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Participation has become very popular as a new strategy and approach in research, in policy, in private and public affairs. As an alternative to top-down approaches participation promises to empower people, to acknowledge and to build competence and (local) knowledge, to recognise and to be responsive to people’s different and differentiated needs and interests. The difference participation promises to make concerns above all an engagement with questions of difference.
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Masschelein, J., Quaghebeur, K. Participation Making a Difference? Critical Analysis of the Participatory Claims of Change, Reversal, and Empowerment. Interchange 37, 309–331 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10780-006-9006-8
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