Collective Action and Radicalism in Brazil - Women, Urban Housing and Rural Movements

Informationen zum Autor By Michel Duquette, Maurillo de Lima Galdino, and Chairman Levy Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Maurilio de Lima Galdino, Michel Duquette, Michel De Lima Galdino Duquette, Maurilo Galdino, Chairman Levy, Charmain Levy, Berengere Marques-Pereira, Florence Raes
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2005
• EAN: 9780802039071
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-3907-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy; Studies in Comparative Politic; Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy; Studies in Comparative Politic
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education