The Porto Alegre Alternative
Author: Iain Bruce
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2004-09-20
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First English-language guide to the new form of democractic government pioneered in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Lanterna Rally
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Democratizing Access, Governance, and Knowledge
The Porto Alegre Experiment
Author: Marion Gret
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Around the world representative democracy is no longer the agency of popular will. In the US, elections are controlled by big money. In developing countries, neo-liberal economic policies have forced governments to dismantle basic services like health and"
Cynical Citizenship
Author: Benjamin Junge
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2018-07-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0826359450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This anthropological study of grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil’s leftist hotspot, focuses on gender, politics, and regionalism during the early 2000s, when the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) was in power. The author explores the ways community leaders make sense of official notions of citizenship and how gender, politics, and regional identities shape these interpretations. Junge further examines the implications of leaders’ deep ambivalence toward normative participation discourses for how we theorize and study participatory democracy, citizenship, and political subjectivity in Brazil and beyond.
Another World Is Possible
Author: William Fisher
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2015-05-14
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1783605200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 2001 the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The meeting was viewed by many at the time as a new manifestation of the global Left, a people's opposition to the World Economic Forum that stood as the first real front to global capitalism since the collapse of the Soviet Union. While many activists and intellectuals on the left have since become deeply critical of the Forum, newer movements, such as Occupy, the Arab Spring and the indignados, have built upon its successes and innovations. Another World is Possible is the original collection of essays and demands from the heart of the ‘movement of movements’. Based on the work of the first two annual meetings of the WSF, this classic collection not only set out the initial aims of the movements that came together, it also paved the way for the theoretical study of new social movements, their multiple and participatory character. Today, as many crises affect all our lives, it is time to revisit the original demands of a global solidarity movement, united in its determination to fight against the concentration of wealth, the proliferation of poverty and inequalities, and the destruction of our earth, and to reconstitute a global left.
Alternatives
Author: Immanuel Wallerstein
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-03
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1317263936
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Immanuel Wallerstein draws on a lifetime of study of long-term historical change to shed light in his newest book on the consequences of the recent, significant turn in U.S. foreign and economic policies. Alternatives shows how the U.S. has been in decline since the 1970s and how these longer trends dovetail with current Bush administration policies, which he describes as an attempt to reverse the decline in ways that are disastrous to the future of the country and the world. The book's middle section is a log of insightful commentaries written between 2001 and 2004 detailing how the Bush administration has broken the pattern of foreign policies set by six presidents from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton. Wallerstein suggests that a threshold has been crossed that will make it difficult for future presidents to practice the kind of 'soft' multilateralism in foreign policy they have used in the past and maintain effective alliances. He also shows, surprisingly, why 'globalization' already is dead, especially in terms of the United States' ability to dominate economically in the manner that it has since WWII. He calls for a major revision of U.S. policies, and not an attempt merely to return to the pre-Bush foreign policy. In conclusion, Wallerstein's visionary book speaks to the challenges the U.S. must face if it is to play a meaningful and progressive role in the world-system.
The Dictionary of Alternatives
Author: Doctor Martin Parker
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-07-18
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 1848136471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern them because they have no choices. This dictionary provides those who disagree with the evidence. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century.
En"gender"ing Citizenship and Militancy
A Descriptive Account of the Municipality and City of Porto Alegre Capital of the State of Rio Grande Do Sul
Author: Porto Alegre (Municipality and City of)
Publisher:
Published: 1904
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Another World is Possible
Author: William F. Fisher
Publisher: London ; New York : Zed Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many believe that there are no alternatives to globalization as we know it--with its world of giant corporations in the driving seat, dominating a "free" market in reality shaped in accordance with their dictates, and elevating economics over all other human considerations and values. But there are alternatives. And the global justice movement is giving voice to them. In this remarkable collection, the compilers have brought together some of the most important themes and voices which these rapidly growing, diverse citizens' movements have expressed at the World Social Forum which gathers each year in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
