Foreword / Arturo Escobar  ix
Preface and Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. Interrogating the Civil Society Agenda, Reassessing Uncivic Political Activism / Sonia E. Alvarez, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Agustín Laó-Montes, Jeffrey W. Rubin, and Millie Thayer  1
Part I. Interrogating the Civil Society Agenda: Reflections on Brazil
1. A Century of Councils: Participatory Budgeting and the Long History of Participation in Brazil / Gianpaolo Baiocchi  27
2. Civil Society in Brazil: From State Autonomy to Political Interdependency / Leonardo Avritzer  45
3. The Making and Unmaking of a New Democratic Space / Andrea Cornwall  63
4. Uncivil Subjects, Uncivil Women: Civic Participation, Ambivalence, and Political Subjectivity among Grassroots Community Leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Benjamin Junge  81
Part II. Mapping Movement Fileds
5. Mapping the Field of Afro-Latin American Politics: In and Out of the Civil Society Agenda / Agustín Laó-Montes  103
6. Social Movement Demands in Argentina and the Constitution of a "Feminist People" / Graciela Di Marco  122
7. Politics by Other Means: Resistance to Neoliberal Politics / Graciela Monteagudo  141
8. The "Gray Zone" Between Movements and Markets: Brazilian Feminists and the International Aid Chain / Millie Thayer  156
Part III. The Nexus of Civic and Uncivic Politics
9. "This is No Longer a Democracy . . .": Thoughts on the Local Referendums on Mining on Peru's Northern Frontier / Raphael Hoetmer  179
10. From Afro-Colombians to Afro-Descendants: The Trajectory of Black Social Movements in Colombia, 1990–2010 / Kiran Asher  199
11. In the Streets and in the Institutions: Movements-in-Democracy and the Rural Women's Movement in Rio Grande Do Sol / Jeffrey W. Rubin  219
12. Refounding the Political: The Struggle for Provincialization in Santa Elena, Ecuador / Amaliea Pallares  238
Part IV. Movements, Regimes, and Refoundations
13. The Counterpoint Between Contention and Civic Collective Action in Venezuela's Recent Democracy / Margarita López Maya and Luis E. Lander  261
14. Brazil: Back to the Streets? / Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ana Claudia Teixeira  282
15.Monuments of (De) Colonization: Violence, Democracy, and Gray Zones in Bolivia after January 11, 2007 / José Antonio Lucero  296
16 Beyond the Civil Society Agenda? Participation and Practices of Governance, Governability, and Governmentality in Latin America / Sonia E. Alvarez  316
Conclusion. Uncontained Activism / Millie Thayer and Jeffrey W. Rubin  331
References  339
Contributors  369
Index  373

Kiran Asher

Leonardo Avritzer

Andrea Cornwall

Graciela DiMarco

Arturo Escobar

Raphael Hoetmer

Benjamin Junge

Luis E. Lander

Margarita López Maya

Jose Antonio Lucero

Amalia V. Pallares

Claudia Teixeira

"The writers in this edited volume make an important contribution to the study of political dynamics in Latin America. . . . This book is particularly relevant at this time, when an increasing array of groups (including blacks, women, indigenous groups, and LGBT groups) are participating in civic and uncivic actions. Recommended." — S. L. Rozman, Choice

“Beyond Civil Society is of its time, a moment to revisit and rethink the significance of transformative politics in the changed circumstances of the Latin American region.” — Maxine Molyneux, Journal of Latin American Studies

"The writers in this edited volume make an important contribution to the study of political dynamics in Latin America. . . . This book is particularly relevant at this time, when an increasing array of groups (including blacks, women, indigenous groups, and LGBT groups) are participating in civic and uncivic actions. Recommended." —S. L. Rozman, Choice

“Beyond Civil Society is of its time, a moment to revisit and rethink the significance of transformative politics in the changed circumstances of the Latin American region.” —Maxine Molyneux, Journal of Latin American Studies

"This innovative collection provides needed theory, methods, and case studies to explain the new and multiple ways that political participation combining civic and 'uncivil' forms can result in progressive, democratic reform in Latin America. By highlighting the tensions between how spaces of civic participation can suck the energy out of social movements and how unruly social movements with 'uncivil' participants can push neoliberal governments to become more inclusive, this collection takes a giant step forward in political theorizing. Beyond Civil Society offers a fresh look at present and future political strategies and forms of participation." — Lynn Stephen, author of, We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements

"A much-needed intellectual contribution to the discussion around civil society, the state, and social mobilization in Latin America, this collection illuminates the stakes in thinking about state-society relations at a time when citizenship is guaranteed to all but only accessible by some. This will become a classic." — Wendy Wolford, author of, This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil

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