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"This book sets out to answer what appears to be a deceptively simple question: how do poor and marginalized citizens engage the state in the global South? Drawing on twelve case studies from the global South, this book explore the politics of 'mediated citizenship' in which citizens are represented to the state through third party intermediaries who 'speak for' the people they represent. These intermediaries include political parties, non-governmental organisations, community-based organisations, socialmovements, armed non-state actors, networks or individuals. Collectively the cases show that mediation is both widely practiced and multi-directional in relations between states and key groups of citizens in the global South. Furthermore, they show how mediated forms of representation may have an important role to play in deepening democracy in the global South"--
List of contents
Introduction: The Crucial Role of Mediators in Relations between States and Citizens; Laurence Piper and Bettina von Lieres PART I: MEDIATING THE CITY 1. Mediation and the Contradictions of Representing the Urban Poor in South Africa: The Case of Sanco Leaders in Imizamo Yethu in Cape Town, South Africa 2. Citizen Power or State Weakness? The Enduring History of Collective Action in a Hyderabadi Bazaar; Shylashri shankar 3. The Politics of Mediation in Fragile Democracies: Building New Social Contracts Through, and for, Democratic Citizenship in Angola; Bettina von Lieres 4. 'Parallel Power' In Rio de Janeiro: Coercive Mediators and the Fragmentation of Citizenship in the Favela; Joanna wheeler PART II: MEDIATING THE NATIONAL 5. Challenging the Gatekeepers: Disability Rights Advocacy and the Struggle for Self-Representation within Lebanon's Postwar Sectarian Democracy; Paul Kingston 6. Mediation in India's Policy Spaces; Deepta Chopra 7. Mediating Active Citizenship and Social Mobility in Working Class Schools: The Case of Equal Education in Khayelitsha, Cape Town; Brahm Fleisch and Steven Robins 8. Mobilising for Democracy: Civil Society Mediation and Access to Policy in India; Ranjita Moha 9. Mediation at the Grassroots: Claiming Rights by Empowering Citizens in Bangladesh; Lopita Huq and Simeen Mahmud PART III: MEDIATING THE POST-NATIONAL 10: Mediation as Diplomacy: Dynamics of Governance and Representation in Brazilian Indigenous Societies; Alex Shankland 11. Achieving First Nation Self-Government In Yukon, Canada: The Mediating Role of the Council for Yukon Indians (cyi), 1975-1995*; Roberta Rice 12. Transnationalisation as Mediation: Uyghur's Rights-Based Mobilisation Outside China; Laura Trajber Waisbich
About the author
Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Deepta Chopra, Institute of Development Studies, India
Brahm Fleisch, Wits School of Education, South Africa
Lopita Huq, BRAC University, India
Paul Kingston, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
Simeen Mahmud, BRAC University, India
Ranjita Mohanty, University of New Delhi, India
Roberta Rice, University of Guelph, Canada
Steven Robins, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Shylashri Shankar, University of New Delhi, India
Alex Shankland, University of Sussex, UK
Laura Trajber Waisbich, Brazilian Centre of Analysis and Planning, Brazil
Joanna Wheeler, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
