Researcher profile -
John Gaventa
Citizenship DRC Director
Institute of Development Studies
Brighton, BN1 9RE, UK
Telephone:
+44 (0) 1273 915732
E-mail:
j.gaventa@ids.ac.uk
Biography
John Gaventa is Director of the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability, a professor and member of the Power, Participation and Social Change Team at IDS. He is a political sociologist with over 25 years experience of research, training and practice in participation and development in both North and South. Areas of specialisation include participatory methods of research, learning and action; participation, power and empowerment; participation and governance; rural poverty, inequality and poverty alleviation; NGO's and civil society; participatory monitoring and evaluation; South-North linkages and relations.
Projects
Project - ‘Not about us without us’ Linking Local and Global Citizen Advocacy with Marj Mayo– part of 'Local-Global Citizen Engagements' Research Programme
Summary - The aim of this research is to examine the question of how to build effective global social movements and advocacy coalitions - which in some ways express an emergent sense of global citizenship - whilst ensuring representation and involvement of the local and national citizens and coalitions for whom the global movements profess to speak
Latest Publications
Forthcoming: Gaventa, J., (2006), Triumph, Deficit or Contestation: Deepening the Deepening Democracy Debate, IDS Working Paper
Gaventa, J., 2006, ‘Perspectives on Participation and Citizenship,’ in Mohanty, R. and Tandon, R., Participatory Citizenship, New Delhi : Sage Books
Gaventa, J., 2004, ‘Towards Participatory Governance: Assessing the Transformative Possibilities’, in Hickey, S. and Mohan, G. (eds), From Tyranny to Transformation, London : Zed Books
Gaventa, J., Brok, K., and McGee, R.(eds), (2004), Unpacking Policy Processes: Actors, Knowledge and Spaces, Kampala : Fountain Press and Africa Book Collective
Gaventa, J. and Edwards, M. (eds),, (2001), Global Citizen Action, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Reinner and London: Earthscan
He is also the series editor of the DRC’s Zed book series on ‘Claiming Citizenship.’