Publications, Videos and Other Initiatives

Please find below recent publications, videos, and initiatives by CORD members and some of our friends, organized thematically. We have endeavoured to ensure links are open access, but some restrictions do persist.

Activists, Institutions and Change

Participatory mechanisms and inequality reduction: searching for plausible relations

By Vera Schattan Ruas Pereira Coelho and Laura Waisbich

Gendered Subjects, Gendered Citizens

By Ranjita Mohanty

The limits of participatory democracy and the rise of the informal politics of mediated representation in South Africa

By Laurence Piper and Bettina von Lieres

Mobilizing for democracy: citizen engagement and the politics of public participation

By Vera Schattan P. Coelho And Bettina von Lieres

Constitutionlism in Rough Seas: Balancing Religious Accommodation and Human Rights in, through, and despite, the Law

By Shylashri Shankar

Mobilising the State? Social Mobilisation and State Interaction in India, Brazil and South Africa

By Ranjita Mohanty, Lisa Thompson and Vera Schattan Pereira Coelho

Spaces for Change? The Politics of Participation in New Democratic Arenas

By Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan Pereira Coelho

NGOs, ‘Bushmen’ and Double Vision: The # Khomani San Land Claim and the Cultural Politics of ‘Community’ and ‘Development’ in the Kalahari

By Steven Robins

Agents of Change? Reflecting on the Impact of Social Movements in Post-Apartheid South Africa

By Fiona Anciano

Clientelism as Civil Society? Unpacking the Relationship between Clientelism and Democracy at the Local Level in South Africa

By Fiona Anciano

Party over outsiders, centre over branch: how ANC dominance works at the community level in South Africa

By Laurence Piper and Fiona Anciano

Deepening Democracy: A Farm Workers’ Movement in the Western Cape

By Fiona Anciano

Marginalization and Social Service Provision

The 2011 Toilet Wars in South Africa: Justice and Transition between the Exceptional and the Everyday after Apartheid

By Steven Robins

Evaluating the impact of contracting out basic health care services in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil

By Jane Greve and Vera Schattan Pereira Coelho

What did we learn about citizen involvement in the health policy process: lessons from Brazil

By Vera Schattan Pereira Coelho

Battling Corruption: Has NREGA Reached India’s Rural Poor?

By Shylashri Shankar and Raghav Gaiha

Scaling Justice: India’s Supreme Court, Social Rights, and Civil Liberties

By Shylashri Shankar

Knowledge, Technology and Democracy

Framing a Situated and Inclusive Open Science: Emerging Lessons from the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network

By Rebecca Hillyer, Alejandro Posada , Denisse Albornoz , Leslie Chan and Angela Okune

Foot Soldiers of Global Health: Teaching and Preaching AIDS Science and Modern Medicine on the Frontline

By Steven Robbins

Translating complex realities through technologies: lessons about participatory accountability from South Africa

By Felix Bivens, Gill Black, Andrew Hartnack, Miriam Waltz and Joanna Wheeler

Urban Violence

Pervasive but not politicised: Everyday violence, local rule and party popularity in a South African Township

By Laurence Piper and Joanna Wheeler

Humanitarian aid beyond “bare survival”: Social movement responses to xenophobic violence in South Africa

By Steven Robbins

Agency and Citizenship in a Context of Gender-Based Violence

By Thea Shahrokh and Joanna Wheeler

What we live with everyday is not right

By Gill Black, Nava Derakhshani, Rory Liedeman, Joanna Wheeler and members of the Delft Safety Group

Videos

A TED Talk by CORD member Joanna Wheeler

A collection of videos created by participants who attended our recent workshop at Bellagio

Soeraya’s story

Jacqui’s story

Manelisi’s story

A collective film

Newspaper articles

Shylashri writes a monthly essay on food, and occasional essays on crime fiction and politics for OPEN magazine

By Shylashri Shankar

From #ScienceMustFall to #ScienceMustOpen: The need to support diverse forms of knowledge in science

By Becky Hillyer

Open Science and Development : The Importance of Cross-Disciplinary Learning

By Becky Hillyer

Uncovering the Challenges of Open Science in Development

By Becky Hillyer

CORD member initiatives

Catalysing Open and Collaborative Science for Development Opportunities in the Global South

Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network

Transformative Storytelling for Social Change

Transformative Story