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NGOs as shadow pseudopublics

Grassroots community leaders' perceptions of change and continuity in Porto Alegre, Brazil

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ID2279365
AuthorsB Junge (0000-0002-4655-2148, SUNY New Paltz, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume39
Issue2
Pages407-424
Publication date2012-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01372.x
OpenAlexW1586653615
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited47

In this article, I examine changing meanings of participation for grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil, since the 2004 defeat of the Workers Party (PT) municipal government and a subsequent rise in the presence of both the private sector and NGOs in community politics. Through an ethnographic analysis of community politics in one municipal district, based on interviews I carried out in 2008, I argue that the changing relationship between state, private sector, and civil society has contributed to destabilization of the narrative of active citizenship hegemonic in earlier years, implanting a market-oriented, individualistic ethos in its place. [participation, citizenship, civil society, neoliberalism, NGOs, private sector, Brazil

Citizenship · Civil society · Ethos · Government (linguistics · Grassroots · Hegemony · Individualism · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Private sector · Shadow (psychology · Sociology · State (computer science · Development, Ethics, and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration · Social and Economic Solidarity

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