ABSTRACT
This chapter examines that community participation (CP) is nowadays a key global discourse that is part and parcel of global governance. It aims to help assess the emancipatory and critical narratives of global discourses on the basis of locally gathered empirical data through conceptual and methodological proposals. The chapter examines the issue with a key but vastly under-studied discourse of contemporary global governance, namely that of CP. It views that active global discourses contribute to reordering human societies along socio-economic and political rights hence contributing to the emancipation of individuals and communities. The chapter explores the range of critical narratives such as dependency, governmentality, and hegemony see global governance discourses as fostering hidden forms of social control and strengthening pre-existing power structures at various levels of society. Global discourses can indeed cause power positions, authority, and influence to be closely shared by a nexus of domestic and non-domestic actors.
