Introduction: The Crucial Role of Mediators in Relations between States and Citizens; Laurence Piper and Bettina von Lieres PART I: MEDIATING THE CITY 1. Mediation and the Contradictions of Representing the Urban Poor in South Africa: The Case of Sanco Leaders in Imizamo Yethu in Cape Town, South Africa 2. Citizen Power or State Weakness? The Enduring History of Collective Action in a Hyderabadi Bazaar; Shylashri shankar 3. The Politics of Mediation in Fragile Democracies: Building New Social Contracts Through, and for, Democratic Citizenship in Angola; Bettina von Lieres 4. 'Parallel Power' In Rio de Janeiro: Coercive Mediators and the Fragmentation of Citizenship in the Favela; Joanna wheeler PART II: MEDIATING THE NATIONAL 5. Challenging the Gatekeepers: Disability Rights Advocacy and the Struggle for Self-Representation within Lebanon's Postwar Sectarian Democracy; Paul Kingston 6. Mediation in India's Policy Spaces; Deepta Chopra 7. Mediating Active Citizenship and Social Mobility in Working Class Schools: The Case of Equal Education in Khayelitsha, Cape Town; Brahm Fleisch and Steven Robins 8. Mobilising for Democracy: Civil Society Mediation and Access to Policy in India; Ranjita Moha 9. Mediation at the Grassroots: Claiming Rights by Empowering Citizens in Bangladesh; Lopita Huq and Simeen Mahmud PART III: MEDIATING THE POST-NATIONAL 10: Mediation as Diplomacy: Dynamics of Governance and Representation in Brazilian Indigenous Societies; Alex Shankland 11. Achieving First Nation Self-Government In Yukon, Canada: The Mediating Role of the Council for Yukon Indians (cyi), 1975-1995*; Roberta Rice 12. Transnationalisation as Mediation: Uyghur's Rights-Based Mobilisation Outside China; Laura Trajber Waisbich