The power of participation

The potential for participatory processes to shift the balance of power, create better solutions and practical ways to do participation. 

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You can find out more about the live sessions that accompany this podcast here. 

Sources and further reading

Learn more about Mothers2Mothers and other frugal innovations in Charles Leadbeater's book and talk, The Frugal Innovator - Innovation on a Shoestring Budget

Read more about Jamkhet in Tina Rosenburg’s book, Join the Club - How peer pressure can transform the world.

See the full Family by Family video here and watch the Making of Family by Family video.

Read more about the Virtual Village.

Learn more about Kota Kita’s work supporting participatory budgeting in Indonesia, through participatory data. 

Read David Mosse’s ethnographic monograph about who defines success in chapter 8 of Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice. (Require academic access)

Learn more about the Interplay Framework for Aboriginal wellbeing in Sheree Cairney’s TedXStKilda talk.

Learn more about the participatory process behind the Uluru Statement from the Heart, in this lecture from Megan Davis and detailed article The long road to Uluru, Walking together – truth before justice, in Griffith Review.

Hear Professor David Farrel talk about Ireland’s experiments with deliberative democracy. 

Watch women fight mining with peaceful ‘weaving protest’ in West Timor. 

For Chris’ favourite videos about participation see this playlist.

 Credits

Music: “▲ 1” from BUNONG ▲ POP SONGS by Les Cartes Postales Sonores From the Free Music Archive CC BY-NC-SA

Field recordings from NOISE ON EARTH Vol​.​1 ៚ CAMBODIA by Les Cartes Postales Sonores From the Free Music Archive CC BY-NC-SA

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