We give more conceptual flesh and bones to the interconnections between social structures and individual agency by … processes. The case-study points to: (i) the importance of tracing capability deprivations back to weak political agency, (ii …

assumptions about the nature of human agency. Purposive individual action is seen as instrumentally desirable as well as … potentially radical and transformatory. Through participation in collective resource management it is claimed that people can re … structuration, governmentality and gendered empowerment to explore understandings of how individual human agency shapes and is …

In this paper I aim to improve the theory and practice of participation in local, grassroots, or micro …-development initiatives. First, I classify weaker and stronger types of participation and, in relation to these accounts, I propose and … explain an ideal of deliberative participation derived from the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. Second, in …

-being in the context of the family. I focus on Sen's distinction between well-being and agency, and argue that from the … perspective of women's movements and related social movements, the role of agency has so far been unduly neglected in social …

. Findings Participation is problematized based on the assumption that participatory agency risks jeopardizing the protection of …Purpose The present study aims to contribute to the understanding of digital participation in heritage collections as a … problematizations of insufficient participatory agency were analyzed in detail using a method inspired by Carol Bacchi's approach “what …