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352. Envisioning a Future for Recognition: The Case of Black Women's Movements in Brazil.
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McCoy, Nicole
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BLACK women ,FEMININE identity ,SOCIAL movements ,POLITICAL doctrines ,DEMOCRACY - Abstract
The lack of the articulation of a coherent understanding of Afro-Brazilian identity has received relatively uncritical attention both within and outside of black women's movements in Brazil. The combination of the importation of American racial conceptions of blackness and the historical legacy of racial democracy in Brazil has resulted in a constructed black female identity that attempts to resolve ideological versus phenomenological conceptions of identity. But recognition movements such as black women's movements are often mobilized around a particular identity. In the case of Brazil, the construction of a black female identity presents challenges to recognition claims in that the identity put forward may or may not adequately represent the individuals who are marginalized. This paper seeks to put Fraser, Benhabib, Taylor, and Honneth into dialogue on the issues of recognition, identity, and status in order to explore a new theoretical framework that could accommodate, explain, or perhaps resolve the problems that black women's movements have encountered. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
353. Changing Brazil's State Racial Policy: Intersection of Social Movements, International Events, Media and Local Politics.
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Peria, Michelle
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RACE ,SOCIAL movements ,BRAZILIAN politics & government, 2003- ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
My research closely examines the shift in Brazil's state racial policy beginning in 2001. To do this, I look at events in Rio de Janiero's State Legislative Assembly as a case study. This allows me to highlight the combination of local, national and international processes that configure the development of affirmative action policy in Brazil. I am interested in uncovering the micro-mechanisms of power that operate in Rio de Janiero's local politics as I consider these to be not that different from what happens at the national or global level. Democratic regimes operate with a logic according to which indignation and resistance should be incorporated into the system. Time and again Black Movement activists and other SMOs and activists in Brazil have complied comprehensive policies and programs to address racial and social injustice -- including land and wealth redistribution -- only to have their work transformed by state institutions and actors into policies of quotas for black Brazilians in hiring and education. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
354. The Electoral Impact of Social Movements: Evidence from Brazil and the Effect of the Landless Worker's Movement.
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Donaghy, Maureen, Brown, David S., and Brown, J. Christopher
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SOCIAL movements , *ELECTIONS , *SOCIAL services , *INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) , *SOCIAL conditions in Brazil ,BRAZILIAN politics & government - Abstract
The article discusses the influence of social movements on electoral outcomes in Brazil, particularly with the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST). MST is a movement founded in the mid-1980s which aims to improve the lives of people experiencing inequality. In order to push structural change, MST engaged into land occupation and recognized the need to have political allies in order to have access to social programs and infrastructure.
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- 2008
355. Recognition vs. Redistribution: Social Movements and the Struggle for Inclusion in Brazil.
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Marsiaj, Juan P.
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SOCIAL movements , *DEMOCRATIZATION , *POLITICAL change , *GROUP identity - Abstract
Social movements have played a key role in the process of democratization in Brazil since the mid 1970s. The changing political opportunity structure engendered by this process allowed for new identities and demands to emerge in the public sphere. Social movements struggling for inclusion of a wide range of marginalized groups have based their demands on issues related to redistribution, as well as recognition of marginalized and stigmatized identities. Focusing on the activity and gains of the gay, lesbian and travesti movement in Brazil, but also including other important movements active in contemporary Brazil (women, Afro-Brazilian, and landless peasants) in the analysis, this paper will examine the extent to which a gap between recognition and redistributive struggles has emerged in the impact of these diverse social movements. It also seeks to explain why impressive gains have been secured in regard to the recognition of identities, while progress in relation to redistributive issues has been more limited, both within movements (e.g., lower class sexual minorities, poor women and Afro-Brazilians) and across movements (e.g., LGBT rights vs. land reform). ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
356. Can Brazil Rise Up From the Semi-Periphery? World System Agency Based and Conjunctural Considerations.
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Cohn, Samuel
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ECONOMIC conditions in Brazil ,GLOBALIZATION ,EXTERNAL debts ,FOREIGN investments ,SOCIAL movements - Abstract
The prospects for Brazil rising from the semi-periphery are bleak. This is due to both world systems considerations based on international indebtedness, penetration of foreign capital and fiscal crisis within the state - and agency considerations based on political and social factors within Brazil itself. The key to rising into the core is developing local proprietary technology which could created pro-Brazilian favorable terms of trade. Debt induced high interest rates are limiting economic growth and investment reducing local capital's ability to generate such technology. Increased foreign ownership of Brazilian companies is leading to a reduction of research and development actitivies. An alternative road to a locally controlled science would be development of basic science at the university level. Brazilian universities are hampered by low salaries, poor facilities, very low graduation rates, and unwieldy administrative structures that prevent universities from rewarding star researchers. These factors stem less from debt-induced fiscal crisis within the state and more of political considerations within Brazil that lead to the misallocation of scarce educational resources. Agency attempts to overcome these handicaps are having mixed results. The new anti-globalization social movements coming out of Porto Alegre are having impressive results in improving municipal governance - but face too many political obstacles to have a chance to produce a national Brazilian state willing to confront international capital. There are however positive developments in less glamorous areas. The economic wing of the Porto Alegre movement - the Economia Solidaria - is producing impressive increases in employment and reductions in poverty in Brazil - using an explicit nationalist anti-globalization strategy. Furthermore, routine social and economic policies such as support for small business are confronting for the first time disarticulation in Brazil and producing a more balanced distribution of economic incentives and government benefits. These developments by themselves will not propel Brazil into the core. However there is one conjunctural factor that could make a difference ..... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
357. Multi-Level Governance and Social Movements in Mercosur.
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Hochstetler, Kathryn
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FREE trade , *SOCIAL movements , *POLITICAL science - Abstract
In this paper, I argue that social movements respond to two dimensions of political opportunity in deciding when and how to seek political influence in multilevel governance. One dimension, the degree of access or openness, is already common in the literature on transnational social movements. A second dimension of political capacity - the ability to generate authoritative outcomes - is also important, but much less studied. Both activists and scholars can assess institutions in multi-level governance for their simultaneous placement on these two dimensions. I briefly review the four resulting quadrants and the kinds of strategies social movements are likely to choose in them, discussing trade institutions that might fit in each: strong and open, strong and closed, weak and open, and weak and closed. I use this framework to argue that the Mercosur free trade area fits best in the weak and closed quadrant, and thus it is not surprising that regional social movements have directed little time to this level of governance. I also briefly review the politics of GMOs in the Mercosur region, showing that the politics of GMOs in Brazil and Argentina have surprisingly different patterns of political opportunity for their national movements that have led to very different concrete results. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
358. Method and Agency Matter: Interactions between "experts" and "non-experts" in the production of "counter-hegemonic" knowledge.
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Esteves, Ana Margarida Fernandez
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MASS mobilization ,SOCIAL interaction ,CIVIL society ,SOCIAL policy - Abstract
This paper explores a question that has so far been under-explored in the study of civil society organizations: Which factors determine whether or not the interaction between "experts" working at NGOs and grassroots activists produces practices of knowledge construction that truly promote the moral, political and economic agency of popular groups with restricted access to "expert" knowledge? Such exploration is based on a literature review, complemented by an analysis of ethnographic data collected during the summer of 2006. The fieldwork data included in this paper is the result of a voluntary work experience at PACS - Instituto Politicas Alternativas para o Cone Sul, an NGO based in Rio de Janeiro. PACS is one of the most influential NGOs in the emergence and institutionalization of the Brazilian movement of Solidarity Socio-Economy. It had a fundamental role as the coordinator of the mobilization process that led to the creation, in 1996, of FCP-RJ - the Forum of Worker's Cooperatives of Rio de Janeiro. This forum was the first organized structure created by the movement in Brazil to debate policy issues affecting cooperatives, networks of microenterprises, microcredit and the informal economy. For reasons of practicality and focus, this paper will only use field data on "Casa da Confiança" ("The House of Trust"), a microcredit and training project that PACS developed with members of neighborhood-based associations, in the framework of FCP-RJ. This project is a typical example of production of practices of knowledge construction that empower popular groups with restricted access to "expert" knowledge. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
359. The Local in the Global: Rethinking Social Movements in the New Millennium.
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Voss, Kim and Williams, Michelle
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SOCIAL movements ,THEORY ,ACTIVISTS ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
In this article we discuss the failure of social movement theories to adequately understand and theorize the locally-based, grassroots social movements like the landless workers movement in Brazil , "livability movements" in third world cities, "peoples planning" in Kerala, India, and living wage movements in the US. These movements came to the attention of most social movement analysts only when the activists who participated in such local movements came together in the streets of Seattle or international forums like the World Social Forum at Porto Alegre. For social movement analysts, it is the transnational character of these forums and protests that have excited the most attention. The local and generative aspects of these movements have received much less consideration. We argue that the old theories of social movements do not help us understand the local and generative dynamics and processes of these new movements because they reflect a particular configuration of relations between the state, society, and the economy that emerged during the 20th century and have been superceded in the 21st century. We look at the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement and the Justice for Janitors Campaign in Los Angeles to illustrate the important terrain of civil society as well as the role of community organizing. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
360. Homosexual Liberation and the Brazilian Left: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach.
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de la Dehesa, Rafael
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HOMOSEXUALITY ,GENDER identity ,COUNTERCULTURE ,LIBERTY ,POLITICAL parties - Abstract
This piece draws on symbolic interactionism to explain why leftist parties in Brazil first broached debates on homosexual liberation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Electoral institutional changes and the emergence of a new generation of cadres changed left party militants' audience calculations. The emergence of a youth counterculture also expanded a discursive repertoire, permitting party militants to contest meanings historically attached to the body, sexuality, the political, and everyday life. The article seeks to extend symbolic interactionism's methodological tools and insights to areas undertheorized in the paradigm, establishing a dialogue with a literature on political parties and electoral institutions. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
361. Anti-Scientization Movements: A New Framework for Understanding Mobilization and Contestation.
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McCormick, Sabrina
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INFORMATION technology ,SOCIAL movements ,SCIENCE ,ECOLOGY ,BREAST cancer ,SOCIAL groups - Abstract
Many are concerned with the rise of the technology or information age. Part of this interest is generated by uncertainty regarding how this change in social landscape impacts other social processes. Studying social movements elucidates both the generation and resolution of conflicts particular to issues of science, technology and information. I propose a new framework through which we can understand social movements characteristic of the technology and information age: anti-scientization movements. These movements contest and democratize expert knowledge in order to achieve their goals. I hypothesize that these social movements have emerged to create institutions where science and knowledge is democratized in response to growing policy dependence on expert knowledge. In order to empirically explore the way such movements work, I compare the anti-dam movement (ADM) in Brazil and environmental breast cancer movement (EBCM) in the United States. Qualitative data in the form of interviews (128), ethnographic observations and document collection were used to study these movements. Despite the very different internal and contextual aspects of these movements, they both employ similar tactics and institutional forms to legitimize lay knowledge and reconstruct official discourse. This framework elucidates a growing phenomenon critical to social movement theorists, science studies and political scientists. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
362. Alliances and Divisions within the "Movement of Movements": Survey Findings from the 2005 World Social Forum.
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Reese, Ellen, Gutierrez, Erika, Herkenrath, Mark, Kim, Linda, and Petit, Christine
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SOCIAL movements ,DEMOCRACY ,ADMINISTRATIVE & political divisions ,SOCIAL groups - Abstract
Little systematic research has been done on the social characteristics, organizational affiliations, and views of the hundreds of thousands of people that attend the World Social Forum. This paper addresses these questions through an analysis of original survey data of 640 participants of the 2005 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Our findings have important implications for understanding the social bases of political divisions within the global justice movement and the potential role that the WSF may play in strengthening this movement and paving the way for global democracy. We found that most WSF participants were young, from Brazil and neighboring countries, expressed radical views, and actively participated in social movements. Most belonged to relatively privileged social groups; most were highly educated (a proxy measure for class), and "white" was the most common racial identity. Our analysis of our survey results suggest that respondents who were from the global north, white, highly educated, less than 55 years of age, and members of NGOs were more likely to hold reformist positions compared to other groups. We also found that respondents from the global north were more likely to favor global strategies for social change than respondents from the global south. This is likely the outcome of southern nations' long history of marginalization within, and bad experiences with, existing global institutions. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
363. Rethinking Norm Diffusion: Preliminary Observations from a Brazil Case Study.
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Mertus, Julie and Bratman, Eve
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ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *POLITICAL science , *SOCIAL movements , *NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations - Abstract
The article focuses on a study that seeks to draw on preliminary findings from an ongoing case study of environmental crises in Brazil to illustrate the continued explanatory power of the dominant models of norm diffusion in international relations and political science literature. It cites the relationship between social movements and domestic NGOs on international norms. It details the boomerang model of norm diffusion and the impact of an information cascade.
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- 2005
364. Brazil's Response to AIDS: Enveloped Society, Embedded State, Mobilized Civil Sphere.
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Darrah, Jennifer
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AIDS prevention ,LIFE expectancy ,HIV infections ,NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations - Abstract
The article cites a study which discusses Brazil's response to the problem of AIDS. In 1992, members of Brazil's National Commission on HIV/AIDS, including actors from government institutions, NGOs and universities, co-authored a letter of intent to the World Bank, asking for a grant for the purpose of strengthening their AIDS program. The World Bank lent a huge sum of money that helped Brazil achieve an increase in life expectancy for those living with HIV by 12 times. Moreover, statistics reveal that only half of the predicted cases of HIV have even appeared, due to successful prevention measures.
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- 2005
365. Black Social Movements in Brazil: The State, Political Identity and Visions for the Future.
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Bell, Joyce
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ACTIVISTS ,SOCIAL movements ,PUBLIC demonstrations ,SOCIAL psychology ,SOCIAL change - Abstract
This exploratory project examines the development of Afro-Brazilian protest politics. I review the existing explanations for the relative lack of black movement formations in Brazil and offer a critique of state centered explanations of race based movements. Using event data and newspaper articles about race in Brazil, I explore patterns and trends in Afro-Brazilian politics from 1985-2000 in an attempt to understand the level and nature of protest politics among black Brazilians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
366. Democratic Decay Through Democratizing Success: The Limits of Social Movement Unionism in Brazil.
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Sluyter-Beltrão, Jeffrey B.
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DEMOCRATIZATION , *POLITICAL science , *SOCIAL movements , *LABOR unions - Abstract
This paper examines the evolution of Brazil's New Unionism in the context of regime consolidation. Changes in democratic practice are understood as by-products of factional responses to challenges posed by broad economic and political transitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
367. The Participatory Effectiveness of the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST).
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Rodriguez, Patricia
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SOCIAL movements , *SOCIAL policy , *AGRICULTURAL policy , *AGRICULTURAL development , *RURAL development , *LAND reform - Abstract
Discusses the participatory effectiveness of the Brazilian landless movement. Dynamics of the impact of the social movement on public policy; Impetus for agrarian reform in the country; Background of the passage of agrarian law.
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- 2004
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368. Globalization Times Two: Early Gay and Lesbian Electoral Activism in Brazil and Mexico.
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De la Dehesa, Rafael
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POLITICAL participation , *GAY rights movement , *SOCIAL movements , *REFORMS , *POLITICAL parties - Abstract
Focuses on the engagement in electoral activism by gay and lesbian liberation movements in Brazil and Mexico in 1982. Electoral reforms which were responsible for the legal registration of political parties on the left and their entry into electoral politics in Mexico; Establishment of the Rosario Ibarra Lesbian and Homosexual Support Committee; Electoral strategies that came to prevail both countries within social movement fields.
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- 2004
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369. The Brazilian Anti-Dam Movement: Constructing a New Arena of Communicative Action.
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McCormick, Sabrina
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SOCIAL movements ,SOCIAL sciences ,ACTIVISM ,DAMS - Abstract
This paper analyzes the anti-dam movement in Brazil, including its initiation, growth and current form. It argues that the anti-dam movement has constructed a new arena of communicative action to contest the construction of hydroelectric dams. The local meetings and organizing conducted by the anti-dam movement build this arena of communicative action to directly oppose governmental and corporate interests. As a result the anti-dam movement in Brazil has successfully halted the construction of many dams, including what would have been the largest dam in Latin America. It has garnered resettlement packages for previously ignored communities, and has altered discourse around dam-planning. Its instigation and success has been strongly shaped by governmental policy, institutions and connections. It has also relied heavily on an organizational form of internal cross-class alliances in the form of professionalized non-governmental organizations and grassroots groups. This paper argues that the scientization of governmental decision-making has been used to rationalize dam-building and has hence stimulated the movement?s attempt to create new forms of communicative action. It additionally argues that these norms and their supporting governmental structures shape activism. This paper is the first assessment of one of the most important transnational social movements in the world; one that played a critical role in initiating the global anti-dam movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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370. Grievances, Resources, and Coalitional Choices: The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) in Brazil.
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Sinek, Wendy Muse
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INTERNATIONAL alliances , *COALITIONS , *CHOICE (Psychology) , *SOCIAL movements , *SOCIAL theory - Abstract
Explores the dimensions, impacts and challenges associated with coalitional choice within the social movement theory in Brazil. Risks and trade-offs linked to alliance patterns; Schematic representation of the cycle of coalition choices; Pattern of alliances in the history of Landless Rural Workers' Movement.
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- 2004
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371. Social Movements and Democratizing Knowledge: A Case Study of the Brazilian Anti-Dam Movement.
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McCormick, Sabrina
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SOCIAL movements ,SOCIAL participation ,ENVIRONMENTAL policy ,DAMS ,RIVER ecology - Abstract
Abstract The post-industrial dependence on experts and its related power imbalances has engendered social movement demands for participation. Given the reliance of environmental policy on science and expert knowledge, one such key group of movements and collaborations is those that attempt to democratize environmental research and slow the environmental degradation. This paper examines the social movement and resultant participatory methods that democratize environmental knowledge. I conceptualize the democratization of knowledge as the process through which local, lay perspectives become legitimate in science and/or expert knowledge to the point that they affect political decision-making. Theorists have pointed to movement contestation of research and technology as characteristic of new social movements, but have yet to empirically study this movement tactic. The environmental movement is the classic case to contest knowledge in order to improve policy. This paper examines the movement of dam-affected people in Brazil to understand its 1) strategies, ideologies and alliances, 2) resultant research collaborations between experts and lay people, and 3) the affects of these collaborations on policy. Based on interviews with movement actors, government officials, and scientific experts, I find that this movement has been effective in constructing new environmental research that serves as an alternative to that conducted by industry proposing potential dams. This paper is therefore an examination of the processes involved therein. Such projects play a pivotal role in the achievement of movement goals. The anti-dam movement in Brazil provides an empirical instance in which to explore how movements contest and consequently shape research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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372. Abortion Politics and Policy in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.
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Htun, Mala
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ABORTION , *BIRTH control , *PUBLIC health , *SOCIAL movements , *REPRODUCTIVE rights , *WOMEN'S rights - Abstract
Why hasn?t abortion been liberalized in Latin America? The first part of this article analyzes the experiences of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile in an attempt to answer this question, focusing on the rise of the reproductive rights movement, activism of the Vatican and anti-abortion movements, and the peculiar sociology of abortion in the region. The next part explores how differences in the position of the president on abortion and the availability of congressional allies for the reproductive rights movement affected the political climate surrounding abortion in the three countries in the 1990s and early 2000s. In Brazil, the most liberal country, a ?legal abortion? movement has emerged to encourage public health services to perform abortions on women who have been raped. In Argentina, there is almost no discussion about liberalizing abortion, but conservative attempts to ban abortion under all circumstances have failed. Chile, where abortion is illegal under all circumstances, is completely closed to discussions about liberalizing abortion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
373. Democratization and the Left: Comparing East Asia and Latin America.
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Wong, Joseph
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NEW left (Politics) , *RADICALISM , *SOCIAL movements - Abstract
This paper examines the new left in Taiwan and South Korea and the renewed left in Brazil and Chile. I contend that the left can no longer best understood in terms of antiquated sociological or economic categories. The new left in East Asia and Latin America is a political project and its politics are embedded in the processes of democratic transition. My argument is simple: (i) Democratization, a variable process of change, leads to different patterns of new left organization. (ii) Meanwhile, the introduction of democracy, a form of governance with universally shared features (irrespective of how the transition to democracy took place), promotes the moderation of the new left across all four cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
374. Chapter 5: A New Paradigm for Social Change: Social Movements and the Transformation of Policy for Street and Working Children in Brazil.
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Klees, Steven J., Rizzini, Irene, and Dewees, Anthony
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SOCIAL movements ,HOMELESS children ,ACTIVISTS ,CAPITALISM ,SOCIAL change - Abstract
The article examines the unusual transformation of national policy in Brazil brought about by the social movement and its broader implications for social change. Understanding what has happened in Brazil is especially significant because it is about what we and others see as the only possible route for progressive social change--through the political action of social movements instead of, as the dominant wisdom has long contended. The poverty and problematic future facing street and working children is perhaps the worst manifestation of the persistent inequalities of a global capitalist economy--these children are the poorest of the poor and they are provided with few opportunities to improve their situation. The overall economic situation offers few educational or work opportunities for vast numbers of children, youth, and adults. This lack of opportunities combined with an urban environment of disorienting and disordered growth and easy access to firearms and drugs has led to an explosion of violence where young people have again borne a heavy burden. The challenge is for people to realize they can make this so and to develop a global social movement that demands needed changes.
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- 2000
375. PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL E DIREITOS HUMANOS: A ATUAÇÃO DA PSICOLOGIA DIANTE DA DITADURA MILITAR E DAS MANIFESTAÇÕES ATUAIS NO BRASIL.
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Camargo Costa, Juliana, Alves de Oliveira, Patrícia, and de Andrade Ferrazza, Daniele
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SOCIAL psychology research , *SOCIAL movements , *DICTATORSHIP , *HUMAN rights , *CAREER development - Abstract
This work aims to analyze the acting and positioning of psychology professionals in respect to social movements both during periods of repression of the military dictatorship as in the recent Brazilian manifestations that accompanied the movement of "Free Pass". For this study the area of Social Psychology, was used as a methodological procedure bibliographic research literature and current news reports on the subject. We conclude that although there are opportunities to participate in psychology spaces, complaint against the violation of human rights and debates for materialisation of rights and citizenship conquest, as in current manifestations, and also there is difficulty filling those spaces marked by many professionals for corporate trend would be accommodated in their own professional status only standying up to confrontation exercising to ensure the stability and consolidation of the social image of profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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376. Urbanização capitalista e resistência indígena no Brasil: o caso do Santuário dos Pajés.
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Penhavel, Pedro
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NEIGHBORHOODS ,BRAZILIAN politics & government ,SOCIAL conditions in Brazil ,SUSTAINABLE development ,SOCIAL movements - Abstract
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- 2014
377. Contradictions of Green Development: Human Rights and Environmental Norms in Light of Belo Monte Dam Activism.
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BRATMAN, EVE Z.
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DAMS , *HYDROELECTRIC power plants , *SOCIAL advocacy , *SOCIAL movements , *ENVIRONMENTAL activism , *ENVIRONMENTALISM , *HUMAN rights , *HISTORY ,INDIGENOUS peoples of Brazil - Abstract
This paper offers a historical examination of the ways in which advocacy strategies and tactics have shifted in relation to political opportunities, using a case study of a hydroelectric dam project in the Brazilian Amazon, known as the Belo Monte Dam. Drawing on over three decades of resistance by transnational activist coalitions, the paper looks at how new tactics and political alignments have altered the dynamics of activism and norm diffusion in Brazilian domestic environmental, human rights and development policies. The paper argues that current theories of norm diffusion inadequately explain backslides and tend to underestimate the complexity of domestic political alignments. The case adds political insight to our understanding of the relationship of transnational advocacy strategy to environmental and human rights political realities in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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378. A relação trabalho/educação no desafio de superar o desemprego permanente.
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Paludo, Conceição, de Cássia Fraga Machado, Rita, and Gritti, Silvana Maria
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WORK & education , *UNEMPLOYMENT , *SOCIAL movements , *EQUALITY & society , *ECONOMIC development ,UNEMPLOYMENT associations - Abstract
This paper presents the results of a research-action project conducted from 2009 to 2011 along with the Unemployed Workers' Movement (MTD, acronym in Portuguese), in five districts of Pelotas city, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It aims to contribute to this organization so that it continues the educational process and the organization aiming at more effective solutions to the issue of unemployment. To achieve this goal, the theoretical framework of this paper involves authors who have debated the relationship between work and education, such as Marx, Fernandes, Frigotto, Antunes and Saviani. Its theoretical contribution comprises the following: (a) the categories of dependent capitalism and unequal and combined development; (b) the relationship between work and education. At the end of the analysis of the categories that emerged throughout this study, it is concluded that the Movement should strengthen an educational process via work and organization, taking into consideration the public sphere at its three levels, in order to change the space and site conditions: housing, sanitation and health, and ultimately the relationship between work and education. This line of action should be strong and permanent. The workers' organization in cooperatives, associations and production groups is essential for them to resist the widespread problem of unemployment in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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379. Black Brazil Never Slept.
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Jensen, Katherine
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WOMEN sociologists ,PUBLIC demonstrations ,SOCIAL movements ,POLITICAL participation ,BLACK Brazilians ,SOCIAL conditions of Black people - Abstract
Analyzing the media coverage of the 2013 Brazil protests, sociologist Katherine Jensen uncovers that violence against white women became the rallying cry for popular political action, while black mobilization was depoliticized as violent chaos and violence against blacks was ignored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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380. Juventude, educação e cidadania: os desafios da participação social e política.
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Zitkoski, Jaime José and Hammes, Lúcio Jorge
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YOUTH ,EDUCATION research ,POLITICAL participation ,CITIZENSHIP ,SOCIAL movements - Abstract
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- 2014
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381. HISTORY, MEMORY, AND UTOPIA IN THE MISSIONARIES' CREATION OF THE INDIGENOUS MOVEMENT IN BRAZIL (1967-1988).
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PHILIPPE-BELLEAU, JEAN
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CHRISTIAN missions , *MISSIONARIES , *SOCIAL movements , *INDIGENOUS peoples , *HISTORY of collective action , *20TH century history , *HISTORY , *TWENTIETH century , *SOCIETIES , *RELIGION ,INDIGENOUS peoples of Brazil ,JESUIT history - Abstract
The article focuses on the role of missionaries in the indigenous movement in Brazil between 1967 and 1988. The author discusses the history of the Indigenist Missionary Council or Conselho Indigenista Missionario (CIMI) as part of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops, explores the relationship between CIMI and pan-Indian collective action, and examines the role of Jesuits within the movement.
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- 2014
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382. The Globalization of Social Movements: Exploring the transnational paradigm through collection action against neoliberalism from Latin America to the Occupy movement.
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McKANE, RACHEL
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GLOBALIZATION & society , *COLLECTIVE action -- Social aspects , *SOCIAL movements , *OCCUPY protest movement , *PROTEST movements , *TRANSNATIONALISM , *NEOLIBERALISM - Abstract
The main thrust of this paper is that social movement theories, which have traditionally conceived of the various aspects of social movements through the lens of the nation-state, would do well to further adopt and integrate a transnational paradigm. The paper examines anti-neoliberal social movements, and the case of the Occupy movement in particular as an illustration that we cannot make sense of the emergence, actors, strategies, tactics, or goals of social movements without incorporating the context and salience of transnationalism in today's global landscape. The paper attempts to justify the above thesis by demonstrating the nuanced linkages, similarities, and dissimilarities between the collective actions across Latin America (the Landless Workers' Movement in Brazil and the Zapatista Movement in Mexico), the Global Justice Movement, and the Occupy movement. The hopeful novelty presented in this paper is that an intricate analysis of the Occupy movement makes clearer than ever before the significance of transnationalism in understanding contemporary social movements. It is through the specifics of the Occupy movement, which are given particular emphasis, that we can further refine the proper role of transnationalism in social movement theory. The movements assessed in this paper, connected by grievances brought on by neoliberal globalization, can be conceived as part of a web of spatiotemporal relations. However, movements may still be very nationalistic and dependent on culture. It is important to recognize transnational aspects when analyzing social movements, but also make distinctions between and within various movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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383. Rebeliões de classe média? Precariedade e movimentos sociais em Portugal e no Brasil (2011‑2013).
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ESTANQUE, ELÍSIO
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MIDDLE class ,PRECARIOUS employment ,YOUTH employment ,SOCIAL movements ,ECONOMICS ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
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384. A Time of Closure? Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil, after the Workers' Party Era.
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MELGAR, TERESA R.
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PARTICIPATORY democracy , *MUNICIPAL budgets , *POLITICAL participation , *SOCIAL movements , *DEMOCRATIZATION ,BRAZILIAN politics & government - Abstract
Participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil, has long been held up as a model of how grassroots social movements, in alliance with a Left party in power, have deepened democracy in a highly clientelistic context. But what happened to this democratic reform when the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party, PT), which supported this initiative while it held the mayorship of Porto Alegre for 16 years, lost political power? This article examines the shifting fortunes of the participatory budgeting process following the defeat of the Workers' Party in the 2004 local elections. It explores how and why succeeding local administrations weakened participatory budgeting amid the changing political configuration of Porto Alegre, underscoring the critical role played by considerable executive branch powers in the process. The article concludes by examining what questions this raises for the sustainability of local democratic reforms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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385. TRANSLATED ABSTRACTS.
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POLICE , *AUTHORITY , *COCA , *NEOLIBERALISM , *EMPLOYEE participation in management , *SOCIAL movements ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
The article presents abstracts of articles published in the current issue, discussing subjects such as authority in the civil police of São Paulo, Brazil, the coca leaf in Bolivia during neoliberalism, and the social movement of self-management of business enterprises in Argentina.
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386. AUTORITARISMO, ABERTURA POLÍTICA E MOVIMENTOS SOCIAIS: UMA CONTRIBUIÇÃO AO DEBATE SOBRE AS POSSIBILIDADES E OS LIMITES DA DEMOCRACIA NO BRASIL CONTEMPORÂNEO.
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da Silva, Márcia Pereira
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AUTHORITARIANISM , *POLITICAL doctrines , *SOCIAL movements , *DEMOCRACY - Abstract
The article analyzes Brazilian political opening in the mid-80s of XX century, in order to contribute to the current debate on the possibilities and limits of democracy in contemporary Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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387. REBELLION IN BRAZIL.
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SINGER, ANDRÉ
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PUBLIC demonstrations , *BUS fares , *PUBLIC transit , *SOCIAL movements , *SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
An essay which examines the social and political aspects of the protests against a bus fare hike in Brazil in June 2013 is presented. It outlines the social make-up of the people who participated in the demonstrations. It highlights the role of the Movimento Passe Livre (Movement for Free Passes) in organizing the first protests.
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388. O ATRASO DA HISTÓRIA: CAMPESINATO E ENGAJAMENTO (1964/1996).
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Menendes Motta, Márcia Maria
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PEASANTS , *SOCIAL movements , *AGRICULTURAL laws , *CONFLICT of laws , *PUBLIC welfare - Abstract
It is difficult to imagine the actual relevance of historical knowledge to social movements. Historians almost always refuse to conduct any kind of analysis on the historicity of rural struggles, arguing that, ultimately, history does not study the past to sell prophecies. We would, however, have to be particularly insensitive not to recognize the importance which history acquires in the legitimacy and legality of social movements, in particular those which were or are linked to the struggle for agricultural reforms. The issue, however, is far from simple for a series of reasons that I will attempt to explore in this article. In doing so, I analyze the subject of agricultural reform and the concept of the peasant during historic conjunctures from the 1960s to the 1990s. I depart from the presumption that it is possible to encounter several points of contact which explain the scant presence of history in academic reflections seeking to legitimize the role played by struggles in rural Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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389. A midiatização do ativismo nas coberturas do G1 e do Mídia Ninja.
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Aquino Bittencourt, Maria Clara
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INTERNET & activism ,FAVELAS ,MASS media influence ,SOCIAL movements ,SOCIAL media & society ,PUBLIC demonstrations - Abstract
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390. Raza y movimiento negro en Brasil en la primera mitad del siglo XX.
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González Zambrano, Catalina
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SOCIAL movements ,RACE discrimination ,RACISM ,SOCIAL isolation ,BLACK Brazilians - Abstract
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391. EM NOME DA ORDEM: A CULTURA POLÍTICA ANTICOMUNISTA NAS FORÇAS ARMADAS BRASILEIRAS: 1935-1985.
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Costa Teixeira, Mauro Eustáquio
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ANTI-communist movements ,SOCIAL movements ,POLITICAL culture ,CULTURE ,ARMED Forces - Abstract
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392. Interfaces e deslocamentos: feminismos, direitos, sexualidades e antropologia.
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Machado, Lia Zanotta
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL research ,SOCIAL movements ,WOMEN'S rights ,SEXUAL diversity ,GENDER identity - Abstract
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393. Limites e possibilidades da militância política em um movimento social rural de mulheres.
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Jacinto Salvaro, Giovana Ilka, de Souza Lago, Mara Coelho, and Wolff, Cristina Scheibe
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SOCIAL movements ,WOMEN ,RURAL women ,SUBJECTIVITY -- Social aspects ,SANTA Catarina (Brazil : State) politics & government ,POLITICAL participation ,SOCIETIES - Abstract
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394. Pluralidade da representação na América Latina.
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da Glória Gohn, Maria
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SOCIAL movements ,SOCIAL networks ,CIVIL society - Abstract
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395. As metamorfoses de um movimento social: Mães de vítimas de violência no Brasil.
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BRITES, JUREMA and FONSECA, CLÁUDIA
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SOCIAL movements , *MOTHERS of murder victims , *VIOLENCE , *SOCIAL classes , *NATIONAL security , *SOCIAL conditions in Brazil, 1985- , *GOVERNMENT policy ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
In this article, we describe the negotiations that accompanied the transformation of a Brazilian social movement (victims of urban violence - in particular, the Movement of Mothers) into a public policy of the Minister of Justice between 2007 and 2009. Our focus is on the perspective of the "mothers" who participated in this process - women whose children had been killed or "disappeared". The description of the this movement - the relation of the women with their political allies and various organizations of civil society, and the ultimate carry-over of the movement's demands into public policy - sheds light on the history of victims' movements in Brazil, highlighting the intersection of factors concerning gender, violence and social class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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396. Políticas públicas para pessoas idosas no Brasil: uma revisão integrativa.
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Andrade, Luana Machado, da Silva Sena, Edite Lago, Lemos Pinheiro, Gleide Magali, Meira, Edmeia Campos, and Pereira Lira, Lais Santana Santos
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GOVERNMENT policy ,LEGAL documents ,SELF-discrepancy ,SOCIAL movements ,AGING ,OLDER people - Abstract
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397. Criando comunidade: emoção, reconhecimento e depoimentos de sofrimento.
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Fonseca, Claudia and Maricato, Glaucia
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HANSEN'S disease patients ,REPARATIONS for historical injustices ,VICTIMS ,SUFFERING ,NARRATIVES ,SOCIAL movements ,PSYCHOLOGY ,LEGAL status of patients ,ACTIONS & defenses (Law) - Abstract
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398. Descontinuidades na história da produção do conhecimento em Psicologia Social brasileira.
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Guareschi, Neuza, dos Reis, Carolina, degas de Azambuja, Marcos A., and Hüning, Simone Maria
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SOCIAL psychology , *SOCIAL movements , *POLITICAL sociology , *SOCIOECONOMICS , *EDUCATION , *INTELLECTUAL life - Abstract
This article aims to problematize the history of knowledge production in the field of Social Psychology in Brazil. The data for analysis were the summaries of the Working Groups of Symposia of the Brazilian National Association of Research and Post-Graduation in Psychology since its beginning in 1988 until 2010, available on the official website of this association. In our analysis, we selected the statements that compose the discursive field of Social Psychology in Brazil. These discursive formations are mainly the social movements, politics and economy. By discussing these three points, we can visualize some practices of knowledge fields concerning the object of study of Social Psychology that have been sustained and legitimized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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399. Reframing the public in public education: The Landless Workers Movement (MST) and adult education in Brazil.
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Thapliyal, Nisha
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PUBLIC education ,LABOR movement ,ADULT education ,EDUCATION & politics ,PHILOSOPHY of education - Abstract
Education for rural Brazilians has historically been dominated by two imperatives: human capital and political patronage. For the last four decades, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) have maintained a struggle to democratise public education and democracy itself. In this article, I make a situated analysis of the educational politics of the MST for adult education. I focus on the time period between 1988 and 2002 to examine the ways in which the MST i) resisted neoliberal literacy initiatives, and ii) pressured the state to recognise and support their radical adult education philosophy and practice. I argue that MST educational politics embody possibilities for the democratisation of knowledge as well as democracy itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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400. Cortiços: A humilhação e a subalternidade.
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Kowarick, Lúcio
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SLUMS ,HUMILIATION ,SOCIAL structure ,SOCIAL movements - Abstract
The article analyzes the socio-economic conditions of slum tenements in Sāo Paulo, Brazil. It addresses the issues of humiliation and subalternity faced by people living in slum tenements and relates it with strategies of domination. It presents basic concepts for studying social movements in Brazil.
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