1st Edition
Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism Contesting the Boundaries of Democratic Practices
1. Participation and Power Relations: Can Democracy be Renegotiated?
2. The Boundaries of Participation
3. Is Participation Co-optation?
4. Ethics and Deliberative Capital
5. Power as Leverage
6. A Theory of Renegotiation
Appendix: Methodological Reflections
Biography
Markus Holdo is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden, where he teaches and does research on how citizens accomplish social change.
Makus Holdo’s superb book shows how participatory institutions can be useful to contest urban power relations. Delving deeply into concrete practices of participatory budgeting, he brilliantly explores the constraints that global and financialized capitalism imposes over local politics. At the same time, Holdo illustrates how people take advantage of participatory reforms, renegotiate the terms of their involvement, and dispute the established political boundaries.
Patricia García-Espín, Universidad de Granada, author of Las Articulaciones de la Participación.
