Re-politicizing participation or reframing environmental governance? Beyond indigenous’ prior consultation and citizen participation

Merino, Roger

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.06.025

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“…Weak administrative structure in local government to support community participation [ 24 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 40 ] 5 10% 8 5. Uncoordinated national development policies [ 58 , 69 ] 2 4% 11 6. No meaningful evaluation of community transformation and project success [ 43 , 53 ] 2 2% 11 7.…”

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“…Such tensions are ranked as the third challenge within stakeholder engagement processes. Although 4 out of the 7 barriers have been cited less, it is noted that existing stakeholder engagement processes are less effective due to: weak administrative structures in local government to support community participation [ 24 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 40 ]; uncoordinated national development policies [ 58 , 69 ]; an absence of meaningful evaluation of community transformation and project success [ 43 , 53 ], and conflictive objectives between governments and communities [ 37 ].…”

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Assessing the state of the art in community engagement for participatory decision-making in disaster risk-sensitive urban development

Geekiyanage

Fernando

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2020

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Vulnerable communities are often marginalized in the decision-making process in urban development due to barriers to community entry and challenges for community engagement. The state-of-the-art on these constraints’ limits to a specific region, state, or a context; thus, the knowledge is scattered and not forming a global perspective on how and why communities’ engagement in urban development has been hindered. Having a sound understanding of the existing barriers and challenges to community inclusive decision-making process is paramount for finding solutions for transforming current practices towards equitable urban development. Accordingly, this comprehensive, structured literature review aims to consolidate literature of the current challenges and barriers to community-driven decision-making in urban development and of the potential solutions to overcome them. A structured literature review covering indexed publications from 2010 to 2020 was carried out to identify and classify barriers/challenges and solutions that exist at present. Following a systematic filtering process, a total of 63 out of 1324 research contributions have been considered for an in-depth analysis. The study found 48 barriers and challenges regarding the current context, available infrastructure for community engagement, and current decision-making processes. Of all, the lack of communities’ knowledge and awareness, absence of meaningful community engagement, and ill-defined aims and purpose of community engagement were identified as the topmost constraints. By synthesising the current research, the study found that these barriers can potentially be overcome through attitude transformation and capacity building of both community and professionals, investment in community engagement, and changes to present stakeholder engagement processes and policies.

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Section: Findings and The Discussion Of The Structured Literature Revmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the state of the art in community engagement for participatory decision-making in disaster risk-sensitive urban development

Geekiyanage

Fernando

Keraminiyage

2020

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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“…Although economic actors could demand stronger institutions in the context of resource abundance if coalitions between exporters and political elites are created (Saylor, 2014), they have fewer incentives to support institutions that may affect their interests (Leifsen et al, 2017). Researchers have also emphasised how groups that benefit from the distributive outcome of institutions may mobilise in support of institutional strengthening (e.g., Bebbington & Bury, 2009; Falleti & Riofrancos, 2018; Merino, 2018). Hence, whereas previous research has advanced our understanding of the interests and sources of power of domestic elites and reform‐oriented groups, we contribute to these debates by exploring how international actors alter political dynamics, with important implications for the trajectory of resource governance institutions.…”

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Domestication of international norms for sustainable resource governance: Elite capture in Peru

2020

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In recent years, international actors have promoted international norms related to sustainable and inclusive resource governance. However, we know little about how such attempts are contested and adapted in domestic reform processes. Drawing on insights from norm diffusion and institutionalist theories, this article traces how first bilateral aid agencies and then OECD have influenced the institutionalisation of a contested land-use planning (LUP) reform in Peru from 1990 until 2017. Based on 145 interviews and written primary sources, we demonstrate that aid agencies have partially empowered policy coalitions (e.g., civil society and subnational actors) in favour of LUP, whereas OECD's interventions have favoured national elites opposed to LUP. In both cases, we argue that by failing to foresee the political resistance among economic actors and national elites, international actors have contributed to the weakening and elite capture of LUP. Hence, our analysis represents a case of weakly institutionalized norms. The findings extend the existing literature on extractive governance by providing a fine-grained analysis of the process in which national elites and societal coalitions domesticate the institutionalisation of international norms for sustainable and inclusive resource governance. Our findings have broader implications for debates about extractive governance as well as policy strategies for promoting institutional change in resource-rich middle-income countries.

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“…However, whereas indigenous peoples now demand full implementation of consultation, at the same time, they criticise the consultation legal framework as ‘a mere formality’ or ‘a requirement to validate extractive activities’ (Interview with anonymous informants, 2017a, b). Recent discussions on institutional reforms as a consequence of strong popular pressure (Schilling‐Vacaflor et al, ; Merino, ; Gustafsson and Scurrah, ) have emphasised how new institutions are used by governments to co‐opt radical demands. Governments, in this way, translate the struggles for self‐determination into limited institutional arrangements.…”

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“…Ultimately, indigenous national and international political articulations forced the government to repeal the decrees. This was the beginning of a new wave of institutional reforms for dealing with indigenous peoples, including the 2011 approval of the Prior Consultation Law (Merino, ).…”

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Rethinking Indigenous Politics: The Unnoticed Struggle for Self‐Determination in Peru

Merino

2019

Bull Latin American Res

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Most scholars characterise Peru as a country with weak indigenous movements, whose demands would have no influence in regional and national policies, even though its socioeconomic structures are similar to those of Bolivia and Ecuador, where indigenous movements are stronger. Based on fieldwork in the northern Peruvian Amazon and Lima between 2012-2013 and 2016-2018, this article argues that pro-indigenous legislation enacted as a response to strong indigenous mobilisation as well as the creation of indigenous autonomous governments in the Amazon express an unnoticed struggle for indigenous self-determination. These social phenomena also raise questions about the common assessment of the strength or weakness of indigenous movements.

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Re-politicizing participation or reframing environmental governance? Beyond indigenous’ prior consultation and citizen participation

Cited by 70 publications

References 25 publications

Assessing the state of the art in community engagement for participatory decision-making in disaster risk-sensitive urban development

Assessing the state of the art in community engagement for participatory decision-making in disaster risk-sensitive urban development

Domestication of international norms for sustainable resource governance: Elite capture in Peru

Rethinking Indigenous Politics: The Unnoticed Struggle for Self‐Determination in Peru

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