John Williams

Project Description: Community Development Workers as advocate planners: deepening the subjective understanding and practice of democracy in post-apartheid South Africa.

John completed his research on Community Development Workers in Worcestor. Additional research in Khayelitsha and Mitchell’s Plain is underway in 2008.

Conferences and Publications

Williams, J. 2007. Deepening Democracy through community participation in post-apartheid South Africa? Paper presented at the International Conference on Deepening democracy in fragmented societies, 19 -21 September 2007, Cape Town, South Africa

Williams, J. 2007. Community Development and the importance of research: Presentation at the Meeting with Japanese Researchers in the Faculty of Dentistry, University of the Western Cape, Tygerberg Campus, Cape Town, 16 October 2007

Williams, John J (2008). Governance through community participation in post-apartheid South Africa. Participation and Governance (New Delhi,India)(1)1, 43-60.

Williams, John J (2007). Local Government as a form of public participation: some critical perspectives. Critical Dialogue, 3 (1), 16-23;

Williams, John J (2007). Social Change and Community Participation: Hospital Facilities Boards in the Western Cape of South Africa, pp 95-113. In Spaces for change? The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas, edited by Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schatten Coelho.

Williams, John J (2007). Health Facility Boards in the Western Cape, South Africa: the challenges of transitional governance PARTICIPATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY SERIES, (Research commissioned by the University of Sussex (UK) in partnership with the School of Government, University of the Western Cape).: A Policy Monograph: Bellville, South Africa: Centre for Southern African Studies, School of Government, University of the Western Cape, pp 25-68.