The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century Latin America. They show that most contemporary political activism in the region relies upon both confrontational collective action and civic participation at different moments. Operating within fluid, dynamic, and heterogeneous fields of contestation, activists have not been contained by governments or conventional political categories, but rather have overflowed their boundaries, opening new democratic spaces or extending existing ones in the process. These essays offer fresh insight into how the politics of activism, participation, and protest are manifest in Latin America today while providing a new conceptual language and an interpretive framework for examining issues that are critical for the future of the region and beyond.
Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Kiran Asher, Leonardo Avritzer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Andrea Cornwall, Graciela DiMarco, Arturo Escobar, Raphael Hoetmer, Benjamin Junge, Luis E. Lander, Agustín Laó-Montes, Margarita López Maya, José Antonio Lucero, Graciela Monteagudo, Amalia Pallares, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Ana Claudia Teixeira, Millie Thayer
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Interrogating the Civil Society Agenda, Reassessing Uncivic Political Activism
- Part I. Interrogating the Civil Society Agenda: Reflections on Brazil
- 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
- Part II. Mapping Movement Fields
- 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
- Part III. The Nexus of Civic and Uncivic Politics
- 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
- Part IV. Movements, Regimes, and Refoundations
- 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
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