Beyond civil society: activism, participation, and protest in Latin America

Beyond Civil Society challenges current understandings of the politics of protest, activism, and participation by examining the ways in which social movements in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Latin America blur the boundaries between civil and uncivil activism and between activism carried out in state and the streets

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction. INTERROGATING THE CIVIL SOCIETY AGENDA, REASSESSING UNCIVIC POLITICALACTIVISM -- 1. A CENTURY OF COUNCILS. Participatory Budgeting and the Long History of Participation in Brazil -- 2 . CIVIL SOCIETY IN BRAZIL. From State Autonomy to Political Interdependency -- 3. THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF A NEW DEMOCRATIC SPACE -- 4. UNCIVIL SUBJECTS, UNCIVIL WOMEN. Civic Participation, Ambivalence, and Political Subjectivity among Grassroots Community Leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil -- 5. MAPPING THE FIELD OF AFRO-LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS. In and Out of the Civil Society Agenda -- 6. SOCIAL MOVEMENT DEMANDS IN ARGENTINA AND THE CONSTITUTION OF A "FEMINIST PEOPLE" -- 7. POLITICS BY OTHER MEANS. Resistance to Neoliberal Biopolitics -- 8. THE "GRAY ZONE" BETWEEN MOVEMENTS AND MARKETS. Brazilian Feminists and the International Aid Chain -- 9. "THIS IS NO LONGER A DEMOCRACY . . . " Thoughts on the Local Referendums on Mining on Peru's Northern Frontier -- 10. FROM AFRO-COLOMBIANS TO AFRO-DESCENDANTS. The Trajectory of Black Social Movements in Colombia, 1990–2010 -- 11. IN THE STREETS AND IN THE INSTITUTIONS. Movements-in- Democracy and the Rural Women's Movement in Rio Grande Do Sul -- 12. REFOUNDING THE POLITICAL. The Struggle for Provincialization in Santa Elena, Ecuador -- 13. THE COUNTERPOINT BETWEEN CONTENTIOUS AND CIVIC COLLECTIVE ACTION IN VENEZUELA'S RECENT DEMOCRACY -- 14. BRAZIL: BACK TO THE STREETS? -- 15. MONUMENTS OF (DE) COLONIZATION. Violence, Democracy, and Gray Zones in Bolivia after January 11, 2007 -- 16. BEYOND THE CIVIL SOCIETY AGENDA? Participation and Practices of Governance, Governability, and Governmentality in Latin America -- CONCLUSION. Uncontained Activism -- References -- Contributors -- Index

Beyond Civil Society challenges current understandings of the politics of protest, activism, and participation by examining the ways in which social movements in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Latin America blur the boundaries between civil and uncivil activism and between activism carried out in state and the streets