the public, when the participants' attitude, means, behaviour and style express no confidence in the institutional framework. The paper suggests that the transformation from government to governance is not merely procedural, and requires a deep cultural change on the part of planners.

Place-making, participative archaeologies and Mursi megaliths

by Tim Clack

co-authored with Dr Marcus Brittain (CAU, University of Cambridge, UK)

Here we present the context and nature of findings from the first season of archaeological survey and trial excavation... more Here we present the context and nature of findings from the first season of archaeological survey and trial excavation in an area of Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley. With the exception of well-documented early hominin discoveries, the region has previously been overlooked as a wilderness absent of human inhabitation. Such an outlook has fostered various consequences for strategies of legal, research and conservation policy within the regional boundaries of Mursiland in particular. In this paper recent discoveries of megalithic circular platforms and other archaeological remains are introduced against their dynamic
local and regional placement within present-day understandings of place. Furthermore, we emphasise the value of a participative archaeology research framework in which accountability is directed towards common ground between multiple ‘‘stake-holders’’ within the design and dissemination of the research agenda. This demonstrates important possibilities for intricate understandings of wilderness and landscape linked to heritage, conservation, development and tourism.

Introduction: Rethinking the Public: Innovations In Research, Theory and Politics

by Nick Mahony

Making Democracy Spectacular

by Nick Mahony

Mediating the Publics of Public Participation Experiments

by Nick Mahony

Conclusion: Rethinking the Public: innovations in research, theory and politics

by Nick Mahony

Glipses of a Better World: The role of the tangata whenua, community & voluntary sector in the Canterbury Earthquake recovery

by Garth Nowland-Foreman

Paper presented to "Our Future Community and Voluntary Sector Forum" Hosted by Council of Social Services Christchurch & Te Runaka ki Otautahu Kai Tahu, 28 July 2011. 

Hard to Reach Communities: Living in the UK, and Issues Facing British Muslims of Kashmiri Heritage Born & Bred in the UK

by Owais Rajput

In my presentation I will focus on British Muslim Communities living in UK; my main focus will be on the British local... more In my presentation I will focus on British Muslim Communities living in UK; my main focus will be on the British local community with Kashmiri heritage, as most of the time they are labelled in the media as “Home Grown Radicalised” Muslims, even if they are the fourth & fifth generation born & bred in UK.

I will also focus on Processes to Radicalisation in UK, in local communities, again particularly in the Kashmiri community.

I will also focus on design and delivery processes so far used by authorities in de-radicalisation processes and the results so far, and why we need to change those design and delivery processes, especially when we focus on the British Diaspora with Kashmiri heritage, the fourth & fifth generation born & bred in the UK.

Fereydoon Kenar Community Participation and Development of Local Environment Programmes through Community-based Organizations

by Saeid Nouri Neshat

The paper has been submitted within the framework of the UNEP/GEF Siberian Crane Wetland Project, and published in the Project Completion Workshop Proceedings held in Harbin, China October 14-15, 2009.

To achieve sustainable and systematic management regimes at the sites of the UNEP/GEF Siberian Crane Wetlands Project... more To achieve sustainable and systematic management regimes at the sites of the UNEP/GEF Siberian Crane Wetlands Project (SCWP) in Iran, the national consultant on community participation put much more efforts into building the capacity of local stakeholders in terms of developing community-based
organizations in Fereydoon Kenar, as local groups that can act as facilitators during the process of empowerment. In the present paper, while trying to define the concept of local participation in conservation activities in general, the author will try to open up a debate on empowerment at different levels in Fereydoon Kenar site in Iran, focusing more on Community-based organizations as local groups that can play the role of facilitators in the process of local participation.
In Fereydoon Kenar, the process of empowerment entered into a new phase when such small community groups shaped through using action research methodologies in villages, however the groups are yet to be more empowered to play an active
facilitating role in near future.

Education under the ConDems

by John Schostak

This was a talk I gave at a conference held at Manchester Metropolitan University, in 2010. The conference was titled In Defense of Youth Work. In the UK due to 'austerity measures' instigated by the neoliberal coalition government composed of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats youth work along with public services in general are under attack. The conference was an attempt to think of ways forward. There are videos of the talks given at the conference. See: http://www.indefenceofyouthwork.org.uk/wordpress/?page_id=760

La participación como bien de consumo: una aproximación conceptual a las formas de implicación de los usuarios en proyectos audiovisuales colaborativos

by Antoni Roig Telo

This paper focuses on the concept of participation, widely used —and also contested— in relation to the engagement of... more This paper focuses on the concept of participation, widely used —and also contested— in relation to the engagement of users in the creation of media content.on the internet. particularly, our interest lies in the participation of publics in the design, development and diffusion of complex media products, such as feature films, webseries or transmedia projects. even if most of the academic debates on user agency, in terms of participation, are connected to content sharing platforms —which rely heavily on user–generated content—, or the so–called social media, the engagement of individuals in participatory–related media projects becomes an important contribution to the delimitation and reevaluation of key concepts around the engagement of users in cultural production processes.

Social Justice and Video: Imagining as a Right in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

by Jessica Hallenbeck