Democracy, Citizenship and Representation: Rural Social Movements in Southern Brazil, 1978-1990

Navarro, Zander

doi:10.2307/3338272

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“…5 A significant body of research has demonstrated that the renegotiation of national-level political alliances that takes place as part of democratic transitions has a profound impact on how movement-elite relations develop. This research suggests that the increase in intra-elite conflict that initiates transitions can create new opportunities for mobilisation and alliance building [Tarrow, 1994;Schneider, 1992, Navarro, 1994Mainwaring, 1986b;O'Donnell and Schmitter, 1986]. It may also lead to instances of institutional hosting.…”

Section: Approach: Elites and Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Social movements amidst democratic transitions: Lessons from the Brazilian countryside

Houtzager

2000

Journal of Development Studies

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Democratic transitions represent unique opportunities in which movements of the poor can coalesce, place their demands on the national agenda, and institutionalise their access to authoritative decision-making centres. The opportunities and constraints movements of the poor face during transitions, however, remain little understood and under-theorised. This study develops an analytic approach that links national-level democratisation processes to the local-level movement dynamics that make collective action possible, particularly the creation and reproduction of collective identities and organisational structures. The approach theorises how changing elite alliance patterns during transition cycles, and redefinition of institutional linkages that bind state and society, shape the opportunities and constraints movements face at successive stages of democratic transitions. The utility of this approach is demonstrated by examining the new unionism in rural Brazil, in that country's democratic transition during the 1980s.

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Section: Approach: Elites and Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Social movements amidst democratic transitions: Lessons from the Brazilian countryside

Houtzager

2000

Journal of Development Studies

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“…On the one hand, this gaze directed at the 'periphery' has been the witness to the evils of concentrated poverty in the urban landscape; on the other, it has led to the repetition of a stereotype among dwellers and outside communities. The problem in this process is not at having social issues define the periphery, but the degree to which this image has prevented any form of ownership or public recognition of peripheral voices (whoever one conceives they are) raising questions about a deficit in democracy that this broken interlocution between periphery and centre causes (Navarro, 1994;Martins, 2015). Since the 1970s, there has been a series of mediators, but these people or groups have barely inhabited the periphery or suffered its constraints.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The boundaries of the periphery are those of the country's inequality; it is where opportunities are lacking, a place of poor public services (Marques & Bichir, 2001) and where the local population is subject to threats from the police (Abramovay, 1999, 46;Souza & Sinder, 2007). The periphery has mirrored the idea of social debt that emerges not only between the centre and the suburbs of major metropolises, as represented by the favelas, but between the affluent south and impoverished north of the country (Navarro, 1994;Henriques, 2000;Pedrozo, 2013, Gohn, 1985. This paper invests in understanding the use of counter-mapping strategies as a way of disrupting some of the derogatory ideas that stem from the commonsense notion of the periphery.…”

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Disrupting the Old Periphery: Alternative Media, Inequality and Counter-Mapping in Brazil

Levy

2018

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture

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Media discourse on the periphery in Brazil has historically mirrored the country's socioeconomic divides. The periphery used to be where precarious dwellings predominate: a way of 'behaviour' of the poor, their social class, or an aspect at one's appearance. Semi-structured interviews conducted with alternative media producers based across the country have produced insights into many attempts to change a derogatory sense of the periphery through counter-mapping initiatives. Producers have geotagged their presence at the city's centre, contested the neutrality of maps, and appropriated surveillance images in semi-public spaces. While not an exhaustive exercise, this paper sees counter-mapping used to explore four distinct communicative strategies around the ethnic/racial divide, the cultural divide, the discourse of mobility, and the raising of awareness about emerging intersectional issues.

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“…The idea of citizenship, widely diffused in the contemporary discourse of popular movements in Latin America, entails both benefits and the guarantee that as a matter of right those benefits cannot be taken away; but it also emphasizes the exercise of citizenship by agents to secure recognition of their rights. The MST enables its adherents to exercise citizenship, in this view, by making possible their participation, from which their poverty, illiteracy, and subjection to powerful landlords have excluded them (Navarro 1994;Nunes 1993). Many sources describe the personal transformation of movement activists as a result of their participation.…”

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The MST and the Media: Competing Images of the Brazilian Landless Farmworkers' Movement

Hammond¹

2004

Lat. Am. polit. soc.

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For social movements, coverage in the media is a mixed blessing; but like many movements, the Brazilian Landless Farmworkers' Movement (MST) actively seeks it out. Treatment of the MST in the Brazilian media is analyzed here using the concept of frame. That treatment is determined by a complex interaction between media producers and movement activists. The frames adopted by those on each side influence public perception of the movement. This study identifies five such underlying frames (mostly in print media but with attention to a television soap opera based on the MST's activities) and examines the images of the movement that they present. Though the coverage often presents the MST in a favorable light, it does not necessarily encourage the goal of mobilization that the movement seeks to promote.

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Democracy, Citizenship and Representation: Rural Social Movements in Southern Brazil, 1978-1990

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Social movements amidst democratic transitions: Lessons from the Brazilian countryside

Social movements amidst democratic transitions: Lessons from the Brazilian countryside

Disrupting the Old Periphery: Alternative Media, Inequality and Counter-Mapping in Brazil

The MST and the Media: Competing Images of the Brazilian Landless Farmworkers' Movement

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