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Journal Article
Organizing the Peasants: Participation, Organization and the Politics of Development in a Mexican Government Program
2002
Overview
This article discusses some problems with participatory approaches in development thinking. It is argued that external interventions are always embedded within wider fields of power (force fields) and that discourses of \"participation\" and \"grassroots initiatives\" cannot change these established power relations. A study is presented of a Mexican government program that used a \"bottom-up participatory approach\" in order to stimulate ejidos to formulate their own internal ejido rules. It is shown that this program—in which \"local organizing capacities\" were said to be central elements—did not change the existing force field and only created more room for officials and intermediaries in their negotiations with peasants. /// Cet article traite des problèmes rencontrés par l'approche participative dans la planification du développement. L'auteure soutient que les interventions exogènes sont toujours encastrées dans des champs de pouvoir plus englobants (des champs de force) et que les discours de \"participation\" et d'\"initiatives populaires\" ne peuvent changer les relations de pouvoir en place. On présente l'étude d'un programme du gouvernement mexicain qui a utilisé \"l'approche participative de bas en haut\" dans le but de stimuler les ejidos à formuler leurs propres règles. On démontre que ce programme — dans lequel les \"capacités organisationnelles locales\" étaient censées être les éléments principaux — n'ont pas changé le champ de force existant et n'ont fait que créer plus d'espace pour les agents officiels et intermédiaires dans leurs négociations avec les paysans.
