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Given the inquiry into deep participation, its six elements, and the illustrative case studies, we now begin to have a sense of its inherent complexity. There is also little understanding of participatory dynamics by social theorists, and even participation practitioners, in the context of rapid social change. As a result, there is only minimal support for theorists in their efforts to develop a participatory social theory or for practitioners in their efforts to assist communities in achieving their aspirations in this situation. The intent here, then, is to begin a theoretical discussion on what this category of theory should include. My contribution here in defining deep participation in the context of rapid social change and then offering a beginning formulation of this new theory is a modest one in terms of the large amount of work required to complete the task. But it does provide a substantial starting point upon which participatory social theory can be developed in full.
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WorldCat, an online worldwide catalog now lists much of this literature. Also, several of these authors have also been included in Andrea Cornwall’s (2011) recently published edited volume, Participation Reader (London: Zed Books).
Claude Levi-Strauss (1963), Structural Anthropology (New York: Basic Books), p. 335.
Immanuel Wallerstein (2004), “New Revolts against the System”, in Tom Mertes, ed., A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible? (London: Verso), pp. 262–274;
and Immanuel Wallerstein (1999), The End of the World as We Know It (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
See, for example, Achille Mbembe (2001), On the postcolony (Berkeley: University of California Press).
Raewyn Connell (2007), Southern Theory (Cambridge, UK: Polity), pp. 44–46.
James Ferguson (2006), Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), pp. 3–7.
Bruce Kapferer, ed. (2007), Retreat of the Social: The Rise and Rise of Reductionism (New York, Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books), p. 1.
Mary Douglas (1986), How Institutions Think (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press), p. 53.
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Roark, P.D. (2015). Stalemate or Reinvention?. In: Social Justice and Deep Participation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137436870_9
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