Beyond Civil Society

Sonia E. Alvarez is Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology at New York University.AgustÍn LaÓ-Montes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

• Foreword / Arturo Escobar  ixPreface and Acknowledgments  xiiiIntroduction. Interrogating the Civil Society Agenda, Reassessing Uncivic Political Activism / Sonia E. Alvarez, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, AgustÍn LaÓ-Montes, Jeffrey W. Rubin, and Millie Thayer  1Part I. Interrogating the Civil Society Agenda: Reflections on Brazil1. A Century of Councils: Participatory Budgeting and the Long History of Participation in Brazil / Gianpaolo Baiocchi  272. Civil Society in Brazil: From State Autonomy to Political Interdependency / Leonardo Avritzer  453. The Making and Unmaking of a New Democratic Space / Andrea Cornwall  634. Uncivil Subjects, Uncivil Women: Civic Participation, Ambivalence, and Political Subjectivity among Grassroots Community Leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Benjamin Junge  81Part II. Mapping Movement Fileds5. Mapping the Field of Afro-Latin American Politics: In and Out of the Civil Society Agenda / AgustÍn LaÓ-Montes  1036. Social Movement Demands in Argentina and the Constitution of a "Feminist People" / Graciela Di Marco  1227. Politics by Other Means: Resistance to Neoliberal Politics / Graciela Monteagudo  1418. The "Gray Zone" Between Movements and Markets: Brazilian Feminists and the International Aid Chain / Millie Thayer  156Part III. The Nexus of Civic and Uncivic Politics9. "This is No Longer a Democracy . . .": Thoughts on the Local Referendums on Mining on Peru's Northern Frontier / Raphael Hoetmer  17910. From Afro-Colombians to Afro-Descendants: The Trajectory of Black Social Movements in Colombia, 1990–2010 / Kiran Asher  19911. In the Streets and in the Institutions: Movements-in-Democracy and the Rural Women's Movement in Rio Grande Do Sol / Jeffrey W. Rubin  21912. Refounding the Political: The Struggle for Provincialization in Santa Elena, Ecuador / Amaliea Pallares  238Part IV. Movements, Regimes, and Refoundations13. The Counterpoint Between Contention and Civic Collective Action in Venezuela's Recent Democracy / Margarita LÓpez Maya and Luis E. Lander  26114. Brazil: Back to the Streets? / Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ana Claudia Teixeira  28215.Monuments of (De) Colonization: Violence, Democracy, and Gray Zones in Bolivia after January 11, 2007 / JosÉ Antonio Lucero  29616 Beyond the Civil Society Agenda? Participation and Practices of Governance, Governability, and Governmentality in Latin America / Sonia E. Alvarez  316Conclusion. Uncontained Activism / Millie Thayer and Jeffrey W. Rubin  331References  339Contributors  369Index  373

"The individual case studies of Beyond Civil Society include rich detail that will be of interest to activists and scholars of social movements alike, and the book’s discussion of the Civil Society Agenda and its consequences is an important contribution to scholarship on Latin America, democracy, and collective action." (EIAL) "The authors of this important edited collection interrogate what they call the 'civil society agenda.' . . .  Beyond Civil Society thus offers a sober analysis of the effectiveness and degree of political autonomy of movements working with Pink Tide governments or international organizations." - Dolores Trevizo (Mobilization) “[A] fascinating anthology of participation and protest in Latin America…. Beyond Civil Society is a very welcome contribution to the often-unintegrated debates about civil society, on the one hand, and social movements, on the other.” - Anna Krausova (Latin American Research Review)