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Collective Action and Radicalism in Brazil

By Michel Duquette

Collective Action and Radicalism in Brazil book

Collective Action and Radicalism in Brazil

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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.
Product details
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2005-09-03
Publication Date:
2005-09-03
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0802039073
ISBN13:
9780802039071
Weight:
494 g
Height:
160 cm
Width:
231 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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