Collective Action and Radicalism in Brazil : : Women, Urban Housing and Rural Movements / / Michel Duquette, Maurilio de Lima Galdino, Chairman Levy.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Rise of Public Protest -- 1 Social Movements and Radicalism: The Brazilian Context -- 2 Women's Movements: From Local Action to Internationalization of the Repertoire -- 3 The Housing Movement in the City of São Paulo: Crisis and Revival -- 4 The Return of Radicalism to the Countryside: The Landless Movement -- 5 Collective Action at the Crossroads: The Empowerment of the Left -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781442673090 9783110490954 |
DOI: | 10.3138/9781442673090 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Michel Duquette, Maurilio de Lima Galdino, Chairman Levy. |