...-universal adoption of participatory budgeting and other participatory forms of governance. It argues that if participation today is often divorced from political projects, participation has never been purely emancipatory, as some critics have suggested. Participation has always had competing goals...

... citizenship gender participatory budgeting ...

... citizenship gender participatory budgeting ...

... state civil society popular associations participatory budgeting Brazil ...

... state civil society popular associations participatory budgeting Brazil ...

... Brazil gender social movements participatory budgeting Movement of Rural Women Workers ...

... with the idea of councils in the early twentieth century, through to the seeming near-universal adoption of participatory budgeting and other participatory forms of governance. It argues that if participation today is often divorced from political projects, participation has never been purely emancipatory...

... This chapter examines how grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil, made sense of two civic participation initiatives linked to their city’s status as a “leftist utopia”—the World Social Forum and the Participatory Budget—during the final years of municipal government under...

...-in-democracy” means a movement from within which people can participate in institutions and institutional practices—elections, government agencies and commissions, labor union confederations, participatory budgeting—and also mobilize, protest, disrupt, and create new programs and practices outside of formal...

...Movements, Regimes, and Refoundations This chapter examines how grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil, made sense of two civic participation initiatives linked to their city’s status as a “leftist utopia”—the World Social Forum and the Participatory Budget—during the final...

... regime. “Movement-in-democracy” means a movement from within which people can participate in institutions and institutional practices—elections, government agencies and commissions, labor union confederations, participatory budgeting—and also mobilize, protest, disrupt, and create new programs...