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20 juin 2016
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9781783717972
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English
Poids de l'ouvrage
3 Mo
Can a political project exist outside of the power relations from which it is trying to emerge? In the twilight of Brazil’s twenty-one year military regime, a new union movement emerged in São Paulo’s industrial region, giving life to a new political party: the Workers’ Party. The electoral success enjoyed by the party enabled it to champion a whole raft of democratic reforms and Brazil is now celebrated as a laboratory for popular and participatory forms of government. However, through analysis of the trajectory of the Worker Party’s democratic experiment, the true challenge of embedding democracy inside existing state structures emerges. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, Victor Albert provides a critical analysis of citizen participation in Santo André, in the region of Greater São Paulo where the Workers’ Party was founded, holding a microscope to the power relations between political appointees, public officials and local community activists. Albert also reveals how different social actors think and feel about citizen participation away from formal assemblies, and how some participants engage in what is a tenuous, and at times mutually distrustful, tactical and strategic relationship with political patrons.List of Figures and TablesList of AbbreviationsSeries PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Democratisation, Reform and Participation in Brazil2. Rituals and Ritualisation3. Participatory Budgeting: Ritualisations of Petitioning and Power 4. Embedded Participatory Institutions: The Urban Development Council and the Housing Council5. Shared Practices, Contrasting Ideologies6. BackstageConclusion: Reimagining Participatory DemocracyNotesReferences Index
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Date de parution
20 juin 2016
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9781783717972
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English
Poids de l'ouvrage
3 Mo
The Lîmîts to Cîtîzen Power
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The Lîmîts to Cîtîzen Power Partîcîpatory Democracy and the Entanglements o the State
Vîctor Albert
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List of Figures and TablesList of AbbreviationsSeries PrefaceAcknowledgements
Contents
vî vîî vîîî îx
Introductîon 1 1 Democratîsatîon, Reorm and Partîcîpatîon în Brazîl 22 2 Rîtuals and Rîtualîsatîon 41 3 Partîcîpatory Budgetîng: Rîtualîsatîons o Petîtîonîng and Power 66 4 Embedded Partîcîpatory Instîtutîons: The Urban Development Councîl and the Housîng Councîl 85 5 Shared Practîces, Contrastîng Ideologîes 114 6 Backstage 143 Conclusîon: Reîmagînîng Partîcîpatory Democracy 167
NotesReferencesIndex
188 192 205
List of Figures and Tables
Figures 3.1 Partîcîpants makîng demands durîng the Parque Andreense assembly 3.2 Demands dîsplayed on a projector screen 3.3 Attendees vote or învestment prîorîtîes and regîonal representatîves usîng electronîc ballot machînes 4.1 Spatîal organîsatîon în the UDC 4.2 Spatîal organîsatîon în the HC
Tables 3.1 Bîennîal cycle o the partîcîpatory budget 4.1 General agenda îtems or the UDC 4.2 General agenda îtems or the HC
72 74
76 90 104
68 95 106
List of Abbreviations
AEIS Áreas de Especîal Interesse Socîal (Areas o Specîal Socîal Interest) ABC the munîcîpalîtîes o Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Caetano, a regîon o São Paulo CESA Centro Educacîonal de Santo André FNRU Fórum Nacîonal de Reorma Urbana (Natîonal Forum or Urban Reorm) HC Conselho Munîcîpal de Habîtação (Housîng Councîl) MBC Conselho Munîcîpal de Orçamento (Munîcîpal Budget Councîl) MDF Movîmento de Deesa do Favelado (Movement or the Deence o Shanty-Town Inhabîtants) MDDF Movîmento de Deesa dos Dîreîtos de Moradores em Favela (Movement or the Deence o Favela Inhabîtants’ Rîghts) MNRU Movîmento Nacîonal de Reorma Urbana (Movement or Urban Reorm) PB partîcîpatory budget PDS Partîdo Democrátîco Socîal (Democratîc Socîal Party) PFL Partîdo da Frente Lîberal (Lîberal Front Party) SEMASA Servîço Munîcîpal de Saneamento Ambîental de Santo André (Munîcîpal Urban Sanîtatîon Servîce o Santo André) SERVCOOP Cooperatîva Habîtacîonal dos Servîdores Públîcos de Santo André (Santo André Munîcîpal Publîc Servants’ Housîng Cooperatîve) UDC Conselho Munîcîpal de Polítîca Urbana (Urban Development Councîl) WMC Conselho Munîcîpal de Assîstêncîa Socîal (Welare Management Councîl) ZEIS Zonas Especîaîs de Interesse Socîal (Specîal Socîal Interest Zones)
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Acknowledgements
I am very grateul to a large number o people that made thîs book possîble. In Australîa, I must îrst o all recognîse the eorts o my dear rîend, Rowan Ireland. Rowan’s selless encouragement, support, and crîtîcal eedback belong to a kînd o scholarly collegîalîty that seems to be dîsappearîng rom the modern academy. I hope that some o ît has rubbed o on me. At La Trobe Unîversîty, I would lîke to thank Anthony Moran or hîs constructîve crîtîcîsm, practîcal advîce, generous spîrît and rîendshîp. Also at La Trobe were that coterîe o Latîn Amerîcanîsts, încludîng Barry Carr, Ralph Newmark, and the late Steve Nîblo, who helped to shape thîs work through years o eedback, debate and dîscussîons. Many thanks go to them and also to Chrîs Eîpper and Karl Smîth or theîr own împortant contrîbutîons to thîs project. Zuleîka Arashîro has been a great rîend and an împortant source o support and advîce over the years as we each have crîss-crossed each other’s countrîes. I I am îndebted to a large number o people în Australîa, the number îs even hîgher în Brazîl. The admînîstratîon în Santo André gave me access I would never have been aorded în Australîa. They were wîllîng and accessîble, orthrîght and accommodatîng. Wîthout theîr co-operatîon I never would have been able to wrîte thîs monograph. I was welcomed by the admînîstratîon în Santo André based on the understandîng, I belîeve, that ît îs împortant to have crîtîcal perspectîves on local polîtîcs. My hope îs that thîs book îs receîved în the spîrît în whîch I was receîved. I must partîcularly sîngle out Robson at SEMASA or hîs rîendshîp and help over the years. I am also, o course, orever în the debt o thoseandreense partîcîpants and socîal actîvîsts who gave o theîr tîme to a stranger, who took me în, drîed me when I arrîved soakîng rom a lash storm, ed me and trusted me lîke amîly. Perhaps the only way I can repay some o theîr hospîtalîty and good wîll îs to gîve a aîthul renderîng o what I experîenced and the story the data tell. I would also lîke to acknowledge Thaîsa de Andrade, Jeerson Maînardes and Robîson Chagas în Ponta Grossa-PR, or theîr help and support. Thîs manuscrîpt grew and took shape over a perîod when I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Dîgîtal Ethnography Research Centre, at RMIT Unîversîty. I would în partîcular lîke to thank Tanîa Lewîs or helpîng me
