2012
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Ernesto Ganuza et al., « Las paradojas de la participación: conflictos entre saberes en los nuevos dispositivos participativos », HAL-SHS : sciences politiques, ID : 10670/1.6ttgh8
The emergence of new participatory mechanisms, such as participatory budgeting, in towns and cities in recent years, has given rise to a confl ict between the old protagonists of local participation and the new citizens invited to participate. These mechanisms offer a logic of collective action different to what has been the usual fare in the cities - one that is based on proposal rather than demand. As a result, it requires urban social movements to transform their own dynamics in order to make room for a new political subject (the citizenry and the non-organised participant) and to act upon a stage where deliberative dynamics now apply. The present article aims to analyse this confl ict in two cities that set up participatory budgeting: Córdoba and Paris. The associations in the cities took up a position against the new participatory mechanism and demanded a bigger role in the political arena. The article concludes with refl ections on the consequences this confl ict could have for contemporary political theory.