Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism

This book carefully examines the constraints and possibilities for participatory governance under capitalism. Bridging critical urban studies and democratic theory, it will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of democratic innovations, political economy, and urban planning.

Markus Holdo is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden, where he teaches and does research on how citizens accomplish social change.

1. Participation and Power Relations: Can Democracy be Renegotiated? 2. The Boundaries of Participation 3. Is Participation Co-optation? 4. Ethics and Deliberative Capital 5. Power as Leverage 6. A Theory of Renegotiation