Year: 2006
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Many conflicts in development can be understood as struggles by the poor to hold the powerful to account.Contests over the rights and responsibilities of actors in development are increasing in intensity amid clashes between the promotion of a rights-based approach to development and market-based notions of access and entitlement to resources.How these conflicts are played out has enormous implications for efforts to tackle poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.Understanding how the poor claim their rights and demand accountability for the realisation of those rights becomes critical.This book contributes to such an understanding by exploring how poorer groups mobilise around rights to resources in a diversity of settings, employing a broad range of strategies to achieve accountability.It places accountability at the intersection between rights and resources, asking: what is the relationship between greater accountability and people's ability to realise their rights to resources?Struggles over key livelihood resources such as health, housing and labour, as well as natural resources such as water and oil, provide the backdrop to an enquiry into the ways in which poorer groups hold powerful state, corporate
Authors: Peter Newell, Joanna Wheeler
Language: English
Topic: Human Rights and Development
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2104210004