Literature Review on Local-Global Citizen Engagement
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This document was prepared for the Citizenship DRC working group on Local-Global Citizenship Engagements in preparation for a workshop of its members in Brighton, England 25-27 September 2006. This working group asked how citizens perceive and engage with global processes and in turn, what impact global processes actually have on the meanings and practices of citizenship, given their locations in diverse historical and cultural settings. The results of this research are now being published as a Working Paper Series.
This literature review was intended to provide an overview of some of the most prominent academic debates relevant to this research agenda, focusing on authors from UK and U.S. institutions. Researchers from the two other members of the Citizenship DRC – The Society for Participatory Research in Asia, headquartered in New Delhi, and the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento, located in São Paulo – conducted parallel reviews of the literature from their respective regions.
The works abstracted in this literature review were selected through an initial keyword search of books and journals at the University of Sussex and the British Library for Development Studies, then by a review of the bibliographies of the publications deemed most relevant. From among the more than 100 works located, the authors selected the most recent and most widely cited items for abstracting, seeking to reflect some of the dimensions of the relevant debates in anthropology, international relations, sociology, development studies, political science and democratic theory.
Two research assistants from the Institute of Development Studies, Tamara Levine and Nicholas Benequista, largely contributed to this literature review under the guidance of John Gaventa, a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies and director of the Citizenship DRC. Rajesh Tandon and Marj Mayo also provided valuable comments on drafts of this document.
An update to the literature review, included in this document as an annex, was carried out by research assistant Greg Barrett in 2009.
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Literature Review on Local-Global Citizen Engagement by Nicholas Benequista and Tamara Levine (2006)
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