John Gaventa
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Political Science Philosophy
John Gaventa's Degrees
- PhD Political Science University of Sussex
- Masters Political Science University of Sussex
- Bachelors Politics University of Sussex
Why Is John Gaventa Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Gaventa is currently the director of research at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, where he has been a Fellow since 1996. From 2011 to 2014, he served as the director of the Coady International Institute and vice-president of International Development at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
John Gaventa's Published Works
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Published Works
- Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. (1992) (3638)
- We make the road by walking : conversations on education and social change (1992) (964)
- Finding the Spaces for Change: A Power Analysis (2006) (876)
- From Users and Choosers to Makers and Shapers: Repositioning Participation in Social Policy * (2000) (521)
- Towards Participatory Local Governance: Assessing the Transformative Possibilities. (2003) (375)
- Power and powerlessness : quiescence and rebellion in an Appalachian valley (1981) (350)
- Power and Knowledge (2008) (344)
- Bringing citizen voice and client focus into service delivery (2001) (342)
- Who Counts Reality? Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation: A Literature Review (1998) (304)
- So What Difference Does it Make? Mapping the Outcomes of Citizen Engagement (2010) (289)
- The Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives (2013) (254)
- Exploring Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (2002) (240)
- Mapping the Outcomes of Citizen Engagement (2012) (224)
- Global citizen action (2001) (217)
- Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley. (1981) (216)
- Triumph, deficit or contestation? : deepening the 'deepening democracy' debate (2006) (189)
- Learning from change : issues and experiences in participatory monitoring and evaluation (2000) (188)
- Bridging the gap: citizenship, participation and accountability (2001) (157)
- Challenging the Boundaries of the Possible: Participation, Knowledge and Power (2006) (152)
- Concepts of citizenship: a review (2002) (141)
- Power, knowledge and political spaces in the framing of poverty policy (2001) (140)
- Shifting Power? Assessing the Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives (2011) (136)
- Introduction : Exploring Citizenship , Participation and Accountability (2006) (97)
- Strengthening participatory approaches to local governance: Learning the lessons from abroad (2004) (94)
- Review of Impact and Effectiveness of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives: Synthesis Report. (2010) (92)
- Representation, Community Leadership and Participation: Citizen Involvement in Neighbourhood Renewal and Local Governance Prepared for the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit Office of Deputy Prime Minister (2004) (92)
- Participatory monitoring and evaluation: learning from change (1998) (91)
- Researching for Democ & Democratizing Research (1997) (84)
- Towards Participatory Local Governance: Six Propositions for Discussion (2003) (78)
- Unpacking policy : knowledge, actors, and spaces in poverty reduction in Uganda and Nigeria (2004) (74)
- Citizen action and national policy reform : making change happen (2010) (72)
- Power And Powerlessness (1980) (67)
- Mainstreaming participation in development (2000) (67)
- 9. Toward a Knowledge Democracy: Viewpoints on Participatory Research in North America (1991) (58)
- Globalizing Citizens: New Dynamics Of Inclusion And Exclusion (2011) (56)
- Scaling up: Participatory monitoring and evaluation of a federal empowerment program (1998) (52)
- Participatory Research in North America; A Perspective on Participatory Research in Latin America; Participatory Research in Southern Europe. (1988) (45)
- Blurring the Boundaries: Citizen Action Across States and Societies (2011) (40)
- Research for social justice : Some north-south convergences (1996) (38)
- Poverty, Participation and Social Exclusion in North and South (1998) (37)
- Communities in economic crisis : Appalachia and the South (1990) (34)
- Introduction: making change happen – citizen action and national policy reform (2010) (33)
- Participation in Governance (2005) (30)
- Power and powerlessness in an Appalachian Valley – revisited (2019) (27)
- Learning to change by learning from change: going to scale with participatory monitoring and evaluation. (2000) (26)
- Inequality, Power and Participation – Revisiting the Links (2016) (26)
- Methodological issues in participatory monitoring and evaluation. (2000) (24)
- A Citizens' Research Project in Appalachia, U.S.A. (1981) (21)
- Spanning Citizenship Spaces Through Transnational Coalitions: The Case of the Global Campaign for Education (2009) (19)
- Introduction: Interrogating Engaged Excellence in Research (2016) (19)
- Growing from the grassroots: building participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation methods in PARC. (2000) (18)
- Citizen-Led Innovation for a New Economy (2015) (18)
- Case control study of thermal environment preceding haemorrhagic shock encephalopathy syndrome (1999) (18)
- Seeking local indicators: participatory stakeholder evaluation of farmer-to-farmer projects, Mexico. (2000) (18)
- Learning global citizenship? (2009) (17)
- Exploring visions: self-monitoring and evaluation processes within the Nepal-UK Community Forestry Project. (2000) (15)
- Capital consumption: The transition to sustainable consumption and production in London (2010) (14)
- International Networking for Women's Human Rights By Charlotte Bunch With Peggy Antrobus, Samantha Frost and Niamh Reilly (2001) (13)
- Citizen engagements in a globalizing world (2010) (13)
- Co-constructing Democratic Knowledge for Social Justice: Lessons from an International Research Collaboration (2014) (12)
- Constructing transnational action research networks (2010) (12)
- Challenging the Asymmetries of Power: A Review of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Contribution (2016) (12)
- Putting Citizens at the Centre: Linking States and Societies for Responsive Governance. A policy-maker’s guide to the researchof the Development Research Centre onCitizenship, Participation and Accountability. (2010) (11)
- Participatory Education and Grassroots Development: The Case of Rural Appalachia (2003) (11)
- 11 Power and Knowledge (2008) (10)
- Concepts Of Citizenship (2002) (9)
- Building Responsive States: Citizen Action and National Policy Change (2008) (9)
- ‘Seeing Like a Citizen’: Re-claiming Citizenship in a Neoliberal World1 (2020) (9)
- Constructing Transnational Action Research Networks: Observations and Reflections from the Case of the Citizenship DRC. IDS Working Paper 302 (2008) (8)
- States, Societies, and Sociologists: Democratizing Knowledge from above and below. (2009) (8)
- Can Participation ‘fix’ Inequality? Unpacking the Relationship Between the Economic and Political Citizenship (2016) (8)
- Laying the foundation: capacity building for participatory monitoring and evaluation. (2000) (7)
- Getting the right end of the stick: participatory monitoring and evaluation in an organizational context. (2000) (7)
- Conceptual tools for tracking change: emerging issues and challenges. (2000) (7)
- Applying power analysis: using the ‘powercube’ to explore forms, levels and spaces (2019) (7)
- Strengthening citizen participation and democratization in the Philippines: ELF's impact evaluation. (2000) (7)
- The rise of rights: rights-based approaches to international development (2003) (7)
- Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South (1990) (7)
- Communities In Economic Crisis (1990) (7)
- Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters (2018) (6)
- Power and Empowerment: A Radical Theory of Participatory Democracy . By Peter Bachrach and Aryeh Botwinick. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. 211p. $44.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. (1993) (5)
- Power and Participation (2010) (5)
- Navigating Civic Space in a Time of Covid: Synthesis Report (2021) (5)
- Demanding Power: Do Protests Empower Citizens to Hold Governments Accountable over Energy? (2021) (4)
- Civil Society and Power (2011) (4)
- Democratising Economic Power: The Potential for Meaningful Participation in Economic Governance and Decision-Making (2020) (4)
- Spanning citizenship spaces through transnational coalitions: the Global Campaign for Education. (2010) (4)
- Monitoring and evaluating local development through community participation: the experience of the Association of Indigenous Cabildos of Northern Cauca, Colombia. (2000) (4)
- Citizen Action and National Policy: Making Change Happen (2010) (4)
- Against the Odds: Action for Empowerment and Accountability in Challenging Contexts (2022) (4)
- Linking the prepositions: using power analysis to inform strategies for social action (2021) (3)
- How Do Donor-led Empowerment and Accountability Activities Take Scale into Account? Evidence from DFID Programmes in Contexts of Fragility, Conflict and Violence (2020) (3)
- Spanning Citizenship Spaces ThroughTransnational Coalitions: The Caseof the Global Campaign for Education. IDS Working Paper No. 327. (2009) (3)
- Empowerment and Accountability in Difficult Settings: What Are We Learning? (2019) (3)
- The Power of Place and the Place of Power (2018) (3)
- Foxfire reconsidered : a twenty-year experiment in progressive education (1991) (2)
- Engaged Excellence in Development Studies (2018) (2)
- Danger—Landmines! NGO-Government Collaboration in the Ottawa Process (2014) (2)
- Participation Makes A Difference (2011) (2)
- MORE SECURITY, LOWER COST A SMARTER APPROACH TO GAS INFRASTRUCTURE IN EUROPE (2016) (2)
- Prelims - Citizen-Led Innovation for a New Economy (2015) (1)
- National Coalitions and Global Campaigns: The International Children's Rights Movement (2014) (1)
- Handbook of Clinical Sociology.Edited by Howard M. Rebach and John G. Bruhn. Plenum Press, 1991. 410 pp. $55.00 (1992) (1)
- Building inclusivecitizenship and democracies. ID21 Focus, July 2007. (2007) (1)
- Participation in Economic Decision-Making: A Primer (2018) (1)
- Information, Location, and Legitimacy: The Changing Bases of Civil Society Involvement in International Economic Policy (2014) (1)
- 10. The Deindustrialization of the Textile South: A Case Study (2019) (1)
- Crossborder Organizing Around Alternatives to Free Trade: Lessons from the NAFTA/FTAA Experience (2014) (1)
- Opportunities and Constraints for Civil Society Participation in Multilateral Lending Operations: Lessons from Latin America (2014) (1)
- Energy Union governance and the European strategic vision for a climate neutral economy:how will they work together? (2018) (1)
- Making Impact Assessment More Participatory (2000) (1)
- Citizen Action for Accountability in Challenging Contexts: What have we learned? (2023) (0)
- PLANTING THE SEEDS OF A NEW ECONOMY: Learning from Citizen-Led Innovation (2015) (0)
- Prelims - Learning from Change (2000) (0)
- Making Space for Dialogue on Just Transitions in Africa’s Oil and Gas Producing Regions (2022) (0)
- Local to Global (2019) (0)
- Co-constructing Democratic Knowledge for Social Justice (2014) (0)
- Citizen action and national policy : making change from below (2010) (0)
- Introduction : Information , Knowledge and Power 1 (2017) (0)
- Democracy-Support: From Recession to Innovation (2009) (0)
- Research 1 Course (R1): Pre-online Transcript: The key distinctions between 'citizen-led' and 'researcher-led' approaches to research (2016) (0)
- WHAT GAS STRATEGY FOR A EUROPEAN ENERGY SYSTEM IN TRANSITION? INVESTMENT CHOICES UNDER UNCERTAINTY (2015) (0)
- NGOs: a new history of transnational civil society By Davies Thomas. London: Hurst and Company, 2013. Pp. ix+301. Paperback £22.00, ISBN 978-1-84904-310-6. (2015) (0)
- Research 1 Course (R1): Pre-online Transcript: The key distinctions between 'citizen-led' and 'researcher-led' approaches to research (2016) (0)
- Back Matter - Learning from Change (2000) (0)
- Issues and experiences in participatory monitoring and evaluation (2000) (0)
- Reversing the Flow: A New Democratic Conversation? (2009) (0)
- Squatting on the Global Highway: Community Exchanges for Urban Transformation (2014) (0)
- 33. Civil Society and Power (2011) (0)
- Nancy L. Rosenblum: Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 301.) (2017) (0)
- Engaged Excellence - Full issue (2016) (0)
- THE POLITICS OF CLIMATE ROADMAPS LESSONS FOR THE EU’S NEW LONG-TERM CLIMATE STRATEGY NICK MABEY AND JONATHAN GAVENTA (2018) (0)
- Working on ‘both sides of the equation’: the role of NGOs in strengthening champions of participation in India. (2008) (0)
- ‘Seeing Like a Citizen’: Re-claiming Citizenship in a Neoliberal World 1 (2020) (0)
- Claiming Citizenship: Building inclusive citizenship and democracies (2007) (0)
- Repertoires of Citizen Action in Hybrid Settings (2022) (0)
- 8. Towards a learning organization - making development agencies more participatory from the inside; The Scaling-up and Institutionalization of PRA: lessons and challenges; Conclusion (1998) (0)
- Learning from the Highlander experience: Contributions of the post-civil rights period (1994) (0)
- Poverty and Social Exclusion in North and South (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews (2009) (0)
- Communities in Economic Crisis: Appalachia and the South. (1993) (0)
- Blurringthe Boundaries: Citizen Action Across States and Societies. A Summary of Findings froma Decade of CollaborativeResearch on Citizen Engagement. (2011) (0)
- Excerpts from Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley (2020) (0)
- Land Ownership in Appalachian Kentucky (1982) (0)
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