By Ryan Centner: [Abstract] Techniques of absence describe some of the potentially anti-deliberative practices that haunt recently widespread participation-based governance schemes. Techniques of absence remove certain kinds of people – on a spatialised basis – from crucial ‘democratic’ conversations. To illustrate these, I use ethnographic accounts from the implementation of a citywide participatory budgeting programme in three neighbourhoods across Buenos Aires, [...]
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“A World Class City of Your Own!”: Civic Governmentality in Chennai, India
May 11, 2012
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By Rowan Ellis [EXCERPTS] Specifically I focus on the practices of public consultation in Chennai, India and highlight the discursive function of the “world-class city” as it articulates and legitimates emerging paradigms in urban development. (…) The suggestion put forth by Birkinshaw and Harris (2009, 4) is that “the world-class city is an urban imaginary that further manufactures and normalizes [...]
Read more The populist dance of Participatory Budgeting numbers in Porto Alegre
May 4, 2012
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By Sérgio Baierle: Every year is the same civic governmentality routine. The local government begins the Participatory Budgeting cycle with a fireworks show. The real content of participation doesn’t matter. The show is the government. The measure of success for Participatory Budgeting (PB), as stated in the multi-year plan, is solely the number of participants in the assemblies. In [...]
Read more A miséria participativa e a participação miserável
March 26, 2012
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Crítica do orçamento participativo – Pelo Grupo Fim da Linha: Em Porto Alegre, o assim chamado Orçamento Participativo (OP) ocupa o centro de debates, brigas e xingamentos, já virou ponto de parada turística de excursões de europeus, e foi o principal motivo da escolha de Porto Alegre como sede do Forum Social Mundial. O OP, [...]
Read more Theses on the New European Fascism
October 28, 2011
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An anticipatory paper of Paolo Virno: [excerpts] 1. At the turn of the century, European fascism is the twin brother, which is to say the terrifying “double,” of the most radical instances of freedom and community that arise in the crisis of the labor-based society. It is the malignant caricature of what men and women [...]
Read more Que reste-t-il de l’expérience pionnière de Porto Alegre ?
September 28, 2011
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Par Simon Langelier (pour Le Monde Diplomatique): Emblématique du potentiel démocratique des collectivités locales, le budget participatif de Porto Alegre a ouvert la voie à des expériences sociales et politiques jusque-là inédites dans le monde. S’il a montré qu’une autre répartition des pouvoirs entre citoyens et institutions était viable, il doit désormais affronter le risque [...]
Read more Unelected Oligarchy:
August 16, 2011
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Corporate and Financial Dominance in Britain’s Democracy By David Beetham ( Democratic Audit): [“What we call democracy is in fact a compromise between the power of the vote and the power of business, with government negotiating the interface between the two.”] – This democratic audit of the UK takes place in the aftermath of the [...]
Read more Porto Alegre néolibéral : décapitation social-capitaliste des leaders communautaires et limites du New Public Management
February 16, 2011
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Pour Sergio Baierle: “Le Budget Participatif existe encore, on ne peut le nier, mais en tant que parodie. Ses vertus passées lui confèrent une aura, visible dans l’attachement des délégués et conseillers au dispositif. Mais il est manipulé par la municipalité, dans une stratégie mêlant le glamour de la philanthropie et un froid calcul politique. [...]
Read more Missing Biopolitics: Governance Vs. Governmentality in the Management of the Neighborhood Movement in Madrid
November 4, 2010
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By Álvaro Sevilla Buitrago, 1. Introduction: Up to now, the term “governance” has been widely recognized and used to describe the new exercise of political authority in a context of interaction between political, economical and social actors, emphasizing the legitimation of policies through the achievement of “consensus by participation”. In the field of town planning, it [...]
Read more Les Nostalgiques de la Cité Grecque
September 1, 2010
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Par Jacques Guigou, 1 – L’impossible réactivation de la politique comme sphère séparée: Une méprise traverse cette proposition. Alors que la visée se veut une « alternative à la barbarie techno-capitaliste » à travers « l’auto-institution de sociétés autonomes », l’essentiel de l’argumentation repose sur la nécessité d’instaurer (ou de réinstaurer) une sphère particulière de la politique dans la vie collective [...]
Read more Immunitarian Democracy
March 29, 2010
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By Roberto Esposito 1. Does “community” refer to democracy? If not, could it or is it too deeply embedded in the conceptual lexicon of the Romantic, authoritarian and racist Right? This is the question, one already asked by American neo-communitarianism, that is emerging again in Europe at the precise moment when, some, especially in France [...]
Read more Environment-Brazil: Red Card for Porto Alegre?
July 20, 2009
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From IPS News, By Clarinha Glock* – IPS/IFEJ: PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Jul 18 (IPS) – The southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, a pioneer in participatory budgets and environmental policies, and habitual host of the enormous World Social Forum, has returned to the international stage. Chosen as one of the 12 sites for the [...]
Read more The cat, the mouse, culture and the economy
July 8, 2009
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By Anselm Jappe: One of Grimm’s Fairy Tales is called “The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership”. A cat convinces a mouse that she wants to be her friend, and they live together and in anticipation of the oncoming winter they buy a pot of fat and hide it in a church. On the pretext [...]
Read moreContours of the Neoliberal City: fragmentation, frontier geographies, and the new circularity
May 23, 2009
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By Nasser Abourahme “The slum in and of itself creates a different kind of governmentality; AlSayyad and Roy point out that the apparently unregulated practices of squatting are in fact a distinct form of regulation, “a set of tactics that recreate informality as governmentality” [2006: 8]. This informality operates through the constant negotiability of value [...]
Read more Civic Governmentality: The Politics of Inclusion in Beirut and Mumbai
February 11, 2009
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By Ananya Roy This article is concerned with the politics of inclusion. It analyzes the institutionalization of participatory citizenship as the formation of regimes of “civic governmentality”. Through the study of key civil society organizations such as SPARC and Hezbollah, it studies three dimensions of civic governmentality: an infrastructure of populist mediation; technologies of governing [...]
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