Titre :	The Global Discourse on "Participation" and its Emergence in Biodiversity Protection
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Olivier CHANOZ
Editeur :	Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Année de publication :	2009/July
Collection :	Working Paper n°83
Importance :	34 p.
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	1954-3131
Langues :	Anglais
Résumé :	This paper inquires into the nature of "participation" as a cross-section set of principles now applied to many issues of global concern. It argues that "participation" is a type of "global discourse" that is central to current forms of global governance, as well as to debates on, and around, globalisation. It sheds light on the internal mechanics of the call for "ever-broader participation" by social actors in decisions that affect them - as well as on the normative and instrumental grounds from which this call draws its strength. Turning to the protection of biodiversity, it shows how the global wave of participatory principles reached the shores of this specific policy field, upon what rationales (both topdown and bottom-up) it came to be perceived as a "natural" approach within environmentalist circles, and the types of promises this social methodology implies. It then points to doubts that have emerged about the participatory approach and to the lack of analysis of both history and power structures in the analytical frameworks often used by international donors when designing and evaluating participatory projects.
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The Global Discourse on "Participation" and its Emergence in Biodiversity Protection [texte imprimé] / Olivier CHANOZ . - [S.l.] : Agence Française de Développement (AFD), 2009/July . - 34 p.. - (Working Paper n°83) .
ISSN : 1954-3131
Langues : Anglais

Résumé :

This paper inquires into the nature of "participation" as a cross-section set of principles now applied to many issues of global concern. It argues that "participation" is a type of "global discourse" that is central to current forms of global governance, as well as to debates on, and around, globalisation. It sheds light on the internal mechanics of the call for "ever-broader participation" by social actors in decisions that affect them - as well as on the normative and instrumental grounds from which this call draws its strength. Turning to the protection of biodiversity, it shows how the global wave of participatory principles reached the shores of this specific policy field, upon what rationales (both topdown and bottom-up) it came to be perceived as a "natural" approach within environmentalist circles, and the types of promises this social methodology implies. It then points to doubts that have emerged about the participatory approach and to the lack of analysis of both history and power structures in the analytical frameworks often used by international donors when designing and evaluating participatory projects.

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