By Niamh Gaynor: [Excerpt] (…) [D]oes civic associational engagement at micro levels leave scope to engage laterally across associations and vertically with members and citizens thereby sustaining a vibrant, active public sphere? Is civic associational engagement within micro-policy fora “good” for democracy in a substantive sense? The answer to this has to be a qualified [...]
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De quoi l’indignation est-elle le nom ?
November 23, 2011
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Au cœur de la société capitaliste, une nécessaire rupture – Par Clément: Depuis plusieurs mois en Europe sur la place de la « Puerta del Sol » à Madrid comme aux Etats-Unis avec le mouvement « Occuper Wall Street », des dizaines de milliers de gens qualifiés d’ « indignés » descendent dans les rues, mais l’on s’indigne de quoi au juste ? [...]
Read more Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street
October 6, 2011
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By Judith Butler: In the last months there have been, time and again, mass demonstrations on the street, in the square, and though these are very often motivated by different political purposes, something similar happens: bodies congregate, they move and speak together, and they lay claim to a certain space as public space. Now, it [...]
Read more Los Consejos Comunales: ¿Avance o retroceso para la democracia venezolana?
July 12, 2011
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By Benjamin Goldfrank: [Resumen] El presente artículo aborda el debate en torno a los consejos comunales de Venezuela, un mecanismo de participación ciudadana promovido por el gobierno de Hugo Chávez con especial fuerza a partir de 2005. Luego de exponer brevemente su historia y principales características institucionales, describe la producción académica en torno al tema, [...]
Read more Deliberating Democracy: Scenes from a Brazilian Municipal Health Council
April 25, 2011
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By Andrea Cornwall: [excerpt] What this case suggests is that deliberative democratic theory might usefully pay closer attention to contention and contestation as attributes of a deliberative process that strengthen, rather than threaten, its democratic potential. Spaces of “empowered participatory governance” like the conselho are not just neutral management spaces, they are inherently political spaces: [...]
Read more The Centrality of the State in Neoliberal Times: Gramsci and beyond
March 27, 2011
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By Peter Mayo: One of the greatest myths being propagated in this contemporary neoliberal scenario is that the nation state is no longer the main force in this period characterized by the intensification of globalization. Deregulation was brought in by governments to expedite the process where various forms of provision, private and formerly public, were [...]
Read more Civil Society and State-Building in Latin America
March 23, 2011
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By Rebecca Abers and Margareth Keck: In this essay we will suggest that significant barriers to deepening democracy in much of Latin America include not just the weakness of civil society vis-à-vis the state, but also the weakness of the state itself vis-à-vis its public administrative, technical, and enforcement functions. This is not a recent [...]
Read more In the Streets or in the Institutions?
March 23, 2011
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By Jeffrey Rubin: Social movements in Brazil have experienced a unique trajectory: they have grown and flourished during a twenty-year period of discernible and highly uneven democratic deepening. As a result, Brazilian activists face ongoing and urgent questions about the location of politics. Since the mid-1980s, many grassroots activists have opted to move from “the [...]
Read more Civil society in Latin America: Participatory citizens or service providers?
March 22, 2011
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By Evelina Dagnino: (…) “The recognition of the heterogeneity of civil society is important not only in theoretical terms, as a field of conflict, but is also evident in empirical terms across the continent. From the paramilitary organisations of Colombia to market-oriented NGOs or entrepreneurial foundations in Brazil; from corporatist trade-unions in Argentina to indigenous [...]
Read more The catechism of the citizen: politics, law and religion in, after, with and against Rousseau
September 1, 2009
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By Simon Crhichley: “(…) is politics conceivable without religion? The answer is obviously affirmative as the evidence of various secular political theories testifies. But is politics practicable without religion? That is the question. And that is the question that Rousseau’s thinking of politics faces. Can politics become effective as a way of shaping, motivating and [...]
Read more Let them eat social capital: Socializing the market versus marketizing the social
July 27, 2009
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By Margaret Somers: “We have seen the enemy and it is us. No longer should we blame neoliberalism’s starvation of the public sector and its privatizing restructuring of the economy for escalating rates of poverty, skyrocketing inequality, or the constriction of democracy. No, it is the fault of your and my delinquency in our bowling [...]
Read more Inscribing Subjects to Citizenship: Petitions, Literacy Activism, and the Performativity of Signature in Rural Tamil India
July 13, 2009
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By Francis Cody “But for the women who had come to the office that day from Katrampatti, my sense is that they would only have been satisfied that they had performed the act of petitioning at grievance day if they had been able to see the collector and plead with him orally using generic conventions [...]
Read moreCapitalism and Social Rights
June 26, 2009
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By Ellen Meiksins Wood “In fact, we could just as easily say that the history of rights has been a contraction, not an expansion, of political rights — not an expansion from one set of rights to another but a contraction of political rights to exclude the social and the economic. Political rights have certainly [...]
Read more The Withering of Civil Society
August 25, 2008
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By Michael Hardt: (Social Text, No. 45 (Winter, 1995), pp. 27-44.) – Read it at http://makeworlds.org – “Claiming the decline of civil sociey, of course, does not mean that all the mechanisms of rule and organization which characterized civil society no longer exist or function. Similarly, recognizing a passage from disciplinary societies to societies of [...]
Read more The erosion of citizenship
August 25, 2008
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By Bryan S. Turner: (British Journal of Sociology Vol. No. 52 Issue No. 2 – June 2001, pp. 189–209) – Read it at Educating the Global Citizen – “The Marshallian paradigm of social citizenship has been eroded because the social and economic conditions that supported postwar British welfare consensus have been transformed by economic and [...]
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