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
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
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