In the past decade, Brazil has undergone a long series of political changes, culminating in the recent election of President Lula da Silva and his Workers' Party. These changes have come about through a landslide of social activism that is unprecedented in the country's history. The central topic of this book is an examination of three major recent movements within Brazil's civil society: the women's movement, the urban housing movement, and the landless peasant movement. All three are representative of a more general trend toward public protest and collectively indicate a shift in the internal dynamics of group identity within Brazil. The authors propose that the practices of power in Brazil are influenced by the expressions of a civil society now reorganized into a social movement and mobilized within a 'cycle of protest' that attains the level of a political alternative and that the present cycle of collective action is fuelled by the pitfalls of market reforms.
Authors
Maurilo Galdino, Charmain Levy Charmain, Michel Duquette, Maurilio de Lima Galdino, Chairman Levy
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 981.06
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- s-bl---
- ISBN
- 9781442673090 0802039073
- LCCN
- HN290.Z9
- LCCN Item number
- R3 2005eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xix, 217 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00600440 (OCoLC)752420221 (CaOOCEL)418717
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 10
- ABBREVIATIONS 14
- Introduction: The Rise of Public Protest 24
- 1 Social Movements and Radicalism: The Brazilian Context 46
- 2 Women’s Movements: From Local Action to Internationalization of the Repertoire 87
- 3 The Housing Movement in the City of São Paulo: Crisis and Revival 118
- 4 The Return of Radicalism to the Countryside: The Landless Movement 151
- 5 Collective Action at the Crossroads: The Empowerment of the Left 177
- CONTRIBUTORS 228
- INDEX 230
- A 230
- B 230
- C 230
- D 232
- E 232
- F 232
- G 232
- H 233
- I 233
- J 233
- K 233
- L 233
- M 234
- N 235
- O 235
- P 235
- Q 236
- R 236
- S 236
- T 237
- U 237
- V 238
- W 238
