scholarly journals Contexto sociopolítico brasileiro da advocacia e das práticas de insurgência

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Luiz Otávio Ribas
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Recent Period ◽  
Sociopolitical Context ◽  
Popular Movements ◽  
Law And Social Movements ◽  
The Relationship

Para uma sociologia da insurgência, envolve-se o contexto sociopolítico da advocacia para compreender como as práticas de insurgência modificam o Direito. O protagonismo dos movimentos populares na América Latina pode ser mais bem estudado com a aproximação aos advogados populares envolvidos na defesa de suas causas. Esta agenda de pesquisa serve para a reflexão sobre a relação entre direito e movimentos sociais e a ação junto a esses atores em um contexto de insurgência e contrainsurgência, próprio do período recente do contexto brasileiro. A advocacia popular é estudada com base em entrevistas e pesquisa em acervo profissional dos advogados, como uma possibilidade de atuação em apoio às práticas de insurgência.  Brazilian sociopolitical context of advocacy and insurgent practices The sociopolitical context of advocacy is involved to understand how insurgency practices modify law, for a sociology of insurgency. The protagonism of popular movements in Latin America can be better studied by approaching popular advocates involved in the defense of their causes. This research agenda serves to reflect on the relationship between law and social movements, the action of these actors in a context of insurgency and counterinsurgency, typical of the recent period of the Brazilian context. The popular advocacy is studied based on interviews and research in the professional documents of lawyers, as a possibility to act in support of insurgency practices. 

scholarly journals Social movements and the law: the legal group inside the occupation of Porto Alegre city council in 2013

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-219
Author(s):  
Fiammetta Bonfigli ◽  
Germano Andre Doederlein Schwartz ◽  
Fabricio Pontin
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
City Council ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Law And Social Movements ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

This work is part of the research project developed by the Observatory on New Social Movements and Law in Brazil at La Salle University, focusing in the city of Porto Alegre and on the occupation of the City Council on July of 2013, which is placed in the context of the protests against the increase of bus fares and for free fare, attempting to understand the relationship between the political organization of the Bloco de Lutas pelo Transporte Publico and its legal group during the eight days of City Council occupation. We conducted semi-structured interviews with members of the occupation in order to clarify the dynamics in the movement and its understanding of the relationship between law and social movements, highlighting the deferment of the eviction order and the elaboration of two Bills as fundamental moments of the relationship between the collective organization of the occupation and its legal team. Este artículo forma parte de un proyecto de investigación desarrollado por el Observatorio de Nuevos Movimientos Sociales y Derecho de la Universidad La Salle de Brasil. Nos centramos en la ciudad de Porto Alegre y en la ocupación de su ayuntamiento en julio de 2013, en el contexto de las protestas contra el aumento de las tarifas de autobús y a favor del transporte gratuito. Intentamos comprender la relación entre la organización política del Bloco de Lutas pelo Transporte Publico y su grupo jurídico durante los ocho días que duró la ocupación. Realizamos entrevistas semiestructuradas con miembros de la ocupación para aclarar las dinámicas del movimiento y cómo entendía la relación entre derecho y movimientos sociales, destacando el aplazamiento de la orden de desalojo y la elaboración de dos leyes como momentos fundamentales de la relación entre la organización colectiva de la ocupación y su equipo jurídico.

scholarly journals A práxis da assessoria jurídica popular como vetor para o estudo da relação entre Direito e movimentos populares: ensaio sobre o Direito insurgente

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Ricardo Prestes Pazello
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Law And Social Movements ◽  
The Relationship

O presente ensaio procura apresentar a práxis da assessoria jurídica popular (AJP) a partir da experiência histórica da construção da concepção do Direito insurgente elaborada por advogados populares brasileiros. Tomando como referência os escritos de Miguel Pressburger, é possível visualizar o lugar da relação entre direito e movimentos populares, a qual está intimamente relacionada com a recepção da educação popular na AJP. Para contextualizar o debate, o texto apresenta um breve balanço histórico da AJP, bem como suas principais modalidades e uma interpretação a respeito de seus fundamentos, desde uma perspectiva crítica oriunda do marxismo. The Praxis of Popular Advocacy as a Vector for the Study of the Relationship between Law and Social Movements: the case of Insurgent Law This essay aims to present the practice of “assessoria jurídica popular – AJP” (Popular Advocacy), based on the historical experience of construction of the Insurgent Law elaborated by Brazilian popular lawyers. By reference to the writings of Miguel Pressburger, it’s possible to outline the place of the relationship between Law and Social Movements, which is closely related to the reception of popular education in AJP. Contextualizing the debate, the text presents a brief historical account of AJP as well as a typology, and an interpretation about its foundations, from a critical perspective derived from Marxism. 

Left Governments and Social Movements in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Larrabure
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Party System ◽  
New Left ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
Traditional Structures ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between social movements and left governments in Latin America since the postwar period has evolved from top-down relationships of populism and vanguardism to more contemporary attempts to blend new social movement practices of horizontalism and direct democracy with the hierarchical structures of the capitalist state and the party system. This evolution represents a long and unfinished transformation in the character of popular struggles, which today stands at the crossroads between referring back to more traditional structures of resistance, and pushing forward to the creation of a new left that can feature radical democratic participation from below as its centerpiece.

scholarly journals Neoliberalization, De-democratization, and Populist Responses in Western Europe, the US, and Latin America

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1173-1187
Author(s):  
John Brown
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
The Us ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Popular Movements ◽  
The Impact

This article argues that multipronged de-democratization processes over the course of neoliberal projects fostered unstable democratic equilibria in Western and Latin American democracies, opening space for populist leaders and parties to emerge. To comprehend the variation in the nature of populists that gained support, the form of neoliberalization process in each region and the consequent impacts on traditional party systems is accounted for. Moreover, the impact of region-specific factors on populist forms such as economic crises, immigration levels, and the existence of progressive social movements are accounted for. The conflux of neoliberal de-democratization, austerity, and immigration fostered a conservative nativist-populism in Western cases. In Latin America, neoliberal de-democratization and austerity, in the presence of powerful popular movements, witnessed the emergence of a more progressive populism.

scholarly journals Educar para libertar: Las propuestas educacionales de los Sem-Terra en Brasil en la década de 1990

2018 ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Clécio Ferreira Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Educational Reforms ◽  
Educational Project ◽  
Educational Ideology ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Autonomous Schools ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

ResumenEl análisis de la ideología educacional del Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST) en Brasil, en la década del noventa, y de su proyecto pedagógico en las escuelas autónomas de sus asentamientos, abre la posibilidad de comprender los fundamentos que orientan la relación entre Educación y Movimientos Sociales. La documentación histórica y educacional del MST utilizada para este estudio está localizada en el Centro de Documentación e Memoria (CEDEM) de la UNESP. Entre los documentos utilizados más importantes están: la Série Formação, Cadernos de Educação, Boletins Educacionais y las colecciones Fazendo História, Fazendo Escola y Pra Soletrar a Liberdade. El artículo presenta un breve resumen histórico de las reformas educacionales en América Latina que influenciaron directamente la educación oficial brasileña en los noventa. Es en ese contexto que se desarrolla el proyecto educacional del MST al cual el trabajo pone su atención.Palabras clave: educación, movimientos sociales, Sem-Terra, Brasil.Education for freedom: Educational proposals by the Sem-Terra in Brazil in the 1990sAbstractThe analysis of the educational ideology of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST) in Brazil in the Nineties and its pedagogical project at autonomous schools of its settlements, gives us the possibility of understanding the foundations guiding the relationship between Education and Social Movements. The historical and educational documentation of the MST used for this study is located in the UNESP Documentation and Memory Center (CEDEM). Among the most important documents used are: Série Formação, Cadernos de Educação, Boletins Educacionais and the Fazendo História, Fazendo Escola and Pra Soletrar a Liberdade collections. The article presents a brief historical summary of the educational reforms in Latin America that directly influenced Brazilian official education in the Nineties. In this context, the educational project of the MST is developed, which is the focus of this work.Keywords: Education, social movements, Sem-terra, Brazil.Educar para libertar: As propostas educacionais dos Sem-Terra no Brasil na década de 1990ResumoA análise da ideologia educacional do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST) no Brasil, na década de noventa, e de seu projeto pedagógico nas escolas autônomas de seus assentamentos, abre a possibilidade de compreender os fundamentos que orientam a relação entre Educação e Movimentos Sociais. A documentação histórica e educacional do MST utilizada para este estudo está localizada no Centro de Documentação e Memória (CEDEM) da UNESP. Entre os documentos mais importantes utilizados estão: a Série Formação, Cadernos de Educação, Boletins Educacionais e as coleções Fazendo História, Fazendo Escola e Pra Soletrar a Liberdade. O artigo a presentaum breve resumo histórico das reformas educacionais na América Latina que influenciaram diretamente a educação oficial brasileira nos anos noventa. Én esse contexto que se desenvolve o projeto educacional do MST ao qual o trabalho põe sua atenção.Palavras-chave: educação, movimentos sociais, Sem-terra, Brasil

Wenn stadtpolitische Bewegungen das Terrain des Staats betreten

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (191) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Diesselhorst
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
City Government ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Hierarchical Decision Making ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Hierarchical Decision ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article discusses the struggles of urban social movements for a de-neoliberalisation of housing policies in Poulantzian terms as a “condensation of the relationship of forces”. Drawing on an empirical analysis of the “Berliner Mietenvolksentscheid” (Berlin rent referendum), which was partially successful in forcing the city government of Berlin to adopt a more progressive housing policy, the article argues that urban social movements have the capacity to challenge neoliberal housing regimes. However, the specific materiality of the state apparatus and its strategic selectivity both limit the scope of intervention for social movements aiming at empowerment and non-hierarchical decision-making.

Violence, Social Movements, and Black Freedom Struggles

Contention ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
AK Thompson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Freedom Struggles

George Floyd’s murder by police on 26 May 2020 set off a cycle of struggle that was notable for its size, intensity, and rate of diffusion. Starting in Minneapolis, the uprising quickly spread to dozens of other major cities and brought with it a repertoire that included riots, arson, and looting. In many places, these tactics coexisted with more familiar actions like public assemblies and mass marches; however, the inflection these tactics gave to the cycle of contention is not easily reconciled with the protest repertoire most frequently mobilized during movement campaigns in the United States today. This discrepancy has led to extensive commentary by scholars and movement participants, who have often weighed in by considering the moral and strategic efficacy of the chosen tactics. Such considerations should not be discounted. Nevertheless, I argue that both the dynamics of contention witnessed during the uprising and their ambivalent relationship to the established protest repertoire must first be understood in historical terms. By considering the relationship between violence, social movements, and Black freedom struggles in this way, I argue that scholars can develop a better understanding of current events while anticipating how the dynamics of contention are likely to develop going forward. Being attentive to these dynamics should in turn inform our research agendas, and it is with this aim in mind that I offer the following ten theses.

Transnational Social Movements and Peaceful Change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Milcíades Peña
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Transnational Social Movements ◽  
Relational Perspective ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Interactive Dynamic ◽  
Dominant Treatment

The chapter discusses the relationship between social movements and peaceful change. First, it reviews the way this relationship has been elaborated in IR constructivist and critical analyses, as part of transnational activist networks, global civil society, and transnational social movements, while considering the blind sides left by the dominant treatment of these entities as positive moral actors. Second, the chapter reviews insights from the revolution and political violence literature, a literature usually sidelined in IR debates about civil society, in order to cast a wider relational perspective on how social movements participate in, and are affected by, interactive dynamic processes that may escalate into violent outcomes at both local and international levels.

Capitalism and the State in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Torres ◽  
Carina Borrastero
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The State ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Relationship

This article analyzes how the research on the relation between capitalism and the state in Latin America has developed from the 1950s up to the present. It starts from the premise that knowledge of this relation in sociology and other social sciences in Latin America has been taking shape through the disputes that have opposed three intellectual standpoints: autonomist, denialist, and North-centric. It analyzes how these standpoints envision the relationship between economy and politics and how they conceptualize three regionally and globally growing trends: the concentration of power, social inequality, and environmental depletion. It concludes with a series of challenges aimed at restoring the theoretical and political potency of the autonomist program in Latin American sociology.

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