Within development literature, recent decades have seen an unequivocal turn towards a call for a decentralised and more contextual and vernacular understanding of social, political and economic development. This paper brings together the development literature on the “participatory turn” with Henri Lefebvre’s work on social spaces and to move beyond the “” and “” of participation, to add the question of “” in exploring efforts to overcome social segregation and build sustainable integrated communities. It discusses two very distinct regional cases—Kerala (India) and Northern Ireland—as examples to argue that our analysis of the potential for transformative politics in society needs to include a study of its “participatory spaces”, and that this requirement transcends simple binaries like North/South, institutional/non-institutional, and top-down/bottom-up.

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了解物理空间在社会消除种族隔离中的作用：喀拉拉邦和北爱尔兰的空间教训


在发展文献中，近几十年来明确转向呼吁对社会、政治和经济发展进行分散化、更加切合实际和本土化的理解。本文将“参与转向”的发展文献与亨利·列斐伏尔关于社会空间的工作结合起来，超越参与的“”和“”，在探索克服社会隔离和建立可持续发展的努力时添加“”问题。综合社区。它讨论了两个截然不同的区域案例——喀拉拉邦（印度）和北爱尔兰——作为例子，论证我们对社会变革政治潜力的分析需要包括对其“参与空间”的研究，并且这一要求超越了简单的二元对立例如北/南、制度/非制度、自上而下/自下而上。