European University Institute Library

Beyond civil society, activism, participation, and protest in Latin America, Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Agustín Laó-Montes, editors

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Beyond civil society

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Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Agustín Laó-Montes, editors

activism, participation, and protest in Latin America

The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century Latin America. They show that most contemporary political activism in the region relies upon both confrontational collective action and civic participation at different moments. Operating within fluid, dynamic, and heterogeneous fields of contestation, activists have not been contained by governments or conventional political categories, but rather have overflowed their boundaries, opening new democratic spaces or extending existing ones in the process. These essays offer fresh insight into how the politics of activism, participation, and protest are manifest in Latin America today while providing a new conceptual language and an interpretive framework for examining issues that are critical for the future of the region and beyond. --, Provided by publisher

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 López 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