| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 386 pages) |
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Interrogating the civil society agenda, reassessing uncivic political activism / Sonia E. Alvarez, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Agustín Laó-Montes, Jeffrey W. Rubin, and Millie Thayer -- Interrogating the civil society agenda, reflections on Brazil -- A century of councils: participatory budgeting and the long history of participation in Brazil / Gianpaolo Baiocchi -- Civil society in Brazil: from state autonomy to political interdependency / Leonardo Avritzer -- The making and unmaking of a new democratic space / Andrea Cornwall -- Uncivil subjects, uncivil women: civic participation, ambivalence, and political subjectivity among grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Benjamin Junge -- Mapping movement fields -- Mapping the field of Afro-Latin American politics: in and out of the civil society agenda / Agustín Laó-Montes -- Social movement demands in Argentina and the constitution of a "feminist people" / Graciela Di Marco -- Politics by other means: resistance to neoliberal biopolitics / Graciela Monteagudo -- The "gray zone" between movements and markets: Brazilian feminists and the international aid chain / Millie Thayer -- The nexus of civic and uncivic politics -- This is no longer a democracy ... Thoughts on the local referendums on mining on Peru's Northern frontier / Raphael Hoetmer -- From Afro-Colombians to Afro-descendants: the trajectory of black social movements in Colombia, 1990/2010 / Kiran Asher -- In the streets and in the institutions: movements-in-democracy and the rural women's movement in Rio Grande do Sul / Jeffrey W. Rubin -- Refounding the political: the struggle for provincialization in Santa Elena, Ecuador / Amalia Pallares -- Movements, regimes, and refoundations -- The counterpoint between contention and civic collective action in Venezuela's recent democracy / Margarita Lcentpez Maya and Luis E. Lander -- Brazil: back to the streets? / Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ana Claudia Teixeira -- Monuments of (de) colonization: violence, democracy, and gray zones in Bolivia after January 11, 2007 / Jose Antonio Lucero -- Beyond the civil society agenda. Participation and practices of governance, governability, and governmentality in Latin America / Sonia E. Alvarez -- Conclusion: Uncontained activism / Millie Thayer and Jeffrey W. Rubin |
| Summary |
Beyond Civil Society challenges current understandings of the politics of protest, activism, and participation by examining the ways in which social movements in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Latin America blur the boundaries between civil and uncivil activism and between activism carried out in state and the streets |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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Political participation -- Latin America
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Political activists -- Latin America
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Social movements -- Latin America
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Democracy -- Latin America
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Pressure groups -- Latin America
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Political culture -- Latin America
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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HISTORY / Latin America / General
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Democracy
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Political activists
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Political culture
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Political participation
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Pressure groups
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Social movements
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Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alvarez, Sonia E., 1956- editor.
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Rubin, Jeffrey W., editor.
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Thayer, Millie, editor.
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Baiocchi, Gianpaolo, 1971- editor.
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Laó-Montes, Agustín, editor.
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Escobar, Arturo, 1951- writer of the foreword
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| LC no. |
2017004586 |
| ISBN |
9780822373353 |
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0822373351 |
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