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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Beyond the Civil Society Agenda?: Participation and Practices of Governance, Governability, and Governmentality in Latin America
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Published:May 2017
Sonia E. Alvarez, 2017. "Beyond the Civil Society Agenda?: Participation and Practices of Governance, Governability, and Governmentality in Latin America", Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America, Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Agustín Laó-Montes
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Focusing on contemporary Latin American experiences and drawing principally on the case of Brazil, this essay traces the genealogy of civil society and analyzes how diverse currents of “civil society talk” converged to produce what this chapter calls the Civil Society Agenda: a hegemonic though contested set of normative and prescriptive assumptions about citizen participation that have deeply shaped the discourses and practices of both governments and social movements in the Americas. That agenda prescribes what actors operating in the space of civil society should do and how and to what end they should act and “participate.” The essay then turns to an exploration of the various ways in which civil society and civic participation are invoked by and implicated in diverse practices of government, namely, Governance, Governability, and Governmentality. The chapter ends with a consideration of how activists and scholars might unsettle and move beyond the reigning Civil Society Agenda.
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