Institutionalization of rural social movements in the Lula government and the decline of land reform in Brazil: co-option, political identity, and agency

Nogueira, Aico Sipiriano

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“…However, the real transformative potential of participation and empowerment of local groups has also been critically examined by researchers, who emphasize how this can decontextualize and over-simplify local social structures (Eversole, 2003;Henry, 2004;Loker, 2000;Sesan, 2014). These groups sometimes express their agency by subverting the proposed objectives of an official or outside-determined project, showcasing their ability to mobilize their identity relationships effectively around specific issues (Gilmour et al, 2013;Sampson et al, 1997;Durham et al, 1997;Newman & Dale, 2005;Nogueira, 2018). Through this process strategies are created, and advantage taken of political opportunities, in support of their own demands for development, which are not always in line with officially defined objectives.…”

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Resilience of environmental policy amidst the rise of conservative populism

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Sustainability has for long been promoted as a medium for social and economic development, one that focuses on constant availability of natural assets and ecological amenities. By questioning the possibility of reaching a balanced and sustainable state of functioning for social-ecological systems, resilience improves the static framework of sustainability by acknowledging non-linear behavior of complex systems, inevitability of change, and consistent presence of uncertainty. At the core of sustainable development, environmental policy is embedded in the socio-spatial structures that constantly re-organize and breed uncertainty, such as political, economic, and climate uncertainty. These uncertainties create episodes of instability that shock the entire system including the structures of environmental protection. In this article, focusing on the aftermath of 2016 US presidential election and 2018 general election in Brazil, both broadly recognized as political shocks, we highlight the vulnerabilities of environmental protection structures to the rise of conservative populist movements. We attribute these vulnerabilities, partially, to the superiority of market-based instruments, as well as apolitical understandings of resilience under neoliberalism that overlook political instabilities and socio-spatial outcomes of neoliberal restructuring projects. In our assessment, political unpreparedness of sustainability against the right-wing onslaught in the US and Brazil further underlines the need for resilience theory to incorporate sources of political instability in order to protect the environment.

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The Institutionalisation of Social Movements: Co-Optation and Democratic Policy-Making

Lima

2020

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Over the past 30 years, urban policy in Brazil has undergone a major transformation, both in terms of regulatory frameworks and the involvement of citizens in the process of policy-making. As an intense process of institutional innovation and mobilisation for decent public services took place, academics started to consider the impact of institutionalisation on the autonomy of social movements. Using empirical evidence from a city in the northeast of Brazil, this article addresses the wider literature on citizen participation and social movements to examine specifically the problem with co-optation. I examine the risks linked to co-optation, risks that can undermine the credibility of social movements as agents of change, and explore the tensions that go beyond the ‘co-optation versus autonomy’ divide, an issue frequently found in the practices of social movements, in their dealings with those in power. In particular, this article explores the learning processes and contentious relationships between mainly institutionally oriented urban movements and local government. This study found that the learning of deliberative skills not only led to changes in the objectives and repertoires of housing movements, but also to the inclusion of new components in their objectives that provide room for creative agency and which, in some cases, might allow them to maintain their autonomy from the state.

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Institutionalization of rural social movements in the Lula government and the decline of land reform in Brazil: co-option, political identity, and agency

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

Climate Justice and Participatory Research

Climate Justice and Participatory Research

Resilience of environmental policy amidst the rise of conservative populism

The Institutionalisation of Social Movements: Co-Optation and Democratic Policy-Making

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