Living Cities in Japan: Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and by André Sorensen, Carolin Funck

Living Cities in Japan: Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and by André Sorensen, Carolin Funck

By André Sorensen, Carolin Funck

Over the final fifteen years neighborhood electorate' hobbies have unfold speedily all through Japan. Created with the purpose of enhancing the standard of the neighborhood surroundings, and of environmental administration tactics, such actions are commonly often called machizukuri, and signify an enormous improvement in neighborhood politics and concrete administration in Japan.

This quantity examines the expansion and nature of such civil society participation in neighborhood city and environmental governance, elevating very important questions about the altering roles of and family members among imperative and native govt, and among electorate and the nation, in handling shared areas. The machizukuri tactics studied right here might be obvious because the concentration of an incredible rising development towards elevated civic participation in handling methods of city switch in Japan. The members supply a accomplished assessment of the machizukuri phenomenon via exam not just of idea and background, but additionally of case experiences illustrating actual adjustments within the associations of position making and neighbourhood governance.

Living towns in Japan may be of specific worth to readers drawn to social, city, geographical and environmental stories.

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This context has encouraged the emergence of a critical theoretical literature on participation that applies concepts from social psychology, political science, management studies, and sociology to unpack some of the contradictions common in participatory development practices, asking whether participation may be creating a ‘new tyranny of participation’ (see Cooke and Kothari 2001). Put simply, this approach identifies the ‘tyranny of decision-making and control’ in which participatory processes override existing legitimate decision-making processes, the ‘tyranny of the group’ where group dynamics can lead to participatory decisions that privilege the most powerful or even to results that no one wants, and the ‘tyranny of method’ in which participatory methods block the use of other methods that may work better (Cooke and Kothari 2001: 7).

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