Posted on January 13th, 2010 by Pathways through Participation in Archived project news
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ShareThisOur project looks at participation in a very broad way, and covers a wide range of participatory activities that are often viewed in isolation. This broad approach to participation has informed our literature review, which is now available for download.
The review brings together different bodies of literature on participation, including literature on community development, volunteering, public participation, social movements, everyday politics and ethical consumption. It looks at the historical and current drivers of participation, the activities and actors of participation and different theoretical approaches that contribute to a better understanding of participation. It closes with our emerging ‘participation framework’ that we aim to further develop and refine in the subsequent stages of the project.
We are currently producing some short summaries on different aspects of the review. These will be uploaded on the website as soon as they are completed.
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For info, this report has 50 pages.
We wrote the literature review in such a way that we hope it can be dipped into according to the particular area of participation that you might be interested in, as we appreciate that many people won’t have the time to read it cover to cover.
You can navigate your way round it by clicking on the different coloured bars on the contents page - this will take you straight to the section you are most interested in (e.g. theory, motivations, etc).
This is a very useful piece of work. To be read by all those with an interest in and responsibilities for community engagement activities.
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How do you cite this report please?
Hi Lauri, thanks for your question. You can cite the report as follows:
Pathways through participation (2009) Understanding participation: a literature review. London: Pathways through participation
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