%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Zérah, Marie-Hélène
%T Participatory governance in urban management and the shifting geometry of power in Mumbai
%D 2009
%L fdi:010048413
%G ENG
%J Development and Change
%@ 0012-155X
%M ISI:000271973100013
%N 5
%P 853-877
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010048413
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2009/12/010048413.pdf
%V 40
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X This article questions the participatory dimension of urban governance in Mumbai. Based on surveys of a number of participatory projects for urban services, it compares the differentiated impacts of participation in middle-class colonies with those in slums. Results demonstrate that changing citizen-government relationships have led to the empowerment of the middle and upper middle class who harness the potential of new 'invited space' to expand their claims on the city and political space. In contrast, the poor end up on the losing side as NGOs function more as contracted agents of the State than as representatives of the poor. Direct community participation empowers influential community members, small private entrepreneurs and middlemen, and contributes to labour informalization. Ultimately, these processes consolidate a form of 'governing beyond the State' that promotes a managerial vision of participation and leads to double standards of citizenship.
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