ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to assess the consolidation of new forms of innovative governance capacity and the associated changes in governmentality in the context of the rekindling of the governance-civil society articulation that is invariably associated with the rise of a neoliberal governmental rationality and the transformation of the technologies of government. The main objective of the chapter is to address and problematize political citizenship rights and entitlements and to tease out the contradictory Janus-faced character that these newly emerging forms of governing the urban might have in terms of their democratic legitimacy. It outlines the contours of Governance-beyond-the-State and addresses the thorny issues of the state/civil society relationship in the context of a predominantly market-driven and neoliberal political-economic societal framework. The chapter explains contradictory ways in which new arrangements of governance have created innovative institutions and empowered new actors, while disempowering others.
