Os limites às “políticas participativas” evidenciam a necessidade de se construir instrumentos culturalmente adequados de participação direta e efetiva dos grupos étnicos. English
The struggles of a variety of movements, peoples, communities and organizations have opened new and creative spaces for participation. Português
These protests did not oust the government of Peña Nieto, although they demanded the resignation of the president, but they did force the government to react and try to explain what had happened.
This spring, Barcelona has become, once again, the battleground for the radical soul of Europe.
In expecting social movements in the post-socialist countries to follow the same repertoire of action as, for instance, in western Europe or North America, we risk missing out on important forms of collective action.
What comes next for central and eastern Europe’s civil society and social movements? The trend is for new forms of social participation that are community-oriented.
While movements in Brazil and South Africa have been fueled by unrealized socio-economic expectations and by explosive growth in India, what they have most in common is the subordination of democracy to money.
One of the arguments is that as the crisis has hit the North, it is time for South-based activists to travel to teach their northern comrades how to deal with debt crisis and precarity.
Clearly, trade and finance are not organized, in Africa or the world at large, with a view to liberating a popular movement.
Around social thinkers from the South, who have not made it into the conventional sociological tradition, Connell proposes to build an alternative social science.
On the output side of Europe’s political system, we have an abdication of responsibility by representative institutions in the face of citizens’ demands. But the Greek elections mark a turning point.
