1. Towards participation as transformation : critical themes and challenges / Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan
2. Towards participatory governance : assessing transformative possibilities / John Gaventa
3. Rules of thumb for participatory change agents / Bill Cooke
4. Relocating participation within a radical politics of development : critical modernism and citizenship / Giles Mohan and Sam Hickey
5. Spaces for transformation? : reflections on issues of power and difference in participation in development / Andrea Cornwall
6. Towards a repoliticization of participatory development : political capabilities and spaces of empowerment / Glyn Williams
7. Participation, resistance and problems with the 'local' in Peru : towards a new political contract? / Susan Vincent
8. 'transformative' unfolding of 'tyrannical' participation : the corvee tradition and ongoing local politics in Western Nepal / Katsuhiko Masaki
9. Morality, citizenship and participatory development in an indigenous development association : the case of GPSDO and the Sebat Bet Gurage of Ethiopia / Leroi Henry
10. Relocating participation within a radical politics of development : insights from political action and practice / Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan
11. Securing voice and transforming practice in local government : the role of federating in grassroots development / Diana Mitlin
12. Participatory municipal development plans in Brazil : divergent partners constructing common futures / Glauco Regis Florisbelo and Irene Guijt
13. Confrontations with power : moving beyond 'the tyranny of safety' in participation / Ute Kelly
14. Failing forward : going beyond PRA and imposed forms of participation / Mark Waddington and Giles Mohan
15. Participation in poverty reduction strategies : democracy strengthened or democracy underminded? / David Brown
16. Beyond the technical fix? : participation in donor approaches to rights-based development / Jeremy Holland, Mary Ann Brocklesby and Charles Abugre
17. social embeddedness of agency and decision-making / Frances Cleaver
18. Theorizing participation and institutional change : ethnography and political economy / Anthony Bebbington.
