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¿Y si dejamos de ser ciudadanos?

Manifiesto por la desocupación del orden – Por Santiago López Petit: El (buen) ciudadano ya no es sólo el que es cívico y vota, sino el que está dispuesto a hacer de su vida una continua inversión capitalista en el pleno sentido de la palabra. “Tener una vida” significa invertir dinero, esfuerzo y tiempo, en […]

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Pode o Estado comportar-se de outra forma?

Por Karl Marx: (…) O Estado jamais encontrará no “Estado e na organização da sociedade” o fundamento dos males sociais, como o “prussiano” exige do seu rei. Onde há partidos políticos, cada um encontra o fundamento de qualquer mal no fato de que não ele, mas o seu partido adversário, acha-se ao leme do Estado. […]

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O clientelismo e o exercicio do poder no Brasil

Por Paulo M. d’Avila Filho: “A única possibilidade de eliminação das trocas políticas assimétrico-clientelistas de um contexto social qualquer é na imaginação de uma ordem social que elevasse ao limite a máxima próxima da fabulação rousseauniana – na qual a vontade geral ou a vontade do demos e a autoridade política são uma e mesma […]

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Paradigms Of Propertied Citizenship

Transnational Techniques of Analysis – By Ananya Roy: [Abstract] The American paradigm of propertied citizenship has far-reaching consequences for the propertyless, as in the brutal criminalization of the homeless. Activist groups, such as the anarchist squatter organization Homes Not Jails, have sought to challenge this paradigm through innovative techniques of property takeovers, invocations of American […]

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L’ « économie réelle », c’est le capitalisme ! Au-delà de l’anticapitalisme tronqué de la gauche et du mouvement « Occupy Wall Street »

Par K.B.: « Croissance de l’économie réelle ! », telle est depuis trente ans la position de l’altercapitalisme de gauche sur tous les continents. Pas besoin d’aller très loin, en France, les décombres du mouvement altermondialiste restent ainsi plongés dans une immense nostalgie pour le capitalisme à papa des Trente Glorieuses avec ses entreprises nationalisées, ses services publics, son […]

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Care Work and the Commons

By Massimo de Angelis: It is becoming increasingly clear that the current economic, social and environmental crises are degrading the conditions of everyday life for a vast range of people in many parts of the world, and are even posing apocalyptic threats to our social and ecological reproduction. It is also clear that the global […]

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Why complexity improves the quality of city life

By Richard Sennett: I want to explore the concept of ‘quality of life’ in cities. My own view can be stated simply: the quality of life in a city is good when its inhabitants are capable of dealing with complexity. Conversely, the quality of life in cities is bad when its inhabitants are capable only […]

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Tensions of Citizenship

By Be Young and Shut up: In the much debated discourse over the consequences of economic globalization and the pervasive constructs of neoliberal governmentality that is seemingly creeping into every imaginable space of the world today, it appears that the contested frameworks of citizenship and the democratic principles it assumes have once again come into […]

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Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street

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 […]

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Non-representationist, Presentist Democracy

By Isabell Lorey: The young protest is most welcome. The many national and increasingly transnational protest movements of 2011 meet with much sympathy, especially when they are ‘non-violent’. At last there is a collective uprising against the political, economic and social developments in financial market capitalism, the untenable precarious living and working conditions in neoliberalism, […]

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Los Consejos Comunales: ¿Avance o retroceso para la democracia venezolana?

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, […]

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Deliberating Democracy: Scenes from a Brazilian Municipal Health Council

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: […]

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In the Streets or in the Institutions?

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 […]

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Client-ship and Citizenship in Latin America

By Lucy Taylor Read full article at Bulletin of Latin American Research (…) Despite such critiques, many people in many ways are becoming more like citizens. They are more certain of their value as individuals in relation to others who are richer and more powerful, and they are better aware of their rights (because the […]

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The catechism of the citizen: politics, law and religion in, after, with and against Rousseau

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 […]

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