Rebecca Neaera Abers
Biographic Data
| ID | 262242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Neaera Abers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca Neaera |
| FAMILY NAME | Abers |
| SIGNATURE | ABERS R N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de Brasília |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 205 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Ativismo institucional: Criatividade e luta na burocracia brasileira
O burocrata. O ativista. A imagem que vem à cabeça é a do funcionário observando, da janela de sua sala com ar condicionado, um protesto na rua. E se os dois adjetivos se referirem à mesma pessoa? E se o Estado, tido como espaço frio e anônimo, guardar em seus bastidores o calor vibrante da experimentação, as controvérsias, as interpretações, os fios que se ligam a complexas redes internas e externas? E se as instituições, descritas pela ciência …
State–society relations in uncertain times: Social movement strategies, ideational contestation and the pandemic in Brazil and Argentina
This article compares how COVID-19 affected state–society relations differently in two relatively similar countries: Brazil and Argentina. Bringing together social movement theories and ideational institutionalism, we argue that variation in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic is explained by the different roles played by social movements inside and outside government and by contrasting ideational disputes. The extreme uncertainty introduced by th…
Bureaucratic Activism: Pursuing Environmentalism Inside the Brazilian State
This study explores the evolution of the Green Grants program, run by Brazil's Ministry of Environment, as a means for developing the concept of bureaucratic activism. When the Workers' Party first took office in 2003, many social movement actors joined the government, especially in that agency. After 2007, however, most of these activists left the government. At the same time, the ministry substituted thousands of temporary employees for permane…
Inclusive Development and the Asymmetric State: Big Projects and Local Communities in the Brazilian Amazon
In 2003, the Workers’ Party took federal office in Brazil on an agenda of social inclusion and popular participation. This paper explores attempts to implement that agenda in big infrastructure projects in the Amazon: the BR-163 road and the Belo Monte dam. We argue that overlapping inequalities (between social groups, within the bureaucracy and between territorial centre and periphery) result in uneven state capacities for implementing projects …
Nomeações políticas no Ministério do Meio Ambiente (2003-2013): Interconexões entre ONGs, partidos e governos
Neste artigo, exploramos mudanças na relação entre movimentos sociais e o governo do Partido dos Trabalhadores pela lente da política de nomeações de cargos de alto escalão no Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA) entre 2003 e 2013. Ao analisar as biografias profissionais e políticas de 147 nomeados, identificamos uma diminuição, ao longo do período, de nomeações de atores originários de movimentos sociais, acompanhada por um crescimento de nomeações…
Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics
Institutions don’t come into being by themselves. They have to be organized. On the basis of research from a decade-long, multi-site study of efforts to transform freshwater management in Brazil, Practical Authority asks how new institutional arrangements become operational in practice. New configurations of authority in a policy area very often have to be produced relationally, on the ground, in practice. New organizations have to acquire proble…
Inclusão, deliberação e controle: Três dimensões dedemocracia nos comitês e consórcios de bacias hidrográficas no Brasil
Este trabalho avalia o efeito democratizante da governança participativa na gestão das águas, a partir de uma pesquisa junto a 626 membros de 14 comitês e 4 consórcios de bacias hidrográficas. A noção de democracia é examinada segundo três noções: a) as arenas participativas devem promover a inclusão e combater a dominação das elites; b) a participação deve promover um processo dinâmico capaz de modificar a compreensão dos participantes; e c) as …
Mobilizing the State: The Erratic Partner in Brazil's Participatory Water Policy
Studies of participatory governance generally examine the input (deliberation, participation) and/or output (accountability) side of policy processes. Often neglected is the throughput: Does the state have the political and technical capacity to implement the decisions that deliberative bodies make? In this study of Brazilian river-basin committees, the authors find that activists inside and outside the state often must collaborate to overcome re…
Representando a diversidade: Estado, Sociedade E "Relações Fecundas" Nos Conselhos Gestores
Grande parte da literatura considera os conselhos gestores, que se difundiram em aos milhares, no Brasil, como arenas deliberativas cujo objetivo é expandir a participação direta dos cidadãos nas decisões públicas. Entretanto o modelo organizacional dos conselhos não corresponde ao conceito tradicional de democracia participativa por dois motivos: primeiro, porque os participantes representam supostamente organizações e não indivíduos, e, segundo…
Organizing for Governance: Building Collaboration in Brazilian River Basins
Muddy Waters: The Political Construction of Deliberative River Basin Governance in Brazil
Over the last two decades, numerous international conferences and organizations have espoused managing water as an economic good, involving participatory forums in systems of decentralized management at the river-basin level. In the 1990s, Brazil adopted such a model. More than a simple transfer of power from the national to the local level or from bureaucratic to deliberative decision-making, however, this process requires multi-directional powe…
Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil
Countless studies of citizen participation in public decisionmaking point out the limitations of direct democracy when it is transported from the realm of political theory into the "real world." In contrast, this book examines a case where an innovative city government gave major decisionmaking power to ordinary citizens on a large scale—and managed to survive and prosper. Since 1989, the government of Porto Alegre, Brazil, led by the Workers' Pa…
Mobilizing the State: The Erratic Partner in Brazil's Participatory Water Policy
Studies of participatory governance generally examine the input (deliberation, participation) and/or output (accountability) side of policy processes. Often neglected is the throughput: Does the state have the political and technical capacity to implement the decisions that deliberative bodies make? In this study of Brazilian river-basin committees, the authors find that activists inside and outside the state often must collaborate to overcome re…
Bureaucratic Activism: Pursuing Environmentalism Inside the Brazilian State
This study explores the evolution of the Green Grants program, run by Brazil's Ministry of Environment, as a means for developing the concept of bureaucratic activism. When the Workers' Party first took office in 2003, many social movement actors joined the government, especially in that agency. After 2007, however, most of these activists left the government. At the same time, the ministry substituted thousands of temporary employees for permane…
Nomeações políticas no Ministério do Meio Ambiente (2003-2013): Interconexões entre ONGs, partidos e governos
Neste artigo, exploramos mudanças na relação entre movimentos sociais e o governo do Partido dos Trabalhadores pela lente da política de nomeações de cargos de alto escalão no Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA) entre 2003 e 2013. Ao analisar as biografias profissionais e políticas de 147 nomeados, identificamos uma diminuição, ao longo do período, de nomeações de atores originários de movimentos sociais, acompanhada por um crescimento de nomeações…
State–society relations in uncertain times: Social movement strategies, ideational contestation and the pandemic in Brazil and Argentina
This article compares how COVID-19 affected state–society relations differently in two relatively similar countries: Brazil and Argentina. Bringing together social movement theories and ideational institutionalism, we argue that variation in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic is explained by the different roles played by social movements inside and outside government and by contrasting ideational disputes. The extreme uncertainty introduced by th…
Representando a diversidade: Estado, Sociedade E "Relações Fecundas" Nos Conselhos Gestores
Grande parte da literatura considera os conselhos gestores, que se difundiram em aos milhares, no Brasil, como arenas deliberativas cujo objetivo é expandir a participação direta dos cidadãos nas decisões públicas. Entretanto o modelo organizacional dos conselhos não corresponde ao conceito tradicional de democracia participativa por dois motivos: primeiro, porque os participantes representam supostamente organizações e não indivíduos, e, segundo…
Organizing for Governance: Building Collaboration in Brazilian River Basins
Inclusão, deliberação e controle: Três dimensões dedemocracia nos comitês e consórcios de bacias hidrográficas no Brasil
Este trabalho avalia o efeito democratizante da governança participativa na gestão das águas, a partir de uma pesquisa junto a 626 membros de 14 comitês e 4 consórcios de bacias hidrográficas. A noção de democracia é examinada segundo três noções: a) as arenas participativas devem promover a inclusão e combater a dominação das elites; b) a participação deve promover um processo dinâmico capaz de modificar a compreensão dos participantes; e c) as …
Muddy Waters: The Political Construction of Deliberative River Basin Governance in Brazil
Over the last two decades, numerous international conferences and organizations have espoused managing water as an economic good, involving participatory forums in systems of decentralized management at the river-basin level. In the 1990s, Brazil adopted such a model. More than a simple transfer of power from the national to the local level or from bureaucratic to deliberative decision-making, however, this process requires multi-directional powe…
Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil
Countless studies of citizen participation in public decisionmaking point out the limitations of direct democracy when it is transported from the realm of political theory into the "real world." In contrast, this book examines a case where an innovative city government gave major decisionmaking power to ordinary citizens on a large scale—and managed to survive and prosper. Since 1989, the government of Porto Alegre, Brazil, led by the Workers' Pa…
Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil
Countless studies of citizen participation in public decisionmaking point out the limitations of direct democracy when it is transported from the realm of political theory into the "real world." In contrast, this book examines a case where an innovative city government gave major decisionmaking power to ordinary citizens on a large scale—and managed to survive and prosper. Since 1989, the government of Porto Alegre, Brazil, led by the Workers' Pa…
Muddy Waters: The Political Construction of Deliberative River Basin Governance in Brazil
Over the last two decades, numerous international conferences and organizations have espoused managing water as an economic good, involving participatory forums in systems of decentralized management at the river-basin level. In the 1990s, Brazil adopted such a model. More than a simple transfer of power from the national to the local level or from bureaucratic to deliberative decision-making, however, this process requires multi-directional powe…
Organizing for Governance: Building Collaboration in Brazilian River Basins
Representando a diversidade: Estado, Sociedade E "Relações Fecundas" Nos Conselhos Gestores
Grande parte da literatura considera os conselhos gestores, que se difundiram em aos milhares, no Brasil, como arenas deliberativas cujo objetivo é expandir a participação direta dos cidadãos nas decisões públicas. Entretanto o modelo organizacional dos conselhos não corresponde ao conceito tradicional de democracia participativa por dois motivos: primeiro, porque os participantes representam supostamente organizações e não indivíduos, e, segundo…
Inclusão, deliberação e controle: Três dimensões dedemocracia nos comitês e consórcios de bacias hidrográficas no Brasil
Este trabalho avalia o efeito democratizante da governança participativa na gestão das águas, a partir de uma pesquisa junto a 626 membros de 14 comitês e 4 consórcios de bacias hidrográficas. A noção de democracia é examinada segundo três noções: a) as arenas participativas devem promover a inclusão e combater a dominação das elites; b) a participação deve promover um processo dinâmico capaz de modificar a compreensão dos participantes; e c) as …
Mobilizing the State: The Erratic Partner in Brazil's Participatory Water Policy
Studies of participatory governance generally examine the input (deliberation, participation) and/or output (accountability) side of policy processes. Often neglected is the throughput: Does the state have the political and technical capacity to implement the decisions that deliberative bodies make? In this study of Brazilian river-basin committees, the authors find that activists inside and outside the state often must collaborate to overcome re…
Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics
Institutions don’t come into being by themselves. They have to be organized. On the basis of research from a decade-long, multi-site study of efforts to transform freshwater management in Brazil, Practical Authority asks how new institutional arrangements become operational in practice. New configurations of authority in a policy area very often have to be produced relationally, on the ground, in practice. New organizations have to acquire proble…
Nomeações políticas no Ministério do Meio Ambiente (2003-2013): Interconexões entre ONGs, partidos e governos
Neste artigo, exploramos mudanças na relação entre movimentos sociais e o governo do Partido dos Trabalhadores pela lente da política de nomeações de cargos de alto escalão no Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA) entre 2003 e 2013. Ao analisar as biografias profissionais e políticas de 147 nomeados, identificamos uma diminuição, ao longo do período, de nomeações de atores originários de movimentos sociais, acompanhada por um crescimento de nomeações…
Inclusive Development and the Asymmetric State: Big Projects and Local Communities in the Brazilian Amazon
In 2003, the Workers’ Party took federal office in Brazil on an agenda of social inclusion and popular participation. This paper explores attempts to implement that agenda in big infrastructure projects in the Amazon: the BR-163 road and the Belo Monte dam. We argue that overlapping inequalities (between social groups, within the bureaucracy and between territorial centre and periphery) result in uneven state capacities for implementing projects …
Bureaucratic Activism: Pursuing Environmentalism Inside the Brazilian State
This study explores the evolution of the Green Grants program, run by Brazil's Ministry of Environment, as a means for developing the concept of bureaucratic activism. When the Workers' Party first took office in 2003, many social movement actors joined the government, especially in that agency. After 2007, however, most of these activists left the government. At the same time, the ministry substituted thousands of temporary employees for permane…
Ativismo institucional: Criatividade e luta na burocracia brasileira
O burocrata. O ativista. A imagem que vem à cabeça é a do funcionário observando, da janela de sua sala com ar condicionado, um protesto na rua. E se os dois adjetivos se referirem à mesma pessoa? E se o Estado, tido como espaço frio e anônimo, guardar em seus bastidores o calor vibrante da experimentação, as controvérsias, as interpretações, os fios que se ligam a complexas redes internas e externas? E se as instituições, descritas pela ciência …
State–society relations in uncertain times: Social movement strategies, ideational contestation and the pandemic in Brazil and Argentina
This article compares how COVID-19 affected state–society relations differently in two relatively similar countries: Brazil and Argentina. Bringing together social movement theories and ideational institutionalism, we argue that variation in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic is explained by the different roles played by social movements inside and outside government and by contrasting ideational disputes. The extreme uncertainty introduced by th…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Bureaucracy (3 works) · Citizen journalism (3 works)