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¶ … democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics (Appadurai) uses the demonstration of an Alliance to explain how deep democracy, democracy without borders, enables the poor to unite, or federate, and learn to solve their own problems and meet their own needs. The Alliance is made up of poor families who work together on a global basis, provide criticism of member communities for learning and exchanging, and equip the partnerships with more powerful persons and organizations to form a mutually sustainable cycle of processes. By doing so, they learn how to move themselves out of poverty and work for poverty reduction in their own communities.
The author makes the case clear with explanation of the living conditions of the poor as well as strategies the Alliance uses to teach their own members techniques to meet their own need, such as housing, toilets, and shared resources. Once members learn to meet their own needs, they help member partnerships...
These processes are repeated in communities on a global basis, not just in their own communities or countries.
The content of the article is important for practitioners and researchers to study strategies for poverty reduction. The author studied the strategies of the Alliance for a number of years, including the living conditions, the governmentality, and strategies used to teach each others and support other communities on a global basis as compared to other like organizations. The strategies used could help other organizations help poor in more ways by teaching some of the same strategies. By doing further research on the Alliance as well as like organizations, comparisons can be made to enable new strategies in helping people learn to help themselves.
The author's main ideas bring out valuable points. The teaching strategy of deep democracy enables communities to…
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Appadurai, A. "Deep democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics." Environment and Urbanization, 13(23).doi:10.1177/0956247800101300203 (2001): 23-43.
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