ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses participation in community work and more specifically participation in relation to neighbourhood regeneration programmes as a path towards inclusion through examples taken from a comparative study of neighbourhood regeneration schemes in England and Denmark. It outlines how neighbourhood regeneration is a product of a new localism and attempts to modernize welfare governance, and how the rationale of the regeneration efforts, when seen from a critical perspective. Then the chapter explains how the neighbourhood regeneration policies in both countries are committed to the idea of bottom up governance; the limits to this ideal in the two cases are discussed. It looks more closely at the capacities deemed necessary, and thus to be developed, in order to be an active and included subject, through the example of dilemmas pertaining to the engagement of ethnic minorities in the regeneration process. Finally it concludes how community associations become a double-edged sword in the governance of urban regeneration.
